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[Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
> 
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