Creating a New Plug-in

Creating, testing, documenting, and releasing a plug-in involves many steps. This section will walk you through each of the steps, giving enough detail to be successful. Don’t worry! While it may look daunting at first, creating a plug-in is not that difficult but it is a bit confusing and tedious. The steps are as follows:

1. Creating the skeleton and creating a GitHub repository for it.

2. Editing the control parameters.

3. Customizing the GUI, if needed.

4. Adding the logic to actually do the work for the step.

   • Describing the results of the calculation.

   • Defining any properties to be saved in the database.

5. Documentation.

6. Releasing the plug-in.