Mastering Plugin Functions: Running Individual Commands via EmEditor Macros on MacOS

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• October 12, 2008 at 4:16 pm #6391
  dreftymac
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  PROBLEM:
  I would like to be able to run all available plugin commands from an emeditor macro. The problem is, ExecuteCommandByID does not seem to know what all the ID numbers are for every single plugin action.
  QUESTION:
  Is ExecuteCommandByID capable of finding and running all of the commands that are defined in every plugin? If not, is there another way to tell a macro to run any arbitrary command from any arbitrary plugin?
  Thanks for any help or info
  October 12, 2008 at 5:46 pm #6392
  Yutaka Emura
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  dreftymac wrote:
  PROBLEM:
  I would like to be able to run all available plugin commands from an emeditor macro. The problem is, ExecuteCommandByID does not seem to know what all the ID numbers are for every single plugin action.

  QUESTION:
  Is ExecuteCommandByID capable of finding and running all of the commands that are defined in every plugin? If not, is there another way to tell a macro to run any arbitrary command from any arbitrary plugin?

  Thanks for any help or info
  You can use QueryStringByID Method to figure out which plug-in corresponds to which ID.
  October 13, 2008 at 4:44 am #6393
  dreftymac
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  You can use QueryStringByID Method to figure out which plug-in corresponds to which ID
  Yes, thank you for this, but that was not actually the question. The question is not how to run any plugin, but the question was how to run any specific *command* inside of any specific plugin.
  For example:

        /// we know we can do this for any plugin ...  
        var idd  =  5637;                /// QueryStringByID found this for us  
        editor.ExecuteCommandByID(idd);  /// activate the "outline" plugin  
            
        /// but can you do *this* for any plugin ...  
        /*  
        var oPlugin =   editor.GetPluginByID(idd);  /// <-- how can you do this?  
        oPlugin.doCommand('CollapseAll');           /// <-- or this?  
        oPlugin.doCommand('ExpandAll');             /// <-- or this?  
        oAnyPlugin.doCommand('AnyCommandYouWant');  /// <-- or even this?  
        */  
  

  October 13, 2008 at 5:13 am #6394

Yutaka Emura
Keymaster

dreftymac wrote:

You can use QueryStringByID Method to figure out which plug-in corresponds to which ID

Yes, thank you for this, but that was not actually the question. The question is not how to run any plugin, but the question was how to run any specific *command* inside of any specific plugin.

For example:

    /// we know we can do this for any plugin ...  

    var idd  =  5637;                /// QueryStringByID found this for us  

    editor.ExecuteCommandByID(idd);  /// activate the "outline" plugin  



    /// but can you do *this* for any plugin ...  

    /*  

    var oPlugin =   editor.GetPluginByID(idd);  /// <-- how can you do this?  

    oPlugin.doCommand('CollapseAll');           /// <-- or this?  

    oPlugin.doCommand('ExpandAll');             /// <-- or this?  

    oAnyPlugin.doCommand('AnyCommandYouWant');  /// <-- or even this?  

    */  

It is not possible, unfortunately.

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