Question on what it takes to create plug-ins.

[Corey]

OK so anyone who's been following knows that I am an average schmoe who has decided that I want to learn how to create plug-ins. OK so I have a question for the programmers. Brett mentioned a rough list of what I need but I want to make sure I'm doing this in order, he mentioned I need to learn:

- C++
- OOP
- Windows API
- MFC
- Windows GUI
- Visual Studio

Is this in the right order? I'm working on the core C++ stuff but it seems pretty easy so I doubt this will take me long to at least be semi-functional at, so once I get this together is the next things to do OOP and API? BTW I think these books teach OOP alongside c++ in a sense, i.e. using classes. Anyhow let me know and please feel free to add anything you can think of because I'm creating this thread not only to clear this up but also to try and motivate some users out there to join me in my journey so we can all create a bunch of great plug-ins and get famous like Arnell Stewart and Sid Druthers.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[Brett]

The actual order would probably be:

Action plugins:

- Visual Studio (that's where the compiler is)
- C++
- Windows API

Object plugins:

- Everything from the Action Plugins category
- OOP
- Windows GUI
- MFC (although you don't really have to use it - you can do all plugin development without it)