Altap Salamander SDK

The Altap Salamander SDK is set of tools, documentation and code samples you need to create plugins (add-ons) that can run inside Altap Salamander.

What's new in 2.54 SDK

New DemoMenu plugin: it is really the simplest plugin possible, it only adds one item to Plugins menu, please do not hesitate and try to use it as base for your own menu extension plugins.
New DemoView plugin: simple base for your viewer plugins.
Source code of UnFAT plugin was published in this SDK. We believe you will find here most of needed techniques for building your own archiver plugins.

We recommend to use Altap Salamander 2.54 (SDK) which is available in SDK package to test your plugins because it contains trace messages helpful for plugins development. These messages are collected by Altap Trace Server which is enclosed to this version of Salamander and can be auto-started whenever you start this version of Salamander. You can also log trace messages to file in TEMP directory, see Salamander's Window Menu (click on icon in upper left corner of main window).

Requirements

Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows 7.
Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 and 2010 (including Express Edition), or Borland C++ Builder 6.0, 2009, or 2010.
Or Delphi compiler with unofficial SDK for Delphi.
Microsoft HTML Help Workshop 1.3 as help compiler (optional).

Note: due to lack of time the documentation is available only in Czech as comments in the header files.

If you want to develop plugins for Altap Salamander 2.5, 2.51, and 2.52 easiest way is to use Altap Salamander 2.5 SDK (plugins for version 2.5 works also with all 2.5x versions). If you need to use newer SDK, you can still make your plugin backward compatible with version 2.5, see salamand\plugins\shared\doc\compatibility.txt in SDK.

Downloads

Altap Salamander 2.54 SDK
Altap Salamander 2.52 SDK
Altap Salamander 2.51 SDK
Altap Salamander 2.5 SDK

Feedback

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