How to develop my own Addon

danara · August 2019

Hello every one,

i am currently trying to learn how to develop my own Addon, but i cant find any information up to date. Someone can provide me a recent tutorial?

And i am also looking for the documentation of the API, if someone have it !

Thanks you all !

Ogou · August 2019

You could try the esoui guide.here: https://wiki.esoui.com/Writing_your_first_addon

Don't know if there's better options out there though.

KerinKor · August 2019

There's a separate forum for add-ons on these forums, I expect it's mainly for users but there may be some discussion for add-on developers:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/categories/add-ons-and-ui-mods

danara · August 2019

KerinKor wrote: »

There's a separate forum for add-ons on these forums, I expect it's mainly for users but there may be some discussion for add-on developers:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/categories/add-ons-and-ui-mods

Sorry about that i didnt knew! ty a lot !

Ogou wrote: »

You could try the esoui guide.here: https://wiki.esoui.com/Writing_your_first_addon

Don't know if there's better options out there though.

thanks, i find this too but i am not sure it is up to date (today api version 100027 they are at 100025)

Baertram · August 2019

The API version does not matter if you want to learn addon coding.

Check the WIKI here for tutorials and information:
https://wiki.esoui.com/Main_Page

You can ask questions here in the chat e.g.:
https://gitter.im/esoui/esoui

Or in the esoui forum, at best in the lua/XML help subforum:
https://www.esoui.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=175

ESO source code can be found here:
https://github.com/esoui/esoui/tree/master/esoui

SirAndy · August 2019

Learn LUA, grab a text editor, download some AddOns from esoui.com and look through them to see what other people have done.

Note, when you are testing your own AddOn, you can't make changes while you are in-game and have a character loaded, even just having your AddOn code open in a text editor can prevent ESO from loading it properly.

What i usually do:

1 - Start ESO
2 - Log into a character
3 - Test my AddOn functionality
4 - Log out to character select
5 - Open my AddOn in a text editor and make changes to my code
6 - Close my text editor
7 - Go back to 2 and rinse and repeat

sirinsidiator · August 2019

SirAndy wrote: »

Note, when you are testing your own AddOn, you can't make changes while you are in-game and have a character loaded, even just having your AddOn code open in a text editor can prevent ESO from loading it properly.

That sounds highly unusual and extremely time consuming. What editor are you using? Pretty much any text editor or IDE I know of allows you to change the addon code and reload the ui without a problem.

Ek1 · August 2019

Now hold on a sec, ESO reads and loads .lua files when it is loading the UI, not after it anymore.
Like Siri pointed out, you could just make edits to the code and /reloadui to see the effects. That's how most of us do it.