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drtech wrote:Thanks.

I have another request. In order to add a setup menu item for my plugin, I need menuItemSettings to be made public rather than private.

change line 66 in FormOpenDental.cs

FROM
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private System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem menuItemSettings;
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TO
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public System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem menuItemSettings;
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The hook is already present for me to use, just need this protection level changed. Thanks!

drtech wrote:***************************
The to make it work, the Plugins need to loaded just a bit earlier. If you move

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                Plugins.LoadAllPlugins(this);
 

in FormOpenDental.FormOpenDental_load from line 1662 (before loading the splash screen for the second time) up to 1627, it works great.

All is tested and working.

drtech wrote:***************************
For the splash screen this modification will make it work on the second showing after the database info is loaded. The user gets the normal splash initially and then my plugin additions will popup. Not what I initially hoped for, but works pretty well actually since a plugin is an add-on anyway and visually represents that to the user.

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If (Plugins.PluginsAreLoaded) Plugins.HookAddCode(this, "FormSplash.FormSplash_Load_end");

to line 30 of OpenDental.FormSplash.cs


The to make it work, the Plugins need to loaded just a bit earlier. If you move

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                Plugins.LoadAllPlugins(this);
 

in FormOpenDental.FormOpenDental_load from line 1662 (before loading the splash screen for the second time) up to 1627, it works great.

All is tested and working.

drtech wrote:Sorry, I didn't realize I left it as a "AddMethod" and not "addcode" after my testing. Yes, it was tested and works fine, but I revised it below to follow the patterns since I had combined examples by mistake. I just want to add a string(plugin name) to the retVal so it shows in the title bar. If you have a better way of doing it, then by all means replace it or give me an idea of what you think would be better. This works great and is simpler:

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object[] parameters = {retVal};
Plugins.HookAddCode(null, "OpenDental.PatientL.GetMainTitleMidInsert", parameters);
retVal = (string)parameters[0];                 

added at line 80 of OpenDental.PatientL


for the splash screen, I will continue to work on it...

DrTech,

Were you able to access the private control through our public Controls property?

http://www.opendental.com/manual/plugins.html

1. To access the private controls on an existing form from outside the form, look through the public Controls property as shown in the posted example.

Changing the privacy setting on a control to public is generally not good practice, but you should still be able to access it this way.

        public static void OpenDental_Load_end(OpenDental.FormOpenDental sender)
        {
            formModuleSetupP = new FormModuleSetupP();
            MenuItem mnu = new MenuItem();
            mnu.Text = "Plugin Customized Setup";
            mnu.Name = "PluginSetup";
            mnu.Index = 0;
            mnu.Click += formModuleSetupP.aGoldPluginOptionsToolStripMenuItem1_Click;
            sender.menuItemSettings.MenuItems.Add(0, mnu);
   

        

        }