Caching a Quick Drop Plugin

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(I decided to make this its own topic in case anyone wanted to search on it later etc...)

With the help of Darren (well, he did most of the work really) I have been able to cache my Quick Drop plugin.

The reason I wanted to cache the plugin was to decrease the wait to load the plugin each time.

This wait was just long enough to be annoying (and hey, to be honest I am just not that patient to start with).

And is due to the plugin containing a UI, libraries and classes etc...

Here is some side chatter in the Community (darkside) about caching a plugin if you want to check it out.

The plugin uses VIs from a VI Analyser toolkits to maintain the QD's VIs reference between LabVIEW application instances (as the reference was becoming corrupt)

There is also some handshaking to keep the launcher in memory so as to stop the spawned VI from going out of memory or not load the UI (another issue I had) - this was the easiest form of handshaking

So if you are interested please check out the latest version:

Known Issues:

When the plugin is cached, the Getting Started Window (GSW) will not appear as a VI is still 'open'. I currently to do not have a work around for this, only to use (Ctrl + Shift + X) on a call to the plugin to uncache it and then the GSW will appear.

If you have any feedback please post.

Check it out the increase in speed, quick enough I say:

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Known Issues:

When the plugin is cached, the Getting Started Window (GSW) will not appear as a VI is still 'open'. I currently to do not have a work around for this, only to use (Ctrl + Shift + X) on a call to the plugin to uncache it and then the GSW will appear.

I managed to fix this issue now, thanks to Christina's post.

My experiment of caching a Quick Drop Plugin is now complete!