Addon compatibility with other addons

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Hey guys,

Im beginning to look into compatibility for my addon with other major popular ones and could use some pointers.

Fort example i've found an issue with my auto banking and Dolgubon';s lazy writ creator with banking functions. His pulls items out for writs 1st and then mine is throwing them right back in after.

Generally speaking Id like to deal with that on my end but in my head it seems highly complex detecting what his addon is doing from mine and MUCH easier for his addon to temporarily disable my feature and then re-enable it after maybe using one of my global functions?

I literally have a function that could be called to disable mine similar to "function MyFunction(false)" and then true to re-enable it after.

How would another addon call my function and is that even possible? I suspect it is as I've seen something like this for TTC pricing.

Should I approsch Dolgubon and request an addition like:

If MyAddon ~= nil and MyAddon.savedVariables.autoBank == true then
     MyAddon(function MyFunction(false))-- or something similar
     MyAddon.disabled = true
end

and then when hes done
if MyAddon.disabled == true then
     MyAddon(function MyFunction(true))-- or something similar
     MyAddon.disabled = nil
end

Im not yet the big fish here so I'm not sure if this request would be out of line or something. Sharlikran got all pissy with me for requesting some TTC pricing feature be added to Inventory insight for example. I never understood why and then 2 weeks later I discovered MM was also his addon and it all made sense =p

OR....

Is there a fairly easy way to determine what another addon is actively doing so I can manage my own features accordingly? Actually even a way to detect if the bank was opened by the player or another addon would do the job maybe. I could reuse this for any of my functions that have conflicts but I think my auto banking is going to be the primary issue when other addons take stuff out before my code is run.