Feature wish: Adding scripting capabilities to PL/SQL Developer

[CTzen]

It's a lowest priority wish, I think.

To make it easier to extend PL/SQL Developer features it would be nice to write plug-ing in some kind of scripting language, e.g. JavaScript, Ruby, Python etc. We can call it scripting plug-ins or something

I'm not sure how difficult it would be to add this feature. I'm also thinking that it can be done rather as a regular plug-in then part of PL/SQL Developer itself. In this case if somebody doesn't need it, it can be disabled, so there is no performance hit.

 

[ScottMattes]

Agreed, low priority.

But, it would be a lot nicer than having to have Delphi to write a plug-in.

 

[Marco Kalter]

Nice idea. We'll give it some thought.

 

[Edwin Teisman]

I often use Macromedia Homesite, specifically because this tool has that capacity.

There its possible to create toolbuttons or shortcuts and then attach an *.vbs script that will be executed on pressing the button.
This script has access to a number of objects inside the application, such as windows.

Theoreticaly this can be achieved using MS's scripting control.
It requires that a proper object model be created for the PL/SQL developer.
This should then be wrapped inside a COM dll.
MS Script container can then be used to load and run the script against the application.

Actually it would probably be possible to write an add-in that exposes the know API via a COM object model. This would allow scripting as well.

This is an old technique though.
Wit .NET there may be newer ways of achieving scripting an application.