[ jEdit-devel ] Plugin API question: EditPlugin.start() always called before any dockables?

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Hi Slava et al!

I have a general plugin question: Is the start() method of a plugin, 
which extends the EditPlugin, always called before any dockables are 
created, which are defined in the dockables.xml of the same plugin?

My problem is that the Window (which should be created in the 
dockables.xml) needs to know about the plugin's main class and I hate to 
use static stuff (well, I even dont like the call of 
jEdit.getPlugin("some.package.MyPlugin"), but here you'll probably need it).

I would like to have the plugin's main class create the window, and that 
should be called from the beanshell code in the dockables.xml:

<DOCKABLE NAME="mypluginwindow">
   MyPlugin myPlugin = jEdit.getPlugin("some.package.MyPlugin");
   myPlugin.createWindow(view, position); // returns a window's instance
</DOCKABLE>

The call of jEdit.getPlugin() can only succeed if the class loader has 
created the plugin's main class previously. But is this the case? Has 
the start() method been called at that point (and is there a difference 
in the new 4.2 plugin API)?

I thought asking is better than finding that out by crawling through 
Jedit's code. Thanks for any help!

Alex

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Alexander Klimetschek

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