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oozeBot

We are exploring the use of plugins instead of rebuilding DWC and have a few questions. Is it possible for a plugin to act on the upload of a gCode job file? Similar to how DWC acts on uploading a system file and prompts to install. If so, does anyone have any pointers on how to implement?

What we want to create is a pre-processor which automatically runs a script on the SBC on all jobs when uploaded by calling a custom mCode with the filename and path as the parameter. This might get tricky if uploading a zip file..

Another idea would be a right click context menu which calls the script (per file) when selected.

MintyTrebor

@oozebot Look into @contextmenu for right click menus/actions. BtnCmd is riddled with right click menus, and it's what I use.

psudo example :

<v-btn @contextmenu="doMenu($event)"></v-btn>

doMenu(e){
   e.preventDefault(); //prevents the standard right click menu from appearing
   whatever else you need....
}

pjl

@oozebot hi, did you ever come to a solution for this? I was thinking to try and use execonmcode to start the plugin when an Mcode is called in the print gcode file, but maybe something even simpler is possible..

oozeBot

@pjl Not yet, but moving a lot of our custom code to a plug-in is still our plan - we just had to prioritize other things ahead of it. Hopefully, when we revisit it, there will be many more examples out there for us to learn from.