Creating your own AddOn - Step by Step

[Mars85]

Hi,

thanks for the information. Are the fields listed all which are supported? Is there no dependency or something like that?

[ninioautista]

just fixed =)

[Dolby]

Originally Posted by Mars85

Hi,

thanks for the information. Are the fields listed all which are supported? Is there no dependency or something like that?

These are the known fields for the riftAddon.toc http://wiki.riftui.com/RiftAddon.toc. I don't see anything for dependency, something to bring up to ZorbaTHut.

[tonyis3l33t]

a nice little kickstart, thanks. Any other resources that would help one write addons? I saw the author resource thread, and I'm considering reading the Programming in Lua 2nd Edition...anything else out there?

p.s. Hi Dolby =)


EDIT: Also wanted to add the only programming experience is an Introduction to Programming course I took at DeVry recently. We mostly focused on VBS & SQL.... but writing addons for EQ2, WoW, and now RIFT has always peaked my interests.

[Sunspots]

Originally Posted by Dolby

These are the known fields for the riftAddon.toc http://wiki.riftui.com/RiftAddon.toc. I don't see anything for dependency, something to bring up to ZorbaTHut.

It's just commented out for the example.

-- This line would set up dependencies with several other addons.
--[[
Dependencies = {
  LibUnitChange = {"required", "before"}, -- LibUnitChange must be installed for this to work, and must be loaded before this addon is loaded.
  Visualizer = {"required"}, -- Visualizer must be installed for this to work. It may be loaded either before or after this addon.
 
  SomeLibrary = {"required"}, -- Embedded libraries are not added to the dependencies automatically. If the embedded library fails to load due to a conflict, your addon will still load unless it's set as a required dependency.
 
  OptionalHelper = {"optional", "before"}, -- This addon is optional, but if it's loaded, it must be loaded before this addon is loaded.
  SomethingThatNeedsToBeHooked = {"optional", "after"}, -- This addon is optional, but if it's loaded, it must be loaded *after* this addon is loaded.
  DataHelper = {"optional"},  -- This addon is optional and we don't care about load order.
}
]]

[Rithious]

I was looking through addons and i have yet to find what I'm looking for. I was thinking about making it myself but i don't know how to write the program. I wanted to do an all in 1 inventory. Is there someone that could help me with this, perhaps explain to me how to do this? I have gotten so use to this with all the MMO's i have played, it's actually kind of irritating not having it in Rift. Thanks

[Aieny]

We can't do anything with the inventory yet, as the API for it hasn't been developed. Rest assured, though, that this is coming, and Addons like this will be forthcoming.

[Griz]

Very useful starter, thank you.

I noticed a possible spelling error that was causing the addon not to register. The line in the RiftAddon.toc file:

Enviroment = "1.3" I think should read:

Environment = "1.3"

I have made the minor change (hope that was ok?)

[Syndic]

Originally Posted by Rithious

I was looking through addons and i have yet to find what I'm looking for. I was thinking about making it myself but i don't know how to write the program. I wanted to do an all in 1 inventory. Is there someone that could help me with this, perhaps explain to me how to do this? I have gotten so use to this with all the MMO's i have played, it's actually kind of irritating not having it in Rift. Thanks

This seems to be the number 1 request I've noticed for an add-on. I would love one myself, to the point I would love to look into it myself, not sure how far I'll get though, have the same hurdles as yourself.
As mentioned above the only reason i could see you haven't seen this is the functions just aren't there.