CudSpan and other Plug-Ins for FM 9

[Pinkham, Jim]

Art, thanks for the sound advice. Chris, thanks for pointing me to your updates. Definitely appreciate your meaningful contribution to all of us with the FM freeware.

Regards,
Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:53 AM
To: Pinkham, Jim
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: CudSpan and other Plug-Ins for FM 9

I've always just copied the \Plugins directory, but I haven't gone directly from 7 to 9 -- I also had 8 in the path and went from 7 > 8 and 8 > 9.
So I'd make a copy of the naked 9 \Plug-ins directory, then add the contents of the 7 directory and see what happens. Because a number of years have elapsed, I wouldn't expect all of them to work, but that said, most plug-ins will make the leap, although those that do text manipulation that includes Unicode characters or file format manipulation probably have been re-engineered and re-released.

Worst case is you need to visit the sites of the plug ins that don't work and download a newer version.

I'd make sure you have all FM updates installed before you play with the plugins.


Art Campbell
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Pinkham, Jim <Jim.Pinkham at voith.com> wrote:
> I've finally taken the plunge from FM 7 to FM 9, and I'm wondering 
> about the smoothest path for migrating the plug-ins. I've got a couple 
> of
> questions:
>
> 1. I know Chris sometimes frequents our lists, so perhaps he or 
> another can confirm whether the CudSpan plug-ins work with FM 9. I've 
> seen that his web site mentions FM 8, but not FM 9. In case cud 
> doesn't see this right away: Are any of you using these tools with FM 
> 9, and if so, without mishap?
>
> 2. In general, what is the best way to move plug-ins to a new 
> installation of FM? Any guidelines to follow? Errors to avoid? Any 
> earlier FM plug-ins that have proven notoriously problematic? I've got 
> Archive, RoboMIF, SetPrint, Paragraph and Table Tools, the freeware 
> pieces of Toolbox, and perhaps one or two others.
>
> Thoughts and insights gratefully accepted :)
>
> Jim
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