Itunes plugin does use SetSearchParameters method that no longer exists (at least from what i can see) but that didn't compile for me because I don't have itunes libraries installed.
So to write a plugin I used the suplied Visual Studio template for FARR plugin project, created a new project and that's it.
Most of my plugin logic is in the classes that derive from ActionList and ActionItem.
In the class that derives from FARRCSharpPluginBase override the method SetGeneralInfoParameters to set general parameters of the plugin (plugin name, creator, icon etc.)
In the constructor of the class that derives from ActionList call the base constructor and pass it pluginBase object and regex to activate the plugin as string. Like this:
public ClipboardList(FARRCSharpPluginBase pluginBase)
: base(pluginBase, "^clip")
{
}
In the GetActionsCount method I fill my results into SourceList. SourceList is defined as List<ActionItem> in ActionList class that I derived from. Results are of type ActionItem (or any derived class).
Use the constructor of ActionItem derived class to initialize the item. I did a clipboard plugin so i passed it some text that I read from a file as an argument.
Override the GetDataRaw and Execute methods. In GetDataRaw you define what will be written in Path and Group variables of the result. And Execute method defines what happens when user executes an item.
You need to override the CaptionRaw property to set the Caption that is displayed in result list.
use pluginbase.ExecuteFarrCommand () method to pass commands to farr.
And that's mostly it, I hope that this isn't as confusing as I think it is.
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