[Gambas-user] Sub and Function hijack ?? is this possible ?

[Brian G]

I was thinking the programs install would create the plugin folder... And plugins would install them selves there.. after all the program must load them..
Oh well what do I know.
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Thanks
Brian Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 01:35PM -08:00 from olivier coquet  ocoquet at 3d-phenomen.fr :

>Hi Brian, thanks for your suggestions,
>
>For me a plugin is developed later than
>      program, Program can't know what plugin will make.
>For the folder, I think than the
>      component folder is always known by Gambas and a program which run
>      on every version of gambas can always find this folder. An
>      absolute path to application can change with user configuration.
>More, using the component folder permit
>      to create installation package with gambas ide as component, we
>      are sure all work perfectly.
>
>regards
>Olivier C.
>
>Le 17/02/2021 à 20:53, Brian G a
>      écrit :
>>See the comments by Ben. I
>>        agree that plugins are just components or libraries.
>>I see no difference. I suspect that each application
>>        would have a different need in respect to the plugin. So not
>>        sure just how a single framework would work.
>>It would seem that understanding how it works clearly
>>        is enough for other users.
>>I agree with Ben that the plugins for an application
>>        should be in something like /user/share/myapp/plugins/ 
>>This is so the app is not dependent on the gambas structure.
>>        It's bad form for an app to be put into the gambas directory and
>>        not very portable.
>
>>So having the absolute path to the apps plugin 
>>        collection and then from there doing dir() to see what to load.
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>>My thoughts
>>Brian Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 07:55AM -08:00 from olivier coquet  ocoquet at 3d-phenomen.fr :
>>
>>>Hi Brian,
>>>                  thanks a lot for tests and observations....
>>>
>>>It took me some
>>>                  time to understand what you were telling me with
>>>                  _new().
>>>I had thought of doing it the way it was originally
>>>                  but it has a major drawback:
>>>The _new() procedure runs as soon as I instantiate out
>>>                  I wanted to be able to activate the plugin or not
>>>                  depending on certain states of my main program. So my
>>>                  solution allows to trigger the plugin start at the
>>>                  appropriate time.
>>>For the rest (the dir....) totally agreed with you, I
>>>                  hadn't thought about it.
>>>Remain to know, do you think it would be useful to
>>>                  create a gambas add-on for this kind of plugin
>>>                  management ????
>>>
>>>friendship
>>>Olivier C.
>>>
>>>PS: for French language, deepl is our friend :)
>>>
>>>
>>>Le 17/02/2021 à
>>>                  14:03, Brian G a écrit :
>>>>Yes I have tried, Cool way to add plugins.
>>>>
>>>>It took me a while to figure out the right
>>>>                        way to name the component.. 
>>>>  project name had to be 'myPlugin.plg' or
>>>>                        some derivative...
>>>>  I kept making it MaPlg1 , which it found
>>>>                        but crashed because it was also the component
>>>>                        name .. lol
>>>>
>>>>I have attached a text file, as I look at
>>>>                        your program.
>>>>
>>>>Suggest to use _new instead of running
>>>>                        through all the plugins.
>>>>_new is executed upon instantiation of an
>>>>                        object. See text file.
>>>>
>>>>and add  Dir(Component.path,
>>>>                        "*"&plgid&"*") filter to dir  so you
>>>>                        don't check every file.
>>>>
>>>>lol .. my french is very rusty.. have not
>>>>                        really used it since high school in Canada! 
>>>>
>>>>I worked in Quebec for a while.. but still.. 
>>>>
>>>>Your example Works just fine!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>So Yes I tried you program ;)
>>>>
>>>>Brian G
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