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Plugins>Plugin Manager

Commandline: pim

 

Explanation

The WireCAD Plugin Manager shows:

•Loaded plugins.

•Unloaded plugins.

•Automatically Discovered plugins.

 

Only Enabled plugins are eligible to load/unload. Disabled plugins will not show here.

 

WireCAD Plugin Types

WireCAD has facility for two types of plugin:

1.Auto-discovered plugins. These plugins register themselves on application startup. They may or may not include a graphical user interface element.

2.Registered plugins. These plugins register themselves via a plugin manifest file located in the C:\users\public\documents\WireCAD\WireCAD9\Plugins\Active Plugins\*.wpi. Registered plugins may place a button somewhere in the WireCAD workspace, register a corresponding Commandline shortcut, and may respond to WireCAD events.

 

Related Topics

Included Plugins

WireCAD Software Development Kit (SDK)

Enable/Disable Plugins

 

 

Dialog Options

•Load - Loads the selected plugin from the Unloaded Plugins grid. This function does not apply to the Automatically Discovered plugins.

•Unload - Unloads the selected plugin from the Loaded Plugins grid. This function does not apply to the Automatically Discovered plugins.

•Rescan and Reload All - Unloads then rescans and reloads all plugins. Applies to all plugins.

 

Plugin Creation

•Add/Edit PI info (*.wpi) - Show the Add or Edit Plugins dialog to work with WireCAD Plugin Info files (wpi).

•Edit Plugin Code - Open your IDE to edit code. You will be prompted to enter a path to the IDE exe file.