How to set enabled a plugin automatically

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I developed a Rhino plugin that is available in food4Rhino.
When someone installs it does not happen anything.
User must open Rhino Options and set enabled the installed plugin.

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Is it possible to do something in the plugin development so that when installing the plugin it is automatically enabled ?
Is it normal that when a plugin is installed user must to set enabled the plugin?
Thanks

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Here’s what you’d need to do (C# version)- two lines to add and define the value of a property.

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Edit to add: this setting will cause it to load+enable when Rhino opens. For a lot of plugins, that isn’t necessary. As an example, a plugin that doesn’t do anything until the user enters a plugin command on the command line shouldn’t need to force enable itself. I only do it because of some Rhino peculiarities with respect to user object selection.

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Unrelated to this problem: Does the plug-in work in Rhino 8?

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Thanks for your answer

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We have not yet tested our plugin in Rhino 8

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In my case, my plugin sometimes is loaded automatically and other times not.
I hope, that your proposal makes sure that my plugin is loaded automatically

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It seems reliable for me so far in Rhino 7 and 8 and is a documented feature so if it doesn’t work then report it as a bug.

There does seem to be an issue with a few plugin aspects in which Rhino almost seems to remember a previous state even after you change something like this or the icon, but I’ve only seen that on the developer machine not on a clean install.

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Y added the following lines:

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I created a distribution package with yak and I pushed it to food4rhino with yak too.

However I already have the same problem.

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Reading back… this sets what’s supposed to happen when Rhino loads.

I haven’t tested what happens immediately upon install.

I think these are the only settings we have for controlling loads.

And as I said, I think I’ve seen some oddness on my dev machine regarding that and a few other properties, almost as if Rhino remembers what the old setting was.

PlugIn.LoadTime property (rhino3d.com)
PlugIn.LoadTime property (rhino3d.com)

If it’s broken, I’d also be interested in a solution.

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Thanks another time for your answers.

I would like to edit my plugin description to advise the users about how they can enable the plugin.
But now I do not find any option to edit this information

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I haven’t used food4rhino yet but my assumption was that it would either:

  1. allow you to edit things like description when you logged in
    or
  2. took them from the manifest file (yml) inside the YAK package so that if you uploaded a new version that would automatically update.

If neither of those two are the answer, then I have the same question you do for the devs.

YML example:

---
name: Xray
version: 1.0
authors:
- Falcata Group
description: >-
  Detailed information about selected objects:
        Dimensions, volume/surface area/length, degree of curves/surfaces,
        and more plus easy copy/paste of those values into other tools such as
        MS Excel.
url: https://falcatagroup.com
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Thanks, I have edited the information of my plugin in food4rhino.

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It seems, that it works well. Thanks again