Video showing how to make a plugin

Posted by Nick Gammon on Fri 24 Jul 2009 03:03 AM — 7 posts, 44,056 views.

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Fri 24 Jul 2009 03:03 AM #0

I have made a video showing how to make a plugin.

It can be watched at How to make a plugin in MUSHclient. An imbedded copy is below on this page.

Constructive comments are welcome, for example is it too fast, too slow, not enough detail, and so on.

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Fri 24 Jul 2009 04:15 AM #1

The plugin generated by this tutorial appears below:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE muclient>
<!-- Saved on Friday, July 24, 2009, 10:08 AM -->
<!-- MuClient version 4.43 -->

<!-- Plugin "Targetting_System" generated by Plugin Wizard -->

<!--
Written as a tutorial.
-->

<muclient>
<plugin
   name="Targetting_System"
   author="Nick Gammon"
   id="9c0b98b57395e9948c6020f0"
   language="Lua"
   purpose="Set up a target and attack it"
   date_written="2009-07-24 10:03:44"
   requires="4.40"
   version="1.0"
   >
<description trim="y">
<![CDATA[
Lets you target a mob and attack it.

Usage:


t <mobname>    -- target a mob
k              -- kill the current target
p              -- punch the current target
bs             -- backstab the current target


Type "tshelp" to see this help.
]]>
</description>

</plugin>


<!--  Aliases  -->

<aliases>
  <alias
   match="k"
   enabled="y"
   expand_variables="y"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>kill @target</send>
  </alias>
  <alias
   match="t *"
   enabled="y"
   send_to="12"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>SetVariable ("target", "%1")

ColourNote ("white", "blue", "Target is now: %1")

SetStatus ("Target: %1")</send>
  </alias>
  <alias
   match="p"
   enabled="y"
   expand_variables="y"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>punch @target</send>
  </alias>
  <alias
   match="bs"
   enabled="y"
   expand_variables="y"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>backstab @target</send>
  </alias>
</aliases>

<!--  Plugin help  -->

<aliases>
  <alias
   script="OnHelp"
   match="tshelp"
   enabled="y"
  >
  </alias>
</aliases>

<script>
<![CDATA[
function OnHelp ()
  world.Note (world.GetPluginInfo (world.GetPluginID (), 3))
end
]]>
</script> 

</muclient>

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Sat 25 Jul 2009 05:20 AM #2

I have added closed captioning to this video. This will help if you can't understand my Australian accent. ;)

The captions also correct some minor errors in what I said, so the caption text should be taken as more correct than the spoken text.

Lasher USA Thu 17 Sep 2009 07:43 PM #3

Just watched this - very useful overview for anyone interested in getting started on adding plugins to Mushclient.

Kresslack Sun 24 Jan 2010 09:50 PM #4

Awesome tut Nick. Was very descriptive and helpful.

GentooX Tue 23 Mar 2010 10:27 PM #5

Very Nice Tutorial

i was really impressed by the presentation too.
nice work on the zoom and highlight.

i wonder what tools were used to do those things.

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Tue 23 Mar 2010 10:34 PM #6

I run my copy of Windows under VMware on a Mac. I used ScreenFlow to capture the screen (it does the zooms and stuff) - however that is a Mac product.