Sub plugin is not activating

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Godot Version

4.7

Question

I’d like to develop an addon that provides two main windows. However, it looks like a single addon can only provide one. However, I it also seems that Godot addons can have multiple sub-addons (Making plugins — Godot Engine (stable) documentation in English). I’ve set up a simple project that has one main plugin and a subplugin that should provide a main screen window:

The issue I’m having is that the subplugin does not seem to ever get added to the editor. The _enable_plugin() method of my sub plugin does not even seem to be being called. Am I doing something wrong here?

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Did you enable the sub-plugin in your main plugin’s script like explained in the documentation you linked? (Just double checking..)

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Yes. My main plugin makes the calls:

my_plugin.gd

func _enable_plugin() -> void:
	EditorInterface.set_plugin_enabled("my_plugin/my_main_screen_plugin", true)
	pass


func _disable_plugin() -> void:
	EditorInterface.set_plugin_enabled("my_plugin/my_main_screen_plugin", false)
	pass
4

Huh. Didn’t know you could make sub plugins. What’s your directory structure look like?

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6

What’s in your plugin.cfg inside the my_plugin folder?

7

All of this is in the zip file I attached to the first message.

my_plugin/plugin.cfg:

[plugin]

name="my_plugin"
description=""
author=""
version=""
script="my_plugin.gd"

my_plugin/my_main_screen_plugin/plugin.cfg:

[plugin]

name="my_main_screen_plugin"
description=""
author=""
version=""
script="my_main_screen_plugin.gd"
8

Those look ok. Except based on the documentation, I don’t thing you can have a second plugin script in the subfolder. So put whatever it’s doing in the main script.

Also, I’d add version info, and something in the description and author fields.

9

Not everyone wants to open zip files from a Google drive. My phone also can’t. I think your solution is ready by the way. No nesting :wink:

10

TBH, I have Google Drive blindness. I’ve conditioned myself never to click those links, so I didn’t even notice it.

11

Okay. I’d have uploaded it here, but they don’t allow you to embed zip files. I was thinking of making a bug report, but wanted to check here in case I missed something silly.

Creating bug report: