Hi Clemens, See sample plugin attached. Extract it into kicad's share/scripting/plugins folder. One of other scanned directories that are documented in kicadplugins.i <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/blob/6fdc5972f8431b4d5831a32649e67bfe20d05de8/scripting/kicadplugins.i#L180> should work too.
Or are you asking to update docs in the repo? Documentation/development/pcbnew-plugins.md seems like the right place. I will update it once committers agree with the path I've chosen to implement this. On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 4:48 AM Clemens Koller <c...@embeon.de> wrote: > Hello, Andrew! > > I am somehow missing the Python example you are giving in your patch. > Can you add this a simple example to the sources to get a basic/dummy > skeleton working right from scratch? > > Regards, > > Clemens > > > On 15/08/2018 11.31, Andrew Lutsenko wrote: > > Hi KiCad devs, > > > > I am proposing an addition to plugin system. > > Probably most will agree that menus suck. Toolbars suck less :) > > > > In my plugin I added a dirty hack to modify top toolbar from plugin init > code to add a button > > that calls plugins run() method. It is broken on linux X11 and is not a > sustainable way others > > can add buttons in their plugins. But having a button was quite popular > among users so I > > decided to implement this functionality directly in pcbnew. > > > > I introduced one more field plugin writers can define in defaults() that > contains path to png icon > > and if that string is not empty, pcbnew will attempt to load that icon > and add a button to top > > toolbar with action that calls the same run() method. I traced in code > how plugin action menu > > is generated and added similar logic for buttons. > > > > Here is how the result looks like: > > > > https://i.imgur.com/f3xg1FE.gif > > > > Sample dummy plugin __init__.py code: > > > > import os > > import pcbnew > > import wx > > > > class Plugin1(pcbnew.ActionPlugin): > > > > def defaults(self): > > self.name <http://self.name> = "Dummy Plugin 1" > > self.category = "Read PCB" > > self.description = "" > > self.icon_file_name = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), > 'icon.png') > > > > def Run(self): > > wx.MessageBox("Plugin 1") > > > > Plugin1().register() > > > > It's as simple as that. > > > > The patch is attached. It probably needs some error checking but seems > to be working great. > > Tested in win64 so far. > > I'm open to suggestions on how to get it to good state, I will also test > on linux asap. > > > > Regards, > > Andrew > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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