Storing and reusing devices using plugins

Introduction

Plugins store collections of devices from your designs. By creating a series of plugins you can reuse and share custom functionality with other users.

Here are some things you can do with plugins:

• Customize devices to always appear the way you want, with the default values you want.
• Build, reuse, and distribute your own custom design elements and title blocks.
• Create devices to control other products.
• Distribute, either freely or for money, the devices you create.

Plugins can store devices that perform signal processing and control tasks, and can also include images and Python scripts created using the Live Python device.

Notes:

• Plugins cannot include preset datasets, audio .wav files or Python scripts that are not part of Live Python devices.
• In order to create a plugin, Edit mode must be selected. You can switch to this mode by clicking the Edit button on the toolbar.

User devices

Earlier versions of NWare used to include a feature called user devices, which offered similar functionality to plugins. When you upgrade to a version of NWare that supports plugins, and you run NWare for the first time, you will be prompted to convert the user devices to plugins.