Plugin and Script API documentation and other useful links for XBMC Addon Developers

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Initial draft posted to issue tracker 10107

thanks for the documentation effort chippyash, .odt format opens just fine in the default text editor (TextEdit) on OS X

it'll be great to have a cohesive guide for developers

heres some info, i hope it helps:

debugging (you are probably aware of the articles, but ill post them just in case):
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...on_Scripts
it would help if the info for adding the symlink is a bit clearer (not everyone uses linux)

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...th_Eclipse

@anarchintosh
Thanks for the links - very helpful

Do you or anyone else know how to set up Netbeans to debug XBMC. The Python debugger in it works, but fails with a line

SOURCE::IMPORTERROR:No module named xbmcplugin['Traceback (most recent call last):

I guess I need to include some library path from somewhere but what, where and how, I don't know

ta

I've finished draft 0.6 (essentially the finished article) of the doc which you can find in the tracker (previously mentioned in this thread.) If you have comments on fact or think something needs clarification, please let me know

i've started to read it, good work so far !

I have looked at a few scripts out there, but most span multiple files, are hard to follow without having 3 monitors and six .py files open across them.

Is there a simple single file script out there, that shows some examples of how the skins xml file and .py file work with each other to create the window/interface.

I tried the bootdisk.script, but that thing has to be the hardest thing to follow I have ever seen. I did manage to modify it to make a nice "Freeze XBMC when clicked" script though. (sadly that was not my intention)


Something really simple like, enter a url, click a "Grab" button, and display text from a page in a text box on-screen, click "Exit" and it closes. In one .py file, with a few graphic elements.

So I added the google-code repository via "Install from zip", then I disabled it on accident.
I just thought I'd let you all know, maybe you should add a way to re-enable, disabled repositories. I just removed it and re-installed it, but some people might have trouble doing it that way.

Thanks for the example docs, much better than the 6-year old ones I had for the XBOX.

MacGyver Wrote:So I added the google-code repository via "Install from zip", then I disabled it on accident.
I just thought I'd let you all know, maybe you should add a way to re-enable, disabled repositories. I just removed it and re-installed it, but some people might have trouble doing it that way.

If what you are saying is correct then it's a bug and should go on the issue tracker. Try and replicate it. same result = problem

ppic Wrote:i've started to read it, good work so far !

And?

Where can it be better elaborated?

Have I missed some important points (after all I've only been scripting XBMC/Python for 2 weeks!)