The defaults for OpenAlias are set up such that it is not necessary to do anything before using plug-ins. However, you may want to set up your OpenAlias environment with the configurable options in the Alias Preferences window. These items are both set to appropriate defaults so they do not need to be changed before using plug-ins in Alias. The configurable items are:
This colon-delimited path is used to search for plug-ins specified in the auto-load list and by the searching routines of the Plug-in Manager window. Set the search path in the Miscellaneous section of the General Preferences window.
By default this path on Wnidows is:
.:$ALIAS_LOCATION/ODS/OpenAlias/plugins
which causes $ALIAS_WORKENV (or the directory Alias was launched from if $ALIAS_WORKENV is not set - Alias does an implicit change of directory to $ALIAS_WORKENV when it starts) to be searched first, followed by the directory containing the example plug-ins. Any number of directories can be listed with each searched in turn until a plug-in is found. Note that this default path is one of many that are searched for plug-ins.
The Messages popup allows the selection of Full (verbose) or Brief messages. In Full message mode, detailed information will be written to the errlog file if there is an error during the loading or unloading of plug-ins.
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