Total addon beginner looking for help

Nalaya · 04/01/14, 10:25 AM

Hey guys,

I wanted to make myself a little addon.

I have experience in Java programming and now how xml works but never had something to do with lua

I worked myself through your tutorial in your wiki but it didn't really helped to get started.

The listing of UI XML elements doesn't help either because it doesn't say what every element is good for.

For e.g.: How to draw an image?

Are there other tutorials I could work through?

Many thanks!

vapakule · 04/02/14, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by Nalaya

Hey guys,

I wanted to make myself a little addon.

I have experience in Java programming and now how xml works but never had something to do with lua

I worked myself through your tutorial in your wiki but it didn't really helped to get started.

The listing of UI XML elements doesn't help either because it doesn't say what every element is good for.

For e.g.: How to draw an image?

Are there other tutorials I could work through?

Many thanks!

Hi Nalaya!

You can start with code review of some little weight addon(for e.g. LootDrop). It will give you more understanding how does this addon work.

Some lua Reference and basic lua tutorials can help achieve your goals , start with lua first

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8...rning-lua-fast

For eso addons dev, i highly recomend use dev utilities http://www.esoui.com/downloads/cat53.html and libs http://www.esoui.com/downloads/cat35.html

**Seerah** · 04/02/14, 07:24 PM

Though one *should* understand how to code without libraries/frameworks before using them.

Nalaya · 04/03/14, 01:23 AM

Hey vapakule,

thank you! I already thought of looking through other addon code.

A website like developer.android.com would be cool, I learned android development just from this because every little element is described there and has examples and stuff.

But I guess I won't come around just testing out every xml element

As Seerah said, I think I should first try it without libraries to avoid too much confusion.

Gillymead · 04/04/14, 06:15 AM

It might be worth adding some comments to the MyFirstAddOn tutorial code to explain what the LUA and XML is actually doing?

I appreciate that that involves someone taking the time to do it, if I can understand it, and people don't mind, I'd be happy to contribute.

**Seerah** · 04/04/14, 07:52 AM

The tutorial was provided by ZOS, along with all the other stuff about the API. But, by all means, feel free to edit it.