API Overview

If you're proficient in Cocoa programming, and you own at least the Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) developer tools with Xcode, creating a RapidWeaver plugin is fairly easy.

For the purpose of learning how to develop RapidWeaver plugins, You can download the source code for a simple Hello World example. It makes use of the RWPluginUtilities framework to abide by RapidWeaver plugin protocol.

We have also included comprehensive comments to some of the header files in RWPluginUtilities.framework. These should help you along in determining how to use what in constructing your plugin.

After you've built a plugin, you can install it by putting the plugin in RapidWeaver's application support directory:

~/Library/Application Support/RapidWeaver/