plugins

Plugin API design

So I have an application that is based heavily on the QT API which using the QPlugin system. It's fairly simple to use, you define a class which inherit from an Interface and when the plugin is loaded you get an instance of that class. In the end it'll boil down to a dlopen/dlsym or LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress, whatever is appropriate for...

How to get started in creating a Wikibot like component in asp.net?

...wikibot, the Joomla! plugin helps to make auto-wikipedia links for the website words. How to make such a component in asp.net? ...

How to redirect WebBrowser control of another Application

I have Application, and i cann't modify it. This Application contain IEControl (WebBrowser control), which display some URLs and open some txt files. How can I get IWebBrowser2 and redirect this control to specified URL? For example i need redirect this control to http://stackoverflow.com every time control trying to open txt file? ...

How do I find a complete list of extensions installed in VS2008?

I want that list, because if something horrible happens, and I'll have to reinstall Visual Studio - I'll need this list, so that I can recreate the same development environment. This also makes it hard to search for updates - I can not see the versions of currently installed plug-ins. So, is there a single place in Visual Studio, that w...

What's the best way to get a return value out of an asyncExec in Eclipse?

I am writing Eclipse plugins, and frequently have a situation where a running Job needs to pause for a short while, run something asynchronously on the UI thread, and resume. So my code usually looks something like: Display display = Display.getDefault(); display.syncExec(new Runnable() { public void run() { ...

create own plugin for Thunderbird or Zarafa?

hi, I want to enhance my thunderbird (or zarafa), so that i can rightclick on a mail, and get a dialog, where i can fill in some information (like an article reference, an issue number or an invoice) and press "send", and this information alongside with the email and (logged-in) user-information will be sent to another webservice (i.e. ...

Best practices for non-conforming plugins in a rails app

I am working on a rails demo app, and I plan to use apache fop, a java library. In the long term, I will probably configure it as a service and call it using http to generate pdfs for me. However, in the meantime I was curious what the best practice is for where one might expect to find/locate a non-rails plugin that conforms to the ...

A good place to find frameworks with Interface Builder plug-ins…

Someone on here recently recommended BWToolkit, and it really impressed me, so I started googling for more IB plug-ins. I've found a couple on random blogs, but haven't been able to find any kind of repository/aggregator for them. Anyone know where I can find more of these? Thanks. ...

Subclipse and Tortoise SVN together

Can these two SVN clients collaborat? I have my projects checkouted with Tortoise, but now I would like to be able to use the SVN functionality (mostly updating and commiting) from inside of the Eclipse. But the Subcipse doesn't see the SVN status of the files checkouted by Tortoise. I'm doing similiar with Tortoise and MSVS plugin Ankh...

Firefox plugin to copy text with its formatting Intelligently?

When viewing a webpage, I would like to copy a selection of text with its html formatting in one piece. Meaning if some text is in bold and blue, I want the tool to create a style or class in the html which makes the text blue. Everything is contained in the produced html. I have downloaded a similar plugin but the classes definitions a...

How best to add Plugin Capability to a Delphi program

I am looking to add the capability for users to write plugins to the program I have developed in Delphi. The program is a single executable with no DLLs used. This would allow the user community to write extensions to my program to access the internal data and add capabilities that they may find useful. I've seen the post at: http://...

How can I prevent loading a native dll from a .NET app?

Background: My C# application includes a plugin framework and generic plugin loader. The plugin loader enumerates the application directory in order to identify plugin dlls (essentially it searches for *.dll at this time). Within the same application directory is a native (Windows, non-.net) dll, which, indirectly, one of the plugin ...

uninstall plugins in Eclipse 3.4.X

Hi, The GUI for managing plugins in Eclipse got a bit of an overhaul in version 3.4.0. This GUI is accessed via the "Software Updates..." option in the Help menu. This displays the following dialog: Notice that the option to remove the selected plugin (Mylyn) is greyed out. In fact, this is true of virtually every installed plugin. ...

Unused code plugin in Eclipse 3.4.1

Hi, I recently upgraded to the latest version of Eclipse (3.4.1). It appears that the unused code detector plugin doesn't work with this version. When I try running it, I get the error message: Problems running UCDetector. Check error log No enum const class org.ucdetector.preferences.WarnLevel.Ignore Has anyone else had this ...

How to develop an Outlook/Mail Plugin?

I want to develop a plug-in that does this: A button, when clicked, opens the new mail window but has a certain phrase in the subject line, for e.g. when I click a button called 'PROJ123', the new mail window opens with the subject line "[PROJ123]" Other functionality it would need: Ability to Create/Update/Delete Buttons as needed ...

Why does the EPIC eclipse plugin not show any info in "Explain Errors/Warnings"?

I use the "EPIC" plugin to Eclipse for Perl development, but in the "Explain Errors/Warnings" view there's no info at all, even though I have some compilation errors. Do I need to do anything special to get EPIC to display useful info in that view? What is that view for anyway? ...

jQuery rollovers using multiple ids and classes

I'm building a photo gallery and what I would like to do is make it so that as the user rolls over an image (let's say for the purposes of this question it's a picture of an apple), all the other images of apples on the page also show their "over" state. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, and thank you for your time in adva...

How to use jquery form plugin with asp.net ?

in asp.net 2.0 (not mvc), the form's action is to itself. how can I use the forms plugin to send information to server? I need to send data from the form (let's say name, email, comment) and to display the result on the client side. Any ideas? Thanks, Dave ...

Is there a way to programatically enable a widget from a plugin in WordPress?

I've got a plugin I wrote for wordpress and I need to have the Pages widget enabled for everything to work properly. It would be nice if I could enable it myself in the plugin rather than requesting the user to do this. Do you know of a way to do that? G-Man ...

New jQuery plugin - What is the best way to get input and feedback?

I had a need for a certain functionality on my web apps and I use jQuery a lot, so I thought I would write a jQuery plugin. Since this is my first attempt to write a jQuery plugin, I would really like to get feedback from people, or maybe even get collaboration so others could work with me to modify/enhance my code. I thought the first...