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<h4 class="subsubsection"> 4.3.1.9 Plugin Discovery </h4>
<p>At program launch time, <small>SCF</small> discovers plugins automatically by searching a
set of directories, and creates an internal database associating available
<small>SCF</small> class names with the plugin modules which implement them. The
directories which <small>SCF</small> searches by default are:
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<li>
The application resource directory as returned by <code>csGetResourceDir()</code>.
On most platforms, this is the same as the directory containing the
application, however, on MacOS/X, it is the <tt>‘Resources’</tt> directory within
the Cocoa application wrapper.
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The directory containing the application (or containing the Cocoa application
wrapper for MacOS/X) as returned by <code>csGetAppDir()</code>.
</li><li>
The installed Crystal Space resource directories as returned by
<code>csGetConfigPath()</code>. This is often the value of the <samp>‘CRYSTAL’</samp>
environment variable, or the <samp>‘CrystalSpaceRoot’</samp> default setting on MacOS/X
(which is often stored within the <samp>‘NSGlobalDomain’</samp> domain).
</li></ul>
<p>If you would like <small>SCF</small> to scan additional directories, you can invoke
either of these two functions:
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<li>
<code>scfInitialize (csPluginPaths const*)</code>
</li><li>
<code>iSCF::ScanPluginsPath(char const*, bool, char const*)</code>
</li></ul>
<p>Finally, if need to manually register a single plugin module with <small>SCF</small> for
which you know the native pathname (not a <small>VFS</small> pathname), you can invoke
<code>iSCF::RegisterPlugin()</code>.
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