FME_INIT

Description

The FME_INIT event is triggered before the FM dialog is displayed.
To activate this event you need to use "(Dialog)?: (initevent)?".
You can use the previous value to check if the plug-in is executed for the first
time in the host. In that case (previous)?==false.

Remarks:

1) Using the instruction setDialogEvent(1) allows also to enable the FME_INIT event.
However, it isn't recommended to use that by default, as it won't work for the very first launch of the plug-in.

2) For your convenience, this event is also triggered each time you recompile the code of your plug-in.

Example

%ffp
Dialog: initevent

OnCtl(n): {
    if (e==FME_INIT) {
        if (!previous) Info("plug-in launched for first time");
        else Info("plug-in just launched or recompiled");
    }
    return false;
}

Also see

FME_CANCEL, (previous)?, setDialogEvent,(initevent)?, (Dialog)?

Comments

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