Manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Creating and Redistributing LNS Device Plug ins
- 3 How Plug ins Work with Directors
- How Plug ins Are Represented in the LNS Object Server
- How Plug ins are Installed and Made Visible to LNS
- How Plug ins Implement the Registration Command
- How Plug ins Respond to Commands from a Director Other than Registration
- How Directors Launch and Manipulate Plug ins
- What Plug ins Do When They Run in Standalone Mode
- Responding to Property Reads and Writes
- Uninstallation Issues
- Appendix A Standard Plug in Commands
- Appendix B Standard Plug in Properties
- Appendix C Standard Plug in Object Classes
- Appendix D Standard Plug in Exceptions
The following table lists the standard LNS plug-in properties. Note that the property names
CharacterEncoding and LanguageId are reserved for future use.
Name Type Description
Height Long The height, in pixels, of the plug-in’s main window.
LcaVersion Read-Only
String
Minimum version of the LNS Server redistribution
required by this plug-in.
Left Long The x location, in pixels, of the upper left corner of
the plug-in’s main window. 0 is at the leftmost of
the user’s display.
ManufacturerID Read-Only
String
An identifier that is unique to each LONWORKS
device manufacturer. Manufacturer IDs may be one
of two types: standard manufacturer IDs and
temporary manufacturer IDs.
Standard manufacturer IDs are assigned to
manufacturers when they join the L
ONMARK
Interoperability Association, and are also published
by the L
ONMARK Interoperability Association so
that the device manufacturer of a L
ONMARK
certified device or plug-in is easily identified.
Standard manufacturer IDs are never reused or
reassigned.
Temporary manufacturer IDs are available to
anyone on request by filling out a simple form at
http://www.lonmark.org/technical_resources/temp_
mid_request.
If your company is a L
ONMARK member, but you do
not know your manufacturer ID, you can find your
ID in the list of manufacturer IDs at
http://www.lonmark.org/spid. The most current list
at the time of release of the NodeBuilder tool is also
included with the NodeBuilder software. If your
company is not a L
ONMARK member, get a
manufacturer ID at
www.lonmark.org/mid.
ManufacturerName Read-Only
String
The name of the company that wrote this plug-in.
Minimized Boolean Specifies whether the plug-in is minimized (True) or
not (False). Setting the property sets the plug-in’s
main window state.