Lifecycle of a plugin

[Chris De Boeck]

Hi,

Can someone tell me where to find some info on the lifecycle of a plugin?
Like f.e. the following methods are provided by default:

• pluginInit
• pluginCleanUp
• commandMenuInit
• commandMenuCleanUp

But when are these called? During startup of notepad++ or every time the plugin is used?

Sorry if I missed this info somewhere.

Thank you

[Ekopalypse]

@Chris-De-Boeck

All this is not needed from a plugin.
See here for a description of what a plugin needs to export.

[Ekopalypse]

@Chris-De-Boeck
I think I understand where this is coming from.
The functions you pointed out are the ones used in the C++ demo, which are just handy functions to make it easier to create a plugin.
What needs to be exported from a plugin is defined here.
These are the methods that are called by Npp when a plugin is loaded (once, at startup).

[Chris De Boeck]

@Ekopalypse said in Lifecycle of a plugin:

@Chris-De-Boeck
These are the methods that are called by Npp when a plugin is loaded (once, at startup).

Thanks, that’s clear now.