Best practices for creating plugins?

Best practices for creating plugins?

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Best practices for creating plugins?

nshupeFMPE3
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Thanks to everyone who's helped on all the questions I've had lately! As I've gained responsibility over a pretty old plugin that my whole department uses, I've been trying to improve it, get rid of things that are outdated or dont work. I was wondering if there is a resource for best practices for making plugins intended to be shared? 

Mine has some .Net DLL's, some cui changes, some autolisp commands, palettes, and a Block Resource file, all to say many different customizations. And they seem to autoload by different mechanisms. The autolisp files I just found out load by a .mnl file in the plugin folder, while the DLL's and palettes seem to load from the PackageContent.xml for the plugin. And then the cui seems to just get copied for being in the plugin folder? 

Seems like relaying on many different things which might be a product of changing standards over the years as AutoCAD has changed. If there is a standard now I'd love to bring my plugin up to the current standard.

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pbejse
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@nshupeFMPE3 wrote:

... If there is a standard now I'd love to bring my plugin up to the current standard.


Cant go wrong with [ Autodesk Autoloader ] Hasnt let me down yet 🙂

 

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