Plugin guide

Plugins allow you to extend FreeSewing with new features and functionality. A FreeSewing plugin can extend FreeSewing in 3 different ways:

• It can provide macros, which are a way to automate a number of steps into a single command.
• It can hook into the pattern, which allows you to manipulate the pattern or interact with it at various stages of it’s lifecycle.
• It can provide store methods, which allows you to add new ways to handle data in the pattern, including providing a custom logger.

We have a list of plugins that we maintain, but if you can’t find what you’re looking for, you can write your own plugin.

If you plan on doing that or if you would like to understand how plugins work, this guide is for you.

We’ll cover the following topics:

• Plugin structure
• Lifecycle hook methods
• Macro methods
• Store methods
• Loading plugins