asPluginManager

andreas · Post by **andreas** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:26 pm

With this plugin you can manage your installed plugins. It works by renaming the plugin folders in your AfterShotPro user home Plugins directory. Activated plugin directories end in *.afplugin, deactivated end in *.afplugin.off.

You can enable and disable your installed plugins by just clicking on the check boxes. Plugins which are active in ASP (regarding their directory names on startup) are shown in a bold font. You have to restart ASP of course to obey these changes.

You can download the Plugin here: asPluginManager. Also a link to the source code git repo is provided on that page.

If you want you can make a donation here: PayPal Donation

ATTENTION: Like removing the plugins manually, disabling a plugin here has the following effect: If you change settings for an image with a plugin disabled all settings of that plugin are lost for the image.

Andreas

ogrizzo · Post by **ogrizzo** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:55 pm

Cool, waiting for Mac version.

Thanks!

Ottavio

grahamh · Post by **grahamh** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 3:44 am

I like this a lot but for some time now would love to know when I select an image in AS which plugins are affective for this image. Currently the only way, I think, is to go to each plugin and see if it is enabled. Your Plugin manager could maybe expanded to provide this function by showing plugins used for a specific image by changing the colour to red, for example. This extension would then provide a very quick method of checking for plugin usage.

Is this feasible or is there a way I have missed?

andreas · Post by **andreas** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 6:28 am

Hi,

I am thinking about a solution for displaying the enabled state of the plugin, but there is no possibility in the ASP SDK for it. At the moment I see only one solution: The PluginManager can provide a function which can be called by other plugins to propagate their current enabled/disabled state. The other plugins would have to implement the call.

If anyone has a better idea - tell me!

Andreas

andreas · Post by **andreas** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 6:36 am

another idea: asPluginManager could be configured for the "enabled" option names of the plugins. Sounds possible... I'll give it a try...

Andreas

afx · Post by **afx** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 6:45 am

grahamh wrote:I like this a lot but for some time now would love to know when I select an image in AS which plugins are affective for this image. Currently the only way, I think, is to go to each plugin and see if it is enabled.

Way too inefficient.
Just check the selective copy popup.
Still not perfect butt better than checking plugins manually....

cheers
afx

andreas · Post by **andreas** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 11:08 am

Mac version available now at the download page.

Andreas

PS: Working on the "see which are enabled", but running into problems at the moment...

grahamh · Post by **grahamh** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 1:58 pm

from afx

Just check the selective copy popup.
Still not perfect butt better than checking plugins manually....

Thanks - I did not think of that approach which is workable. I think this info is very important when reviewing an image and prior to your reply I had not thought of using selective copy. The icing on the cake for me would be for AS to have an icon on display for alerting user that plugins are used for a specific image. Ideally, I would like that the icon changes colour indicating plugin use and on pressing shows just the list of plugins.

Ok the selective copy is a solution but this I think should be an obvious thing - we have the same concept used for the filter but plugin use is a critical requirement when going back to an image to make further adjustments. I guess my request should be targetted at Jeff S rather than andreas.

charlot · Post by **charlot** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 3:40 pm

Mr Andreas

Nice innovation

For an upgrade...is it possible to have a button where we could arrange the plugins into categories...like Effects,Black and White,Contrast and luminosity,Color enhancement,others
and choose among them

Much oblige

Cherres

Charlot

Money is coming

andreas · Post by **andreas** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:13 pm

Thanks to Bernd for this hint:

ATTENTION: Like removing the plugins manually, disabling a plugin here has the following effect: If you change settings for an image with a plugin disabled all settings of that plugin are lost for the image.

Andreas

nyukuri · Post by **nyukuri** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:24 am

That's really unfortunate. I hope someone has already asked the Monkey to change this. the sidecar file should keep plugin information, even if the plugin is not installed (or hidden via asPluginManager).

I planned to write a plugin that reveils the Pipeline, but since you have already a listing of all plugins, why don't you include this feature in your asPluginManager?
Offer tabs or buttons for 1. alphabetical order as you have already and 2. pipeline order!

This pipeline order could also include the ASP original tools, showing their position as well, but they would be of course grayed out or without a checkbox to disable/enable. This would help people understanding what is happening WHEN to their image, and based on this information, one may enable/disable plugins that have the same function but are placed differently in the pipeline...!

What do you think about that?

andreas · Post by **andreas** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:19 pm

Hi,

I am fairly sure that is it conceptually not possible to preserve settings of plugins which are not installed. All options are registered by numbers inside ASP. Report the monkey, that uninstalled plugin options are lost, but I have no hope that it can be changed.

Went a PM regarding pipe stages and enabling/disabling, well we'll see what happens here...

I think there will be an update for asPluginManager this week.

Andreas

I3ilbo · Post by **I3ilbo** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:08 pm

Hi,

it probably would be possible if plugins, which are hidden using the pluginmanager are not uninstalled but only hidden from the gui

gareth · Post by **gareth** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:00 pm

That would mean that at least one of the settings for those plugins would not be preserved...
They would have to be made inactive

nyukuri · Post by **nyukuri** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:23 am

It is easily possible!

Instead of renaming the plugin folder, asPluginManager should open the folder, open the info.afpxml and REM the 5th line, for example:


instead of:
<li>ui/Bez.ui</li>

This keeps the Plugin installed, presets do work fine, the plugin is only hidden from the UI and the user can't change the settings of it.

I suggest that asPluginManager offers a second checkbox for this functionality:
1. checkbox to "uninstall" theplugin by renaming the folder
2. checkbox to hide the plugin from view

cheers,
nyukuri

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hiding instead of uninstalling