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How To Install a 3rd Party Plugin In the Revolution IDE

This lesson will show you how to install a plugin. Plugins are installed in the plugins folder of your Revolution User Extensions folder.

Locate The User Extensions Folder

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In the Files & Memory preferences pane you can find the full path to the User Extensions folder. Open this folder in your system file browser.

Add Plugin to Plugins Folder

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In the User Extensions folder (1) you will find (or you need to create) a plugins folder (2). Place the plugin stack in this folder (3) and then launch Revolution.

Access Plugin From the Development Menu

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Once you launch Revolution you can access your plugin from the Development menu.

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Thursday Jun 16 at 02:19 PM Dan Shafer

It might be worth pointing out that one can change that default location of the My LiveCode folder. It may be obvious, but perhaps not to everyone?

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