What is a M3P extension

[bill south]

Has anyone downloaded and installed the contour shuttlepro pendant program from the machsupport site. The plugin has a m3p extension and when I click "open" as the directions say, windows does not recognize the file extension and the program will not install. What am I doing wrong??? Using windows XP and downloading the software into a scratch directory until I understand it. Help!
Bill

[ger21]

Try putting it in the Mach3/plugins directory, and double click the file. It installed here just fine. It deleted the original .m3p file and createds a .dll

[efrag]

I download the Joystick plug-in from http://www.artsoftcontrols.com/artsoft/plugin.htm It's a m3p file. I put it inside plugins directory I double clicked it, but there is no association with any application so the windows can open it.
Can you help me with that? How mach3 installs those plugins?

[efrag]

I download the Joystick plug-in from http://www.artsoftcontrols.com/artsoft/plugin.htm It's a m3p file. I put it inside plugins directory I double clicked it, but there is no association with any application so the windows can open it.
Can you help me with that? How mach3 installs those plugins?

[efrag]

I download the Joystick plug-in from http://www.artsoftcontrols.com/artsoft/plugin.htm It's a m3p file. I put it inside plugins directory I double clicked it, but there is no association with any application so the windows can open it.
Can you help me with that? How mach3 installs those plugins?