Advanced Plugin Manager - Reloaded

Advanced Plugin Manager - Reloaded v2.6

The original Advanced Plugin Manager was written by KirbyDE (found here). He expressed that this was not a release he intended to make into a full-fledged mod, and it also contained some bugs.
When I first saw the thread over at vB.com posted by Live Wire, he had photoshopped the Template Manager to indicate how Products and Plugins could work with this interface. I quite liked the idea, so I decided to make it so.
A week and one permission from Kirby later, I can present to you this Extension.

Features:

• Mimicks the Template Manager in pretty much every sense
• "Flag" Plugins for export/deletion
• Remembers the expanded products indefinetely
• Remembers the "flagged" plugins indefinetely
• Automatically de-flags plugins when they have been exported/deleted.
• Plugins that are subject to a disabled Product are marked as disabled themselves at runtime. Their TRUE state (as stored in the database) remains untouched.
• Mass deletion of "flagged" plugins
• Mass export of "flagged" plugins
• Working "Save & Reload" button (Credits to Kirby for fixing it)
• Shortcut to "Add / Import Product"
• Fully phrased
• NO Code Modifications needed!

Note:
This Extension will require page reloads for pretty much all its actions, as the Template Manager does. If you do not like this, please use Kirby's version.
Kirby does in no way support this version, nor do I support his.
Important! You need to uninstall Kirby's version before installing mine, should you choose my version.

Screenshots attached in 2nd post.

Install instructions:

1. Click install (you want your precious support, don't you? ).
2. Upload the files.
3. Import the Product XML file through your ACP.
4. Enjoy.

Upgrade instructions:

1. Upload all files again.
2. Import new product XML.
3. Enjoy the improvements.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

Then why aren't there any blank lines in the Styles Manager?

Exactly what I was going to ask. The styles manager works as expected.

[Revan]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

Then why aren't there any blank lines in the Styles Manager?

*points to the attachment*
You were saying?

[Kirk Y]

I thought you were talking about the Style Manager having all the blanks... I can live with a blank after an expanded group, that looks good as it seperates it from the next one.

[Revan]

Um you might wanna ahve a look at how it looks now, because it doesnt have a space where you think it does.
Its currently:
Product
*space*[indent and then its plugins]

[Andreas]

Originally Posted by Oblivion Knight

This is the way that is should have always been.

Definitly not - in my opinion.
I really, really dislike the Style Manager.
It's visual appearance is good, but for every action it RELOADS.
And it doesn't save expanded state *big tumbs down*

[Kirk Y]

It saves the expanded state of whichever group the template you edited was in.

Originally Posted by Revan

Um you might wanna ahve a look at how it looks now, because it doesnt have a space where you think it does.
Its currently:
Product
*space*[indent and then its plugins]

Huh? Did you update or... huh?

Edit: Ahh... okay I see what you're talking about. But the carraige return between each product is what needs to be removed...

[Andreas]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

It saves the expanded state of whichever group the template you edited was in.

Click somewhere else in ACP or log out and in again ... does it save state?

[Kirk Y]

Ahh... this is true. I thought you meant while you're still in the Style Manager.

[Andreas]

No.
It is gooddamn annoying when you are working on a Hack, edit a Template - then change some usergroup perm (or add a setting or whatever), you come back and the freaking style-manager forgot which template you where working on and you have to open it again ... and again and again and ... WAAAH!
How I hate this

[Revan]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

Edit: Ahh... okay I see what you're talking about. But the carraige return between each product is what needs to be removed...

Well when you don't have products expanded, theres no more space.
And just for the record, its not a carriage return per se. It is IE parsing a <select> in such a way that things that do not have a <optgroup> automatically gets space seperated from those that do. I cant speak for Opera but Firefox doesn't have this behaviour.

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

Click somewhere else in ACP or log out and in again ... does it save state?

No, but it takes maximum 1 page reload to re-claim this state.
I could always just make it a cookie setting...