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Addon building help?
Jesper
Soul Shriven
Is there a good guide for people new to add-on development(preferably a video tutorial). That or might there be anyone willing to do some mentoring?
I do understand how to read code at a basic level(been self teaching) but every add-on I've looked at has multiple files some with hundreds of lines of code and some with terrible formatting and such. It gets a bit overwhelming to read through and figure out what is what on your own.
I've been successful doing some light scripting in the past but nothing on a scale required to make the add-ons I'm hoping to create.
-Jesper
Edited by Jesper on April 2, 2014 12:34PM I do understand how to read code at a basic level(been self teaching) but every add-on I've looked at has multiple files some with hundreds of lines of code and some with terrible formatting and such. It gets a bit overwhelming to read through and figure out what is what on your own.
I've been successful doing some light scripting in the past but nothing on a scale required to make the add-ons I'm hoping to create.
-Jesper
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Best Answer
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DewiMorgan✭✭✭Tutorial here (text, sorry!)
FAQ here
API reference here
Event reference here
All credit to the ESOUI project
Edited by DewiMorgan on April 2, 2014 2:11PM12
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If you don't have a proper IDE, Notepad++ is often a good bet.LUA editors could be useful, SciTE and alike.
It supports syntax highlighting and language detection for Lua and XML alike and has some IntelliSense/Autocompletion Features.
It might also help to get a look at Lua first:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_%28programming_language%29
It's a pretty odd language, compared to the ones I know.
As I undestand it so far an Addon conists at least of:
1 Folder to contain the files (no spaces in name)
1 .txt file of same name as folder. Contains data like title, API version (for version check) and wich .lua/.xml files belong to the addon
1+ .xml file wich defines any GUI elements needed
1+ .lua file wich contains all the Code Behind needed (inlcuding Events raised by the GUI Elements).
The .xml and .lua files can be named however you want and it can be as many as you need for code seperation.Elana Peterson (EU), Dominion, Imperial Sorc, Rune & Alchemy Crafting Char
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Cairenn✭✭✭There are a ton of good resources, and helpful threads, in the Developer Discussions section of our forums. As well, don't forget that we've got guilds set up on both the EU and the NA servers, Arcane Scripters Guild. Additionally, there's the IRC channel where you'd be welcome to come hang out. Server: irc.freenode.net Channel: #esouidev0
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nsa✭✭DewiMorgan wrote: »Tutorial here (text, sorry!)
FAQ here
API reference here
Event reference here
All credit to the ESOUI project
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info359-SampleApplicationFornewdevelopers.html
This might help too.
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