New plugin on its way to Ron

[Ron]

Its uploaded! Great work Mark!

[Ron]

I'll upload somewhere around 6-7pm GMT ( waaaay many classes today )

[Mark F]

I just finished a new plugin and sent it (and source) to RonB. This plugin allows you, the user, to define an event string and pld1 data to send through the Girder event processing system.

I believe there are many uses for this plugin but I'd suggest downloading and trying it for yourself would be the best way to figure them out. I'd hate to stiffle someone's creativity by forcing a paradigm on them. ;)

Enjoy.

The name of the plugin is UserEvents.dll

[Mark F]

I found a cosmetic bug in the status reporting of this plugin so I updated it with multiple pldX strings and sent the new version to Ron. He is probably asleep so please be patient. :)

[Mark F]

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you feel stupid. :( One of these days, I'll remember to explain myself fully the first time. ;)

With Girder 3.1.x, Ron has added the capability of packaging extra data (PayLoad Data or pld) with any event that travels through the Girder command structure. Part of this data is in the form of multiple character strings and is accessed by you, the user, through the variables named pldX (where 1 <= X <= the number of strings).

The original version of this plugin allowed a user to define one string to travel with the user defined event. This string would be accessed through pld1. The version I sent yesterday allows a user to define multiple strings by placing them on multiple lines in an edit field. These are accessed through pld1, pld2, ..., pldX.

"What can the user do with this data?", you might ask. You could package an event that carries string values to be used in a Girder Variable Manipulation Script (http://www.girder.nl/help/registers.php) or GVMS. These string values could be constants or variables obtained from a previous GVMS.

I hope this helps explain a bit. If not, please ask more questions.

[stevech]

At the risk of revealing my stupidity - in the original posting, as repeated below, the term "pld1" is used. What the heck is it?"

"This plugin allows you, the user, to define an event string and pld1 data to send "