Within this Plugin Manager, you can install new plugins and edit the list of available plugins.

The plugin list is divided into three tabs: Active plugins, Disabled plugins, and Failed plugins. You can right-click on any plugin to edit it.

These plugins are available for use and will appear in the plugin menu for adding to the project.

The user has the option to hide certain plugins from the plugin menu. This feature can be utilized to hide plugins that may be available in various formats or that the user wishes to keep hidden for practical reasons. To hide a plugin, go to the Active Plugins tab, right click and select Disable Selected Plugins

These plugins are files that the Plugin Scanner has scanned but could not load or crashed during loading.
You can try to re-scan the plugin by right-clicking on the plugin and selecting Re-Scan Plugin.
Please note that this will scan the plugin directly and if the plugin crashes the program might also crash.

Click the Look for new plugins - button to add new plugins.

In the popup menu that follows, select the desired plugin format.
Make sure all license dongles etc., are connected when scanning starts.

The Plugin Scanner will now look through the standard plugin folders on the computer for compatible plugins, do a basic test, and add them to the list. If there are many plugins installed, this process can take a while.

You may also see popup windows for license activations and other plugin notifications.

If the scanning should fail because of a misbehaving plugin, the scan will restart, and the problem plugin will be skipped.

Once the scan completes, you should see the full list of installed plugins

This will empty the list of scanned plugins, effectively resetting all the plugin lists.
When the plugins are re-scanned, the disabled plugins will still be disabled.

The list will be scanned to confirm the presence of plugin files on the disk. Any plugins that are no longer installed on the system will be removed from the list.

This will delete the images files used to display preview images in the plugin menu

When the computer is connected to the internet, this feature attempts to download preview images of the plugins listed to use in the plugin menu.