Starting an Extension on Startup

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Sunday 19 November 2006 11:24, George wrote:
> I'm writing an extension to Thuban, and what I want to be able to do is
> have the extension start working as soon as Thuban is loaded - similar
> to what I would have done with a startup script in Arcview 3. To do this
> I need a copy of the context object but there doesn't seem to be a way
> of getting this other than wait until it's passed as a result of the
> menu item being clicked.
>
> Am I correct in thinking this?

Currently an extension needs to be imported
from ~/.thuban/thubanstart.py anyway.
During this import __init__.py is executed where you can do as much as you 
want.

Thuban in itself is event driven, so nothing happens unless the user
does something (e.g. like click on a menu button or so).

We discussed plans a while ago where extensions should just be loaded,
if they are in a special path, because the importing from thubanstart.py
is not the maximum of comforts. Right now this is not implemented.

What do you want to archieve, maybe this makes it easier to give 
you some hints. :)

Best,
Bernhard

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