How do I re-enable all my plugins quickly after I've disabled all of them?

[mkanet]

When I'm working on a plugin, the first thing I do is disable all plugins before I start making changes. However, after I'm done, I'd like to easily re-enable all my plugins back. I cant find an option to do that; and, end up having to re-enable all the plugins one by one. Maybe I'm missing something very basic?

Thanks,
Michael

[GKusnick]

As far as I know there's no built-in way to enable more than one plugin at a time. In principle it would be possible to create a plugin to save and restore plugin enable states en masse, but I don't know of an existing plugin that does this.

My Studio Tools plugin includes a command for quickly enabling and disabling multiple STVI plugins in one go from within Studio. This is what I use to manage plugins during STVI development. Note that it does not disable all plugins, just the ones that would interfere with STV file comparison and STVI generation. (In particular I do not want it to disable the Studio Tools plugin and its dependencies.)

[mkanet]

Thanks Greg, I'll just do it through your studio tools. It looks like your command to disable is no different than then one available via sageTV plugin menu settings.. it disables only the ones that would interfere with STV file comparison. I thought it was odd though there wasn't a respective one for re-enabling them back.

-Michael

Originally Posted by GKusnick

As far as I know there's no built-in way to enable more than one plugin at a time. In principle it would be possible to create a plugin to save and restore plugin enable states en masse, but I don't know of an existing plugin that does this.

My Studio Tools plugin includes a command for quickly enabling and disabling multiple STVI plugins in one go from within Studio. This is what I use to manage plugins during STVI development. Note that it does not disable all plugins, just the ones that would interfere with STV file comparison and STVI generation. (In particular I do not want it to disable the Studio Tools plugin and its dependencies.)

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by mkanet

I thought it was odd though there wasn't a respective one for re-enabling them back.

I think the idea is that it's meant for isolating plugin misbehavior. You disable them all and then re-enable them one by one to find the culprit.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by GKusnick

My Studio Tools plugin includes a command for quickly enabling and disabling multiple STVI plugins in one go from within Studio. This is what I use to manage plugins during STVI development. Note that it does not disable all plugins, just the ones that would interfere with STV file comparison and STVI generation. (In particular I do not want it to disable the Studio Tools plugin and its dependencies.)

Another reason I love your Studio Tools. Thanks again for this indispensable development tool.