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PL/SQL Developer Plug-In interface Documentation Version 2.10 of PL/SQL Developer introduced a Plug-In interface. The purpose of this interface is easy external addition of new functionality to PL/SQL Developer. Plug-Ins should be used to add functions to PL/SQL Developer that are not very well suited as built-in functions. Reasons to build a Plug-In could be to add some company or product specific functions. You could also consider to build commercial Plug-Ins (no license fee required). We will distribute some Plug-Ins of our own on our web site (several interfaces to version control systems), we can also promote yours (commercial or not) if you wish. A Plug-In is a DLL, so if you are using a programming language that can create DLL’s, you can create PL/SQL Developer Plug-Ins. On startup PL/SQL Developer will check certain directories for *.dll files which will be loaded if certain key functions are available. If one or more Plug-Ins are found, the configuration menu item is enabled which allows an end-user to activate or de-activate Plug-Ins. The interface is built in C++ style. This means that if you are using a non C++ language (like Delphi) you should make sure that you force all calls (export functions and callbacks) to the C++ calling convention. To prevent programming language incompatibilities we limited the number of different parameters to three, Boolean (32 bit), Integer (32 bit) and zero terminated strings. If you should find a bug or if you have wishes for additional functions, just let us know and we will try to improve the interface. We’ll make sure however that any modifications to the interface will be upward compatible. Basic functions There are ten functions that can be exported from the DLL. Three of these functions are required for PL/SQL Developer to recognize a DLL as a Plug-In. Below are the basic functions to create a functional Plug-In. NOTE: Starting in version 500, only the IdentifyPlugIn function is required as a necessary