Basic Extension Coding Tutorial

Basic Extension Coding Tutorial This demonstration was done at FG Con 12 https://www.fantasygrounds.com https://www.fg-con.com/events -- Tip reminders Tools Notepad++ or another code editor that supports find in files 7zip for compressing/uncompressing files (it recognises .pak/.mod/.ext/.ppk as .zip files – don’t use .7z compression – only .zip) Fantasy Grounds Copy the following to your hotkeys: /reload /console /save And a link to whatever you are working on Debug Debug.console(); Debug.chat(); Use them often. File Structure Mimic the CoreRPG/5e folder structure, file naming conventions and separation of strings and layout and templates and scripts etc… The only required file is extension.xml LUA code should be in .lua files so that the error reporting can identify the line that the error occurs on Anchoring Learn it! Finding the Right Files Find a unique or rare keyword on the page that you want to edit and search on that. Follow templates and strings and icons etc etc (using FiF) to learn how these things link to each other Use the merge=”” so as to minimise the amount of code that may be affected by upgrades Packing Extensions You don’t need to pack your extension up each time you make a change – do all your dev with unpacked files When zipping the final product up – don’t include the parent folder. Include the files and folders at the same level as extension.xml and everything below. Make sure you don’t end up with a filename like – myextension.ext.zip – it wont work!