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Arana (20 posts) Bio

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Thu 26 Aug 2010 06:56 PM (UTC)

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if i disable any plugin from the world plugins GUI, then save the world, load the world again, the plugins are enabled again, this happens not only to me but to other friends also, is this how it is supposed to be?

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (23,133 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

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Reply #1 on Thu 26 Aug 2010 09:02 PM (UTC)

Amended on Thu 26 Aug 2010 09:03 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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It doesn't automatically do that, because it would need to save the disabled state somewhere.

However I have added it to some plugins.

First, make sure in the plugin header that it saves its state like this:


<plugin
   name="Aardwolf_Helplist"
   author="Nick Gammon"
   id="8a8e24942fe60f88bcaf1807"
   language="Lua"
   purpose="Makes a helper window with hyperlinks"
   date_written="2008-06-26 12:21:22"
   requires="4.29"
   version="1.0"
   save_state="y"
   >

The rest is probably different, but make sure that the "save_state" line is there.

Then add a function to the plugin that remembers, when its state is saved, whether or not it is disabled:


function OnPluginSaveState ()
  SetVariable ("enabled", tostring (GetPluginInfo (GetPluginID (), 17)))
end -- OnPluginSaveState

Then when the plugin loads we check that "enabled" variable, and if false, call EnablePlugin to disable ourselves right now:


function OnPluginInstall ()

  -- any initialization here ...

  if GetVariable ("enabled") == "false" then
    ColourNote ("yellow", "", "Warning: Plugin " .. GetPluginName ().. " is currently disabled.")
    check (EnablePlugin(GetPluginID (), false))
    return
  end -- they didn't enable us last time
  
end -- OnPluginInstall

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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Posted by

Arana (20 posts) Bio

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Reply #2 on Thu 26 Aug 2010 09:27 PM (UTC)

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thank you, that will do it, even tho i have to edit all the plugins xD

hmmm
could it be possible to disable the plugins using another plugin? that way we could write a "plugin manager plugin"
that and only that one would need to keep record of what lpugins should be disabled and then turn them off or on accordingly.

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (23,133 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

Date Reply #3 on Thu 26 Aug 2010 11:06 PM (UTC)

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Ah yes I think you could do that. You would need to get the plugin list (GetPluginList) and using the resulting list do the


GetPluginInfo (id, 17)

for each one, and then save that as a variable (eg. plugin ID concatenated with "enabled").

Then when the plugin manager loads it could disable the other plugins as required.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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