Automaticcally create instance of all plugins available to python interface

BasePlugin/PythonInterface.hh

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ class PythonInterface {
 
    namespace py = pybind11;
 
-   PYBIND11_EMBEDDED_MODULE(yourPlugin, m) {  // yourPlugin will will be the module name in Python ( ... import yourPlugin )
+   PYBIND11_EMBEDDED_MODULE(YourPlugin, m) {  // yourPlugin will will be the module name in Python ( ... import yourPlugin )
 
      QObject* pluginPointer = getPluginPointer("Your");  // This will retrieve your plugin instance pointer. The name is the plugin name set via the name() function.
 

PythonInterpreter/PythonInterpreter.cc

@@ -219,7 +219,22 @@ void PythonInterpreter::resetInterpreter()
 
 bool PythonInterpreter::runScript(QString _script) {
 
+#ifdef PYTHON_DEBUG
   std::cerr << "runScript" << std::endl;
+#endif
+
+  //============================================================
+  // Prepend module instance getter to the script
+  //============================================================
+
+  _script.prepend("core = openflipper.Core()\n");
+
+  QStringList pythonPlugins = getPythonPlugins();
+
+  for ( int i = 0 ; i < pythonPlugins.size() ; ++i ) {
+      QString import = pythonPlugins[i].toLower() + " = " + pythonPlugins[i] + "." + pythonPlugins[i] + "()\n";
+      _script.prepend(import);
+  }
 
   // init
   try
@@ -309,7 +324,7 @@ PYBIND11_EMBEDDED_MODULE(openflipper, m) {
 
   // Export our core. Make sure that the c++ worlds core objet is not deleted if
   // the python side gets deleted!!
-  py::class_<Core,std::unique_ptr<Core, py::nodelete>> core(m, "core");
+  py::class_<Core,std::unique_ptr<Core, py::nodelete>> core(m, "Core");
 
   // On the c++ side we will just return the existing core instance
   // and prevent the system to recreate a new core as we need

widgets/pythonWidget/pythonWidget.cc

@@ -83,12 +83,15 @@ PythonWidget::PythonWidget(QWidget *parent )
 #ifdef PYTHON_ENABLED
   pythonInfo->setAlignment(Qt::AlignLeft);
 
-  pythonInfo->append("Plugins with Python support ( The plugin modules will be imported with their name shown below.):\n");
+
+  pythonInfo->append("Each module is automatically loaded by the core with the name given below.");
+  pythonInfo->append("An instance for each plugin is automatically generated with a lower case name of the module (E.g. the plugin Move will provide an instance move).\n");
+  pythonInfo->append("Available plugins with Python support:\n");
 
   QStringList pythonPlugins = getPythonPlugins();
 
   for ( int i = 0 ; i < pythonPlugins.size() ; ++i ) {
-    pythonInfo->append("   " + pythonPlugins[i] );
+    pythonInfo->append("Module " + pythonPlugins[i] + "\t\t providing instance " + pythonPlugins[i].toLower());
   }
 
   PythonInterpreter* interpreter = PythonInterpreter::getInstance();