General way of adding a cvar to disable/enable a plugin?
 

Hi everyone,

I want some plugins on our servers to interact with each other. That means that the one plugin may enable/disable another plugin. Since some of the plugins aren't being developed any further I wanted to change some of them so that I have a cvar to disable/enable that plugin.

Is there a general way of achieving this or does that always depend on the plugin?

Thanks. :)

Re: General way of adding a cvar to disable/enable a plugin?
 

Convars or natives is my guess.

Re: General way of adding a cvar to disable/enable a plugin?
 

It's depending on the plugin. You must investigate the code and find where the functions apply.
I was faced with the same problem with myjailbreak and ended with a mix of creating convars & natives. Whether you use natives or convars is depending on the plugins & the way they need to interact with each other.

Re: General way of adding a cvar to disable/enable a plugin?
 

Thanks for the answer, just wanted to make sure that I don't start getting into the code and in the end i didn't even need to.
I'll have to try to get it working with one convar in the end, because the best way for my other plugins would be if they could just change that one.

Re: General way of adding a cvar to disable/enable a plugin?
 

I mean, you should always have some sort of algorithm or plan before you start doing anything.


If you have a plugin in which you want to create a convar to disable it, just don't allow it's commands & gameplay modifications to be called if the convar says it should be disabled. For example, in command callbacks just tell the user it's disabled. Simple stuff like that

Re: General way of adding a cvar to disable/enable a plugin?
 

or, or, or..
FindConVar

Re: General way of adding a cvar to disable/enable a plugin?
 

Yes, I wanted to do it somewhat like that, because the plugin consists of multiple files and I'd need always to check that specific cvar, right?

Re: General way of adding a cvar to disable/enable a plugin?
 

Yeah, you could run FindConVar on OnAllPluginsLoaded, assign a global Handle to it then HookConVarChange that Handle