HELP: Resources to Understand Plugins

[2ndIdentity]

Dear all,

I have been a Rainmeter user for quite some time. While the online Rainmeter Manual have been very handy to me for making my own skins, I would like to move forward into Lua Scripting as well as Plugins.

Hence, does anybody have recommendations as on what books which I can read on, in order for me to understand how Rainmeter Plugins work?

To be honest, my programming skill is rather introductory, with only basic understanding of C/C++. But, I do not mind spending time getting myself up to that level of Plugin Development.

Many thanks in advance for the recommendations.

sJ

[thatsIch]

Rainmeter SDK would be probably your first stop
(https://github.com/rainmeter/rainmeter-plugin-sdk)

[FlyingHyrax]

The experience with C/C++ might be somewhat different - I've only written a plugin in C# - but I've always found that tracing the included plugins (and the examples included in the SDK) was the most helpful.

At the moment, documentation on the plugin API is relatively sparse - it describes the classes and methods, but for understanding flow of control you're going to want to look at other people's work.

[2ndIdentity]

Thanks guys for the recommendations. Appreciate it.