Is there a plugin tutorial?

[XenoPhage]

Greetings,

I'm looking for either a very basic plugin to look at, or a tutorial on how to get started. I'm an experienced coder, just not familiar with plugin coding.

Or is the API documentation the place to start for this?

Thanks!

[mattsches]

I'd recommend you read the Plugin API and take a quick look at the event hooks just to get an impression on what plugins can do.

At the bottom of the Plugin API page you can find some very basic example code. AFAIK there is no step-by-step tutorial on how to code a plugin right now, but you could take a look at some of the simpler plugins, e.g. the layout plugins (see here).

From my experience, once you recognize the common structure of the plugin files, coding becomes relatively easy. And don't hesitate to ask in the forums if you need further help

[XenoPhage]

I figured the API was the way to go, just wanted to make sure before I dove in..

Thanks!