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27 <p class="p1"><b>Using Extensions</b></p>
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29 <p class="p3"><span class="s1">See also: <a href="Writing-Classes.html"><span class="s2">Writing-Classes</span></a><b><span class="Apple-converted-space">    </span></b><a href="Writing_Unit_Generators.html"><span class="s2">Writing_Unit_Generators</span></a></span><span class="s3"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s4"> <a href="Quarks/Quarks.html"><span class="s5">Quarks</span></a></span></p>
30 <p class="p2"><br></p>
31 <p class="p4">SC supports extensions to its class library, documentation, and server UGen plugins. Extensions should be packaged as a single folder containing all three (for convenient addition or removal), or any combination, which can then be placed in platform-specific extension directories in order to be included.</p>
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33 <p class="p6"><b>Platform Specific Directories</b></p>
34 <p class="p5"><br></p>
35 <p class="p4">You can install extensions simply by copying the extensions to the following location:</p>
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37 <p class="p4"><b>User-specific</b></p>
38 <p class="p4">OSX<b><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></b>~/Library/Application Support/SuperCollider/Extensions/</p>
39 <p class="p4">Linux<b><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></b>~/share/SuperCollider/Extensions/</p>
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41 <p class="p7"><span class="s6">Platform</span>.userExtensionDir</p>
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43 <p class="p5"><br></p>
44 <p class="p4"><b>System-wide (apply to all users)</b></p>
45 <p class="p4">OSX<b><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></b>/Library/Application Support/SuperCollider/Extensions/</p>
46 <p class="p4">Linux<b><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></b>/usr/local/share/SuperCollider/Extensions/</p>
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48 <p class="p7"><span class="s6">Platform</span>.systemExtensionDir</p>
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51 <p class="p6"><b>How Extensions Folders Should be Organised</b></p>
52 <p class="p5"><br></p>
53 <p class="p4">Class files and UGen plugins are recognised by their file extensions (.sc for the former and .scx or .sco for the latter). Anything placed within a folder named help/ or ignore/ (case insensitive) will be ignored when compiling the class library or loading plugins, but anything in the former will be added to the search path for help files.</p>
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55 <p class="p4">Here is an example folder layout:</p>
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57 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>MyExtension/</p>
58 <p class="p5"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span></p>
59 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>classes/</p>
60 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>myClass.sc <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>myUGens.sc</p>
61 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>plugins/</p>
62 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>myUGenPlugins.scx</p>
63 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>help/</p>
64 <p class="p4"><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>myClass.html <span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>myUGen1.html<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>myUGen2.html</p>
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