HelloWorld Sample

[werit]

Hi all,

I put together a quick HelloWorld sample mod. Steps:

1) Create a directory called HelloWorld in X4 Foundations\extensions\HelloWorld

2) Create a content.xml file in that directory, as seen below.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<content id="HelloWorld" name="HellowWorld" description="Simple hello world extension."  author="werit" version="001" date="2019-07-24" save="0">
<text language="44" name="HelloWorld" description="Sample extension" author="Werit" />
</content>

3) Create a directory named md

4) In the md directory, create a file called HelloWorld.xml with the contents below

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<mdscript name="HelloWorld" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="md.xsd">
  <cues>
    <cue name="WaitForGameStart">
      <conditions>
         <event_game_loaded />
      </conditions>
      <actions>
        <debug_text text="'Hello World!'" filter="error" />
      </actions>
    </cue>
  </cues>
</mdscript>

5) When starting up X4, add the command line option: -logfile debuglog.txt

6) Startup X4, go into Extensions and make sure HelloWorld is enabled. Log into a game.

7) Find debugLog.txt, it should have a line: [=ERROR=] 29816.83 Context:md.HelloWorld.WaitForGameStart: Hello World!

This may be old news, but hopefully, someone finds it useful.

[euclid]

Thanks, werit. You may want to check this sticky for other examples

Cheers Euclid