Problem
Your plugin maintains a number of settings that need to be retained between sessions. Is there an easy way to do this? Do these setting migrate from one Rhino service release to another?
Solution
You can load and save persistent plugin setting from and to the Registry using the CRhinoPlugIn::LoadProfile and CRhinoPlugIn::SaveProfile virtual functions. For information on these virtual function, see rhinoSdkPlugIn.h.
How To
Lets say we have a sample plugin class declaration that looks something like the following:
class CTestPlugIn : public CRhinoUtilityPlugIn
{
public:
CTestPlugIn();
~CTestPlugIn();
// Required overrides
const wchar_t* PlugInName() const;
const wchar_t* PlugInVersion() const;
GUID PlugInID() const;
BOOL OnLoadPlugIn();
void OnUnloadPlugIn();
private:
ON_wString m_plugin_version;
// Persistent data
bool m_value0;
int m_value1;
double m_value2;
ON_wString m_value3;
};
Simply, overload the CRhinoPlugIn::LoadProfile and CRhinoPlugIn::SaveProfile virtual functions by adding the the following public declarations to our plugin class:
void LoadProfile( LPCTSTR lpszSection, CRhinoProfileContext& pc );
void SaveProfile( LPCTSTR lpszSection, CRhinoProfileContext& pc );
Then, provide the definition:
void CTestPlugIn::LoadProfile( LPCTSTR lpszSection, CRhinoProfileContext& pc )
{
pc.LoadProfileBool( lpszSection, L"value0", &m_value0 );
pc.LoadProfileInt( lpszSection, L"value1", &m_value1 );
pc.LoadProfileDouble( lpszSection, L"value2", &m_value2 );
pc.LoadProfileString( lpszSection, L"value3", m_value3 );
}
void CTestPlugIn::SaveProfile( LPCTSTR lpszSection, CRhinoProfileContext& pc )
{
pc.SaveProfileBool( lpszSection, L"value0", m_value0 );
pc.SaveProfileInt( lpszSection, L"value1", m_value1 );
pc.SaveProfileDouble( lpszSection, L"value2", m_value2 );
pc.SaveProfileString( lpszSection, L"value3", m_value3 );
}
That’s it! Your data is now saved at the following location in the Registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\McNeel\Rhinoceros\<version>\<scheme>\Plug-ins\<plugin_id>\Settings
