Blue Eye Macro

Than you for this! really helped greatly!

thx for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nice tutorial.
very helpful

Thats right - BE is running 3.5 still.

I will upgrade it to 4.0 eventually, I just decided to hold back on the upgrade a little while longer to not force everyone to upgrade to .NET 4.0 just yet.

Aha.. .NET 3.5

i compiled a dll, but when i put in the Plugins folder and restart BEM, the editor doesn't show my argument

Great, glad you got it working.

Thanks, selecting target framework .NET 3.5 solved the problem.

IPluginArgument is no longer used, simply use "PluginArgument" instead.
In BE version 2.5 the plugin system has been changed, to make it easier creating plugins.

To create a plugin in BE version 2.5 and later, follow these simple steps:

First of all, make sure to create a new project of type Class Library - select target framework to be .NET 3.5.

Add a reference to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Blue Eye Macro\Plugin.dll

Mark your class as Serializable.


Create your plugin inheriting from BaseInstruction / BaseCriterion.

Here is an example of two plugins, an instruction which which will simply save a variable and a criterion which will always return true.

C# Plugin
[code]
using System;
using Plugin.BaseClasses;
using Plugin.Classes;

namespace MyFirstCoupleOfPlugins
{
[Serializable]
public class MyPluginInstruction : BaseInstruction
{
public override void InitArguments()
{
AddArguments(
new PluginArgument(PluginArgument.ArgumentType.Text, 100, "Variable Name", "The variable to set"),
new PluginArgument(PluginArgument.ArgumentType.Text, 100, "Text", "The text to save"));
}

public override void Execute()
{
SetVariable(Arguments[0].Value.ToString(), Arguments[1].Value.ToString());
}

public override string Name
{
get { return "Set variable"; }
}
}

[Serializable]
public class MyPluginCriterion: BaseCriterion
{
public override void InitArguments(){}

public override bool IsSatisfied()
{
return true;
}

public override string Name
{
get { return "Always true"; }
}
}
}
[/code]

Compile it, and copy your new dll to the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Blue Eye Macro\Plugins" folder.

Compiled dll:
[attachment=0]MyFirstCoupleOfPlugins.dll[/attachment]

Launch BE, and your all set.

Now you can use your new instruction and criterion like this inside BE:
[code]
begin
Plugins.Set variable("var", "It works!")
if Plugins.Always true()
begin
Window.Display message box("{var}", "yes")
end
end
[/code]

I hope that helps, have fun creating your own building blocks :)

I am using visual studio 2010 it gives an error
"The type or namespace name 'IPluginArgument' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"
What am I doing wrong?