I'm writing an application that includes a plugin system in a different assembly. The problem is that the plugin system needs to get application settings from the main app (like the directory to look for plugins). How is this done, or am I going about this the wrong way? Edit: I was encouraged to add some details about how the plugin ...
How can I prevent the image tag that calls the associated image from displaying if no image is associated with the record? <%= image_tag @agent.avatar.url %> ...gives me the text "Missing" if there is no image associated with that agent. I want to test to see there is an image available first, then render the above tag if the test re...
Hi, my question it's very easy, how I can write a plugin for eclipse? I've looked for documentation but unfortunately there is very little or it's poor, so can anyone recommend any articles? ...
In some editors there exist plugins implementing a feature called "hungry backspace" or "hungry delete". If this mode is active in a text editor then one hit to the backspace key will automatically delete all whitespace chars backwards from the current cursor position up to the first non-whitespace character. For example, this feature ...
I'm developing an editing component (iframe-based) in JQuery. My intention is to make it easy to extend the functionality of the editor through plug-ins. So for example, you might make a plug-in that puts wavy underlines underneath spelling mistakes, or allows images to be inserted, etc. I'm happy to work out the technicalities of this...
My friend, Dave, and I have been talking about this, well mostly him, but I think it is an excellent question and has really got me pondering it lately. Basically the question is this "Should you (ab)use tools/plugins for visual studio or use only what VS offers." More or less thats the question. The thought behind this is that as a de...
I am trying to develop a plug-in for QtWebkit. But I am not able to find how to develop a plugin for QtWebKit, hopefully one that can be invoked by JavaScript. Does anyone know of any tutorials or documents that explain how to do this? Webkit has been intregated into Qt and this integrated package is called QtWebkit. They have provided...
What system do you recommend for implementing "automatic updates" for some java (desktop) application? I'd also want to have module/plugin installation and update. Think Eclipse and Firefox. I'm aware of Eclipse RCP's OSGi stuff, and also NetBeans RCP has something here. Do one have to buy wholly into their respective RCP stuff to use t...
This question follows on from this vim search question I have a setting in my .vimrc which excludes $ as a valid part of a word: set iskeyword-=$ This works fine for most files but isn't working in PHP. I assume it is being overwritten by a php plugin, but since plugins are loaded after .vimrc I can't work out how to overwrite this s...
Hi, how to create a good plugin engine for standalone executables created with pyInstaller, py2exe or similar tools? I do not have experience with py2exe, but pyInstaller uses an import hook to import packages from it's compressed repository. Of course I am able to import dynamically another compressed repository created with pyInstall...
In short: what is the best way to design and implement a factory+plugin mechanism, so that plugins can replace objects in the main application. We have a code base from which we build our applications. The code base is fine for 70-95% of the applications, meaning that in each new application we need to change 5-30% of the default behavi...
I have a medium sized application written in c++ using QT. I wanted to profile things to see where my least performant code was so I compiled everything with -pg. However, my application makes use of a lot of plugins using the QTPlugin mechanism (boils down to a dlopen and a dlsym of a instance object per plugin). I've noticed that gpro...
Hi, I'm having troubles finding resources on the net on how to create a plugin for IE (6 & 7). Do you happen to know good sites/tutorials on this subject? BTW, here's why I want to do this: we have a web app here that's linked with another; i.e. when on a certain page, you could launch a bookmarklet (bookmark with javascript) that would...
I need some resources that talk about how to design your software to be extensible, i.e. so that other people can write add-ons/plug-ins that adds functionality to it. What do you recommend? Any books out there that discuss the subject? I would prefer something that's short and to the point; a bit of theory and a bunch of concrete examp...
I'm learning DI, and made my first project recently. In this project I've implement the repository pattern. I have the interfaces and the concrete implementations. I wonder if is possible to build the implementation of my interfaces as "plugins", dlls that my program will load dynamically. So the program could be improved over time wit...
I have Visual Studio 2008 with SP1 installed and it is crashing when I'm using lambda expressions in the Moq Framework. At first I thought the problem was Resharper...but now that I have uninstalled it, VS 2008 still crashes. I'm able to replicate the issue every time. I'm thinking perhaps it may be some other plugin that is causing th...
Right now, I am trying to create a plug-in of Eclipse which depends on other jar; therefore, I created a plug-in base on the jar and deployed it under my Eclipses' plugin foler. It works well when I start it from my working environment via an Eclipse. However, as soon as I have exported it into a jar and have deployed into Eclipse, it no...
Hello: I'm looking for a good ssh console plugin for Eclipse, and can't find much at all. Would anyone have some good leads on one? ...
I've been spending some time looking at Phil Haack's article on Grouping Controllers very interesting stuff. At the moment I'm trying to figure out if it would be possible to use the same ideas to create a plug-in/modular architecture for a project I'm working on. So my question is: Is it possible to have the Areas in Phil's article sp...
I'm using ganymede but I can't find the option to change mirror for the update sites. Is there a way to change this? ...