Thread: Road Runner Plugin Manager Online! Submit Your Plugins Now!

Originally Posted by GizmoQ

Can this also be written so it works outside of Road Runner like RRConfig does? I can see instances where I want to install/update plugins regardless of which skins are already configured for them.

well at this point the idea was to install the developers "sample skin" in the skin folder. I wont match but at least the plugin is installed in its full form that way. If we want to leave the skin out thats fine and good.. but the plugin isnt really useful if there's no skin attached to it from the start. I'll leave that up to popular consensus

But yea i could pretty easily make this standalone... as long as you bear in mind i've NEVER made a windows form based application. I may need someone to pretty it up

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

ok i've got downloading/extraction working in there base form.

So you don't need my unzip code then?

Originally Posted by Enforcer

So you don't need my unzip code then?

no i've got unzipping working just fine using the sharpZipLib.. which works a little faster than the one blue posted. Thanks though.

OK, no probs.

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

The NEXT step is to register the .dll files which should be easy to do. After that comes appending the menu.skin file with the (x) line. I'd like some feedback on this. Should i append EACH menu.skin in every skin installed on the computer or just current skinpath? Either can be done i'm just not sure how it should be handled

Personally, I found the easiest way to do the plugin's is with an include file. Trying to write them to the menu skin is difficult, with the possibility of even screwing up the menu.skin depending on what comments are in there and such, trying to insert the lines into the right location ect ect....

In the DFX skin, I have a plugins.txt in the skin folder, then only one line is needed in the menu.skin:
"INC,Plugins.txt".

This makes it very easy for adding and removing plugins, as the plugins.txt is just simple list, here is a copy of the one in my skin folder:

X,SKINTOOL
X,DayNightEvents
X,GPSEVENTS
X,MOVIETIMES
X,RRMEDIADB
X,RRSPEAK
/X,SILABSDT
X,RRGAS

The /X at the beginning of the line just shows that it is "installed and is turned off"

The nice thing about this, is when you install a new skin, you just have to copy over the plugins.txt into the new skin folder, and add one line to the menu.skin file. As time goes on, hopefully, the INC,Plugins.txt could be adopted by skinners, and nothing would need to be added to the menu.skin file.

oo sounds like another standard that may need to be set!

And if this was 7 days ago I would have added it to the Plugins Standards thread.

Originally Posted by Enforcer

And if this was 7 days ago I would have added it to the Plugins Standards thread.

Enough already. Everybody knows your screen name was no mistake and that intimidated everyone from your thread.

Nope that is not it.