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🖥️ActiveHome Pro => SDK => Topic started by: mike tripp on October 10, 2005, 01:28:12 PM

Title: Making an Active Home Pro Plugin
Post by: mike tripp on October 10, 2005, 01:28:12 PM

I have an idea for a product I would like
to build.  But this product would be better
suited to be a plugin to the ActiveHome Pro
software instead of a standalone program.
It looks like everything is there in
the "Interface" portion of the dll to code
a plugin but I'm not sure.  First, would it
be legal to create such a plugin and sell
it?  Second, I understand that you could
not give direct support for such a plugin,
but could you give me any direction as far
as how I create the plugin?  For example,
does a plugin component code have to be a
dll or an exe or can it be either?  Are
there any basic white papers or other
information you could send me on making
plugins?  What are the parameters needed in
the plugin xml file for the program to
detect and use the plugin?  Anyone
attempted to use the plugin functions?
Thanks for any help you can give me.

Title: Re: Making an Active Home Pro Plugin
Post by: mike tripp on October 11, 2005, 11:50:16 AM

Sorry, I had the wrong email address.
Here's the message again with the correct
address.  Thank you.
I have an idea for a product I would like
to build.  But this product would be
better  suited to be a plugin to the
ActiveHome Pro  software instead of a
standalone program.  It looks like
everything is there in  the "Interface"
portion of the dll to code  a plugin but
I'm not sure.  First, would it  be legal to
create such a plugin and sell  it?  Second,
I understand that you could  not give
direct support for such a plugin,  but
could you give me any direction as far  as
how I create the plugin?  For example,
does a plugin component code have to be a
dll or an exe or can it be either?  Are
there any basic white papers or other
information you could send me on making
plugins?  What are the parameters needed
in  the plugin xml file for the program to
detect and use the plugin?  Anyone
attempted to use the plugin functions?
Thanks for any help you can give me.

Title: Re: Making an Active Home Pro Plugin
Post by: Tuicemen on October 01, 2006, 10:10:06 AM

I was just going over some old post And seen this one!
Many of the Third party addons could be suited for plugins, but since X10 has added the function to start window based programs with a macro,
You could make a addon and have Active Home Pro  start it.
You could even make your program start with different parameters by saving batch files and adding them to macros! ;)