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6 The ARTE Plugins

You can easily create new plugins to be used by the ARTE framework, so that the standard commands in the TCL language are extended with a new ‘Plugin dictionary’ (new TCL commands).

The procedure shown here explains how to create a new plugin for ARTE and include it to be compiled along with the Core and the generic plugin. Non built-in plugins may also be created without much problem, as the API of the plugin is fixed and installed with the Core.