Plugin clean-shutdown

[madcat]

Tons of other plugins are doing this without any problems. I'd have to guess your plugin is generating an exception in the constructor.

Hey - dont get defensive :p, I wasn't doubting the mechanism, I just need some help getting on my feet here...

Ok, I remarked most of the class, now no excpetion. However, all I have in the C'Tor is Logger lines, and... well, they appear twice in the log file:

Code:

public RemotePlugin()
        {
            Logger.Verbose("RemotePlugin: entering CTOR");
            Logger.Verbose("RemotePlugin: leaving CTOR");
        }

Log file:

Code:

19/06/2006 16:42:00.849    VERBOSE    [1]    getValue: /settings/PluginsEnabled : true
19/06/2006 16:42:00.849    VERBOSE    [1]    RemotePlugin: entering CTOR
19/06/2006 16:42:00.849    VERBOSE    [1]    RemotePlugin: leaving CTOR
19/06/2006 16:42:00.849    VERBOSE    [1]    RemotePlugin: entering CTOR
19/06/2006 16:42:00.849    VERBOSE    [1]    RemotePlugin: leaving CTOR
19/06/2006 16:42:00.869    VERBOSE    [1]    GuideMenuTask created

:confused::confused::confused:

[sub]

A separate instance is created for the class implementing IMenuTask and the class implementing IEventNotification.

[madcat]

A separate instance is created for the class implementing IMenuTask and the class implementing IEventNotification.

AHA!
That explains it (why is that? never mind...).
So, now I have to decide whether to combine or not. Got it.

Once again - thanks for the (unreal) swift support!

[Snarky]

If you're still trying to decide, I've had good results with using the "proxy" design pattern (with a twist of "singleton").

There's a proxy class that implements IMenuTask and IEventNotification, and gets instantiated twice. But both instances just turn everything over to the "real" object, a different class that only gets instantiated once (our pseudo-singleton).

Like so:

Code:

public class PluginProxy : IMenuTask, IEventNotification
{
private static PluginBackend theRealPlugin;

public PluginProxy()
{
  if(theRealPlugin==null)
   theRealPlugin = new PluginBackend();
}

public void Activate()
{
   theRealPlugin.Activate();
}

// etc.
}

class PluginBackend
{

public void Activate()
{
  // ...
}

// etc.
}