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Short:EvenMore textviewer plugins source
Author:chris at prophecynews.co.uk (Chris Perver)
Uploader:chris prophecynews co uk (Chris Perver)
Type:text/show
Version:0.89
Replaces:text/show/EvenMorePlugins.lha
Requires:ECX or AmigaE
Architecture:generic
Date:2020-05-17
Download:http://aminet.net/text/show/EvenMorePlugins.lha - View contents
Readme:http://aminet.net/text/show/EvenMorePlugins.readme
Downloads:6678

These are the source code for the plugins for EvenMore. They are written in  the
AmigaE  and ECX programming languages, but there is no reason why you should not
be able to create plugins using any programming language.

USAGE
=====

These source codes have been uploaded to Aminet so that others can  see  how  to
create  their own plugins for EvenMore. You are free to use and modify this code
for your own personal use. The only thing I would ask is, if you are  interested
in  writing  a  plugin  for  EvenMore,  to  let me know so I can put it up on my
website. If you do want to use some of this code for  your  own  programming,  I
have  no objection to that, so long as you mention where you got it from in your
documentation. Apart from some example code taken from the ROM  Kernel  manuals,
this  is  all  my  own  work,  and  represents  many  years work. I also take no
responsibility for any bugs left in it!

THE PLUGIN SYSTEM
=================

The old EvenMore plugin system used the Amiga  library  system.  EvenMore  would
open  these  libraries  sequentially  and  check  to  see if the plugin criteria
matched those of the open file. If a match was found, EvenMore passed  the  file
onto  the  plugin,  which then processed the file and returned the results. This
system worked well for AmigaE, but when I moved onto the ECX compiler to make  a
MorphOS version of EvenMore, I found it was not able to compile Amiga libraries.
So I had to come up with an alternative method of creating the plugins. Now each
plugin is compiled as an executable file. When EvenMore opens, it launches these
plugins. Each plugin opens a port through which it communicates  with  the  main
program,  and passes information to and from it as necessary. While this uses up
a little more memory than your average plugin system, it is quite  fast  as  the
plugin  code  is  always resident in memory. The only real processor power being
used is to convert the file.

PLUGIN TYPES
============

There are several main types of file plugin that can be  created  for  EvenMore.
Each  of  these  has  a  specific ID tag. They are as follows, and are called by
EvenMore in this order.

                FTYP
                 |
              No-+-Yes
              |
             ARCH
              |
           No-+-Yes
           |     |
          PACK   |
           |     |
          FILE   |
           |     |
        No-+-Yes-+
        |        |
       DTYP      |
        |        |
     No-+-Yes----+
     |           |
    GENE         |
     |           |
  No-+-Yes-------+
  |              |
  +--------------+
                 |
                FRMT

FTYP

The FTYP plugins will be called before the file is  opened  by  EvenMore.  These
plugins  just  check  the  extension  name  of the file to see if it needs to be
passed onto another program specified in  the  filetypes.txt  file  rather  than
opened in EvenMore. For example, PDF files, picture or sound files.

ARCH

ARCH plugins can be used for browsing archived files and  directories.  EvenMore
does  not open the file at this stage, but passes only the name of the file onto
the plugin. It is then up to the plugin to analyze  the  file  and  construct  a
textual  version  of  its  contents  if necessary. There is a subfilename string
which can be set in order to  extract  and  browse  a  particular  file  in  the
archive.

PACK

PACK  plugins  enable  EvenMore  to  open  compressed  files  such  as  XPK  and
PowerPacker.  They  are called before the main file conversion plugins. EvenMore
opens the file and passes it onto these plugins. The plugin  then  analyzes  it,
performs  any  necessary  operations  and  returns  the  buffer back to the main
program. EvenMore then passes  the  updated  buffer  onto  the  file  conversion
plugins.

FILE

The FILE plugins are used to convert  one  document  format  into  another.  For
example,  MSWord  files,  AmigaGuide,  etc into plain text. If the file does not
match the criteria of any of these plugins, it is passed onto the following  two
plugin types.

DTYP

The DTYP plugins will check the file against any text  datatypes  the  user
has installed on the operating system. As these datatypes generally do not allow
for ANSI escape code sequences, they are called after the main  file  conversion
plugins.  But  if  there  is  a  particular filetype you want the DTYP plugin to
handle instead of the FILE plugin, it is just a case of deleting that particular
FILE plugin.

GENE

If the file does not match the  criteria  of  any  of  the  file  conversion  or
datatype  plugins,  it  will  be  checked against the generic plugins. These are
fall-back plugins which will  analyze  the  file  for  ASCII  text  and  discard
anything  that  is  unprintable.  Sometimes this works for more obscure document
formats that do not have a particular plugin made for them.

FRMT

EvenMore will then pass the file onto the FRMT plugins for formatting. Even if a
plugin  has  already  been found for the file, EvenMore will still pass it on to
these plugins. These will make minor formatting changes  to  the  document.  One
such  plugin is the wordwrapping plugin, which ensures that the document appears
in a format that is easy to read.

The other two plugins that EvenMore uses are for controlling the preferences.

MPRF

The MPRF plugin holds the main GUI and  settings  for  the  EvenMore  preference
window.

PREF

The PREF plugins are used for creating additional pages in the preference window
to store settings for specific plugins.

HOW THEY WORK
=============

The plugins are executable  files  that  EvenMore  launches  whenever  the  main
program starts. EvenMore opens a special port called EVENMOREP and then executes
the plugin. The plugin initializes itself and  passes  a  message  back  to  the
EVENMOREP port to signal that it is ready.

When EvenMore is opening a file, it will scan  through  all  the  plugin  ports,
passing a status ID and file information to them. The status ID tells the plugin
what function to execute in relation to the file.

STATUS

-1 -  Close the plugin, EvenMore is quitting

0  -  Not used

1  -  Initialize the plugin, open libraries, etc if necessary

2  -  Examine the filename or file contents to see if we can process it

      RETURNS:

      FALSE - The file did not match the criteria specified
      TRUE  - A match has been found but we do not need to allocate memory, just
              modify the original text buffer in place
      1     - Signal EvenMore to allocate an area of memory for a new file
              buffer
      2     - Signal EvenMore to create a linked list for a new file buffer

3  -  Run the file conversion routine on the file
4  -  Load the plugin preference file
5  -  Save the plugin preference file
6  -  Open the plugin preference GUI
7  -  Return plugin title for the information page

EvenMore used to always allocate a section of memory for  file  conversion,  but
this was unstable because there was a chance the output format could overrun the
buffer allocated. I have tried to get as many of the plugins to use  the  linked
list format as possible, as this memory is dynamically allocated.

I hope this source code can be of some benefit to the Amiga community.


Contents of text/show/EvenMorePlugins.lha
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[unknown]                   12      12 100.0% -lh0- 9235 May  1 20:33 GenericPrefs.config
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[unknown]                 2039    4948  41.2% -lh5- 4ee6 May 10 13:56 macword2text.e
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[unknown]                 2807   12009  23.4% -lh5- cebe May 13 07:24 PageStream2Text.e
[unknown]                 2871    5648  50.8% -lh5- 28c4 Jun 13  2017 pipe2text
[unknown]                 1980    4843  40.9% -lh5- c887 May 10 13:59 Pipe2Text.e
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[unknown]                 3000   11850  25.3% -lh5- d552 May 10 14:04 wordwrap2.e
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