Writing a plugin?

Folks,

Just a quick question, what is involved in writing a plugin? I know basically what they are for but have no idea about how to write/make one or edit one or anything like that. I am looking to write a plugin for in game announcements such as for the London Underground routes we have.

Kind Regards

Tom

If you don't know how to programme in one of the .net languages, you'll need to learn one as a minimum. Can give a link to a good free C# e-book if you want.
The announcement in LU routes are I believe nothing to do with any plugin. I think they are just announcements as part of the .sta command or a .announce (might not be the right name) command.

Yes, they normally are part of the actual route file, I have used them in that format before, but I was looking to bring the announcements feature a little further on by getting into plugins...Yes please that'd be great.

Tom

Here you go http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/CSharpBook

Please be aware there currently can be only one plugin at once. Making either OpenBVE multiplugin-usable or creating a socket plugin would be, in my eyes, something on the very top of the priority list.

I used this, buried deep within a no-longer-existent forum.

http://odakyufan.zxq.net/trainscript/index.html

Writing a plugin is really simple. You only need to know ANY one of those .NET languages (official languages are C#, VB .NET, C++ CLI) (unofficial? like in SharpDevelop they support Boo, F#, Python, Ruby also) and also a copy of the original openBVE documentation.

F# is also official.. (it's included with VS2010), also, C++ is NOT .NET.

Drag0nflamez wrote:C++ is NOT .NET.

I think you need to read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B/CLI