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Originally Posted by Digital_Utopia
I've noticed that WoW addon authors have started using a slide out type of icon menu for their addons - presumably due to an alternative to mini-map icons, as you can only fit so many on there.
But anyway, that might be something worth looking into. It would require cooperation from individual authors, but it would certainly make things easier.
I'm not sure if global variables are confined to apartments, but that might be one way of doing it, without having to do any manual editing or whatnot.
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When I started working on
Bootstrap, my main objective was to provide a way to interact with (not just load) other plugins through a graphical user interface rather than just shell commands. This has taken the form of a menu similar to the native 'system' menu, without icons, and can (obviously) take another form. For that matter I originally meant to make a tool bar, which I'll probably do eventually as an alternative to the 'menu'. The main difficulty of course is that icons don't just get created out of nothing.
While developing the plugin, I also toyed with the idea of exposing an API for plugin authors to register functions and icons directly, although I dismissed it so far because 1) registering functions is pretty much what's being done with shell commands, 2) I'm not going to convince everyone to do so, 3) 'Apartments'.
I might resuscitate that idea, should I manage to get around 'Apartments'.