Managing Plugins

Use the Plugins page in the Backstage view to access options for managing plugin control assemblies to have them available for use in Canvas.

You have two options for accessing plugins:

• Add new plugins — Click (Add plugin) to access an Open File dialog box to navigate to a desired plugin .dll file. Once selected, click Open to bring the file into Canvas for use on your screens. A plugin .dll can be located in any Windows file-system folder accessible to Canvas.
• Add existing plugins — Click (<plugin_name>) to view properties of the selected plugin control assembly currently available for use on your screens.

  Once a plugin has been named and saved, its name appears on the list in your Plugins view.

  All plugins are listed in the the canvas.plugins file.

Occasionally you might want to remove a previously added plugin.

• Delete plugins — After adding a plugin, you might discover that the new addition is causing problems, and decide you want to remove it. To remove it, do the following:
  • Delete only a plugin from the plugins file:
  1. In the Backstage view, click Settings and then Settings folder to open the location of your settings files.
  2. Close Canvas.
  3. Find the canvas.plugins file and open it with a text editor.
  4. Locate the section of the XML file containing the plugin you want to remove, and delete it.

     • Delete from <CanvasPlugin> to </CanvasPlugin>

  5. Save the canvas.plugins file.
  6. Reopen Canvas and the plugin will be gone.