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Aug 28th, 2008, 12:44pm
 
i'm very happy about the new tools support, not that i've tested it, but it looks very promosing.

so one thing i was wondering: is it going to be possible to deliver a tool along side a library? for instance by allowing tools to be loaded from
<processing-libraries>/<my-library>/tools/<some-files>?

the reason i'm mentioning it is that i've been using joomla, an open source cms, a long time. and they have the concept of components, modules, mambots and whatnot. to add a guestbook to a website you end up downloading three files and installing them to three different locations.

just thinking out loud...



p.s. practical uses i could think of:
* the .obj file loader could come with a converter
* a simple gui editor-tool and the respective library to load that gui in the sketch
Re: libraries WITH tools...
Reply #1 - Aug 28th, 2008, 3:02pm
 
No, you just put them both in the sketchbook folder, like it says in tools/howto.txt. You shouldn't be using the main tools or libraries folders anyway.

As a hack you could have a folder that had both a tool/ and library/ subfolder, but that's not likely to work in future releases, and only allows one tool/one library.
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