//////////////////////////////////////////////
class Test
{
public:
Test()
{
FILE* f = fopen("D:\\test.txt", "a");
fprintf(f, "hello\n");
fclose(f);
}
};
Test g_test;
////////////////////////////////////////////////
test.txt has only 1 "hello" in it.
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Marc-Andre Belzile
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Right, the original plan was to cache the plugin registration info on disk
> and avoid loading the plugin at every single session. We could also keep all
> plugins in memory after registration like Maya does.
>
> -mab
>
>
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jo benayoun
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 12:28 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: SDK: When *exactly* does XSIUnloadPlugin get called
>
> I guess the plugin is loaded once for discovering and registration (plugin
> manager), and then reloaded for getting the actual features (actual extension
> of features).
> Usually, plugin systems use a specification file for each new plugin (xml or
> other) that is in charge of describing (description, name, version, author,
> ...) and register items (commands, windows, ...) plus the actual plugin where
> the Load and Unload functions are only called once. Wouldnt be great to have
> something similar for XSI ?
>
> -- jo
>
>
>
>
> 2012/10/26 Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> sounds like if you put some code in the constructor of a global
> variable, then you'd be called twice per xsi session, since your dll
> will be loaded and unloaded twice?
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Marc-Andre Belzile
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> wrote:
>> Sorry for not being clear enough. When a plugin is loaded at startup or
>> through LoadPlugin, all plugin items are registered through XSILoadPlugin
>> and then the dll is unloaded by XSI *without* calling XSIUnloadPlugin.
>> Anything allocated in the current dll process will be zapped by the OS at
>> this point. The plugin dll will be loaded back again when one of the
>> registered plugin item is required by XSI, and in this case XSILoadPlugin
>> *won't* be called again. So if you allocated objects or resources in the
>> plugin dll process through XSILoadPlugin, they will not be available when
>> the dll is loaded back.
>>
>> -mab
>
