ide.MakePlugin

[Alan Hendry]

Hi,

I see the example of creating a WebView map plugin, and 2.06  ide.MakePlugin

I want to make some easily re-usable UI plugins.

Do we have any examples of coding, conversion, and use?

I've seen some examples of definition like

app.functionname = function (parameters) { body of function }

and usage 

app.functionname(parameters)

What would be considered best practice?

(Or am I barking up the wrong tree).

Regards, ah

[Dave]

Hi Alan,

The Map plugin is a good reference example, however it was written before the ide.MakePlugin existed.

If you create a fresh project in DS and include the ideMakePlugin call at the start, it will generate the necessary javascript and html files required for a simple DS plugin. You just need to reload your project to see the new generated files.  For example the code below will add 3 new files to your project - DemoPlugin.js, DemoPlugin.html and DemoPlugin.png

function OnStart() 

{ 

  //Package this project into a plugin and install it. 

  ide.MakePlugin( "DemoPlugin" ) 

   //Test the plugin functionality. 

   app.LoadPlugin( "DemoPlugin" ) 

   plg = app.CreateDemoPlugin() 

   alert( plg.Test( "World" ) ) 

}

You can examine those files to see the function pattern/style you need to use to add new features to your plugin.  These files will be re-generated every time you run the project and a DemoPlugin.ppk will also be generated every time (in the DroidScript/PPKs folder) which contains the packaged plugin, ready for deployment or uploading to the DS Store.

The MapView plugin is a bit more sophisticated as it wraps up a WebView control.  This technique allows you to make use of the many HTML5 and JavaScript libraries that exist on Github and around the web.

Hope that helps

Regards

David