Seems so simple now you say that! And I would just make it so that these functions don't show up in the functions list!
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> A few of my plug-ins make use of "Constants" .. like our SMTPit
> Plug-in has a "constant" named "SMTPit_Append" that evaluates to "True".
> But there's nothing special about it. It's just a function like any
> other plug-in function, it just doesn't take any parameters and returns
> the same value all the time.
>
> As far as the name of your "constants", I would suggest making sure
> they are unique. You wouldn't want to register a function named
> something like "FirstName" because someone might have a field named that
> or something. I use the same prefix on my constants that I do on my
> normal plug-in functions (eg. "SMTPit_" or "POP3it_").
>
> I hope this helps,
> Jake
>
> adam.dempsey wrote:
> >
> >
> > Is it possible to somehow create my own plugin parameter constants that
> > can be passed without being literal text in speech marks.
> >
> > eg atm to pass parameters I have to use:
> >
> > Plugin_Function("first-parameter", "second-parameter")
> >
> > But it would be good if I could have a list of accepted parameters in my
> > plugin which can be passed without being in speech marks, as True and
> > False can for example.
> >
> > So if in my plugin I register "first-parameter" and "second-parameter"
> > as valid parameters, this would be valid:
> >
> > Plugin_Function(first-parameter, second-parameter)
> >
> > But this would give an error, similar to when you have an incorrect
> > number of params etc:
> >
> > Plugin_Function(first-parameter, invalid-parameter)
> >
> > Is anything like this possible or do text parameters have to be passed
> > in speech marks?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >
>
> --
> Jake Traynham
> Owner, CNS Plug-ins
>
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