Looking for Help Creating Plugins

[The Papaw]

I am not sure how much I am asking, but I have an idea and folks are telling me it needs to be a plugin.

What I am trying to accomplish is to create or actually simulate an RSS feed in BB themes, I am wanting to make a text scroller I can include in BB themes that pulls metadata (Game Names and the Platform name it is in) from the users "Recently Added Playlist". I suppose it would need to use the settings a user has for how long the game remains in the list as well.

So when you launch BB, basically there would be a text scroller showing all the recently added games pulling the data from the Recently Added Playlist, preferably including the platform, something like:

Game Name 1 (Arcade) | Game Name 2 (Windows) | Game Name 3 (Nintendo Switch)   or   Game Name 1 - Arcade | Game Name 2 - Windows | Game Name 3 - Nintendo Switch  or something like that. If that is making any sense.

I really know nothing of how plugins are made and how much work goes into them.

And on a side note, if anyone knows anything about it, I am looking for a scraper that can scape karaoke files (mp3+CDG), especially now that RetroArch has gotten the pocketcd core working again with the new release of v1.15.0

Any help or guidance is most appreciated

 

[stigzler]

It's hard to know where you're starting from, but I wrote this getting started in terms of setting up VisualStudio for a .net or .framework plugin. 

Super-dooper-guide

If you're below this (how to code etc) then can't help you with that, I'm afraid. You'll need to start from basics.

Edited June 11, 2023 by stigzler

[blattacker]

Another thing to note is that, especially if you just need things defined, ChatGPT can be a wonderful tool. It walked me through creating a custom greyscale effect plugin. Though, as with the above resource, some coding knowledge may be required just to sort of understand the basics of reading the code you're writing. If you have absolutely 0 previous coding knowledge (dating myself a bit here, but imo even just basic back in the day MySpace HTML would probably be enough to have you in the right mindset) I'd suggest just quickly going through a couple free lessons on a site like Codecademy. Just enough to the point where you feel like you understand what you're doing a little bit (C# may be a good starting point for this scenario), no need to pay for a full account or anything.