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  • Choose Tools » Plugin Manager to open the Plugin manager (Figure 1);
  • Click Add and in the plugins folder (usually C:\Program Files\eWater\Source version\Plugins), select ; and
  • Select the plugin and click Open; and.

Click Close to close the dialog. 

Figure 1. Plugin manager

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Note: If a plugin is required to run the project, but not loaded, an error appears asking if you want to keep loading the project without loading the plugin first. If the plugin is important to the project, Source might have problems running. The error tells you the name of the plugin that was used. An example of this is shown in Figure 2, indicating that the HargreavesET plugin is missing.

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When you install Source, instructions for writing your own plugins are included along with a series of templates to help you get started. Under

Operating systemStandard plugin location
Windows XP

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C:\Program Files\Source n.n.n.n\Plugins\ExamplePlugins.zip

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Windows 7

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C:\Program Files\eWater\Source n.n.n.n\Plugins\ExamplePlugins.zip

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where n.n.n.n

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 is the version number

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of Source. 

If you boot Windows from a different hard disk drive or have otherwise customised your installation, you should make the necessary adjustments.

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  • Right click on the dll file in Explorer and choose Properties (Figure 3);
  • At the bottom of this window will be comment along the lines of ‘this file has been downloaded from the internet and has been blocked to protect this computer’. Click Unblock at Click Unblock at the bottom of the screen, then OKthen OK;
  • The plugin can then be loaded as normal in Source.

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