On Friday 4 March 2005 23:05, Rajarshi Guha wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 22:05 +0100, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> > If you want to learn about how to write these plugins, you can look at
> > the source code of available plugins, e.g. the DirBrowser which comes by
> > default with the Jmol application. The sources are in CDK's cvs. Ask on
> > the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, and check CDK's SF website on
> > details how to checkout CVS for the CDK project, which is really the same
> > as checking out Jmol CVS. The module you need is: cdk-plugins
>
> I've been looking at this, so I was testing by using a reduced version
> of the dir browser plugin.
>
> A few questions -
>
> 1. After I have compiled the plugin I get a jar file which I then placed
> in the plugin-jars/ directory of the Jmol source tree. I then added 2
> lines in Jmols build.xml (clones of the lines refering to dirbrowser)
> and then rebuilt Jmol.
>
> However restarting Jmol did'nt show my plugin from the plugin menu. So
> how do I get a plugin to show up in Jmol?
Two options:
- use the mechanism described by Nicolas, which is best for testing...
I actually have a link to the source dir jar version from
$HOME/.jmol/plugins
- the DirBrowser is loaded by hardcoding in
src/org/openscience/jmol/app/Jmol.java
search for 'DirBrowser' and you'll find this line:
pluginManager.loadPlugin("org.openscience.cdkplugin.dirbrowser.DirBrowserPlugin");
Directly beneath that the is code to load plugins from $HOME/.jmol/plugins
This one is hardcoded because I do not know how to browse over all loaded
classes. Starting with a jar file, is opening it, loading interesting files
as class, and then do introspection... which is how the $HOME/.jmol/plugins
jars are loaded. This is done by the CDKPluginManager in CDK CVS...
Egon
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