[NEWS] GameEx 14.90

[Adultery]

Pretty psyched to get my hands on this one!!

Thanks Tom!!

[Draco1962]

Thanks, Tom!

[stigzler]

Awesome. Damn, and I was just planning on getting out more..

[fRequEnCy]

Thanks Tom!

[Tom Speirs]

A major new feature for developers in this release. Introducing AddIns.

Addins allow you to programmatically create your own modules (lists and menus) and play, list and launch anything..

You can for example create your own video or multimedia modules somewhat similar to how some Kodi AddOns work.

It's not overly complicated to get started and there is a full example available here.

They are also now part of the official GameEx repository.

I am happy to answer any questions.

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[stigzler]

Just had a gleg. Thanks, Tom. The code's really well annotated. This one's stored under "I'll be using this one day..."

[Adultery]

I glanced at it last night and I don't know what to do with it. I need an idea first I think, or some simple project to get my bearings.

[Draco1962]

20 minutes ago, Adultery said:

I glanced at it last night and I don't know what to do with it. I need an idea first I think, or some simple project to get my bearings.

What about something like the LastFM Media Scraper?

[Adultery]

/me already has a dll ready to go for that... Ponder...

[Tom Speirs]

Unless you wanted to develop your own jukebox or display deep content with menus and lists from LastFM - that would fit better into a PlugIn rather than an AddIn.

Addins In simple terms allow custom menus and lists and allow you to run any code when items from those lists or menus are selected such as launch something or play a media file, or load another list.

A scraper would work as a plugin, where it would download artwork as you are navigating.

Just install the example from the repository manager to see what it is.

[Tom Speirs]

Here are several examples I can think of.

1. http://tags.hfc-essentials.com/tags.php your tag viewing page would work as an addin.

2. An interface for an archive.org collection.

3. Any kind of feed, top 10, or list.

4. Interfacing GameEx with another database. For example Gamebase support in GameEx I think could be created as an addin.

5. GameEx High Score lists etc.

 

[Adultery]

All of these are good suggestions. I was thinking about embedding a media player, but all of these seem more approachable to me.

I think I'll start with a menu for the High Score comp, though. Should be able to harness a good amount of test users for that. I have a pretty good idea of how that will work.

I'm interested in a Last.FM plugin though, but I don't know how I can hook the menu list through there. Another project for another day.

[Tom Speirs]

It seems I needed to catch up on what Last FM does now and I can't see why a last FM addin wouldn't be a good thing.