Tracker Customization Support

[UTDZac]

This feature adds support for code customizations to be added to the Tracker by anyone. By default, the Tracker will not have any custom code files or custom code execution.

To obtain this, developers need to install the Custom Code add-on which is a single file. This file allows the developer to hook into specific areas of the Tracker to execute code, similar to an API, but with a bit more control on our end.

Since this is an add-on, this feature is upgrade safe. This means that upgrading that tracker will not overwrite or directly break the custom code support. Also worth noting that this is a first attempt at offering custom code to be used within the Tracker, and as such it is unlikely that this captures every possible use-case that a developer might want. Future updates to this add-on are possible, but will require developers to make those updates to their own custom code file to obtain them.

In short, this feature:

• Is completely optional, and not included in the regular Tracker download
• Exposes "API"-like functions that developers can use to execute code at specific Tracker runtime events
• Is upgrade safe; custom code isn't overwritten with each Tracker update

Things to do after this:

• Include the CustomCodeSettings.lua and ~Template.lua add-on code files to the next release, zipped
• Update the Add-on wiki page to explain how to install this
• Create a wiki page detailing how this custom code add-on works, and examples for using it

[UTDZac]

Going to change this up in a bit to work better for sharing custom code.

[UTDZac]

Done. Thanks for waiting. The CustomCode.lua file is now included in the actual tracker project. I separated out the parts that devs will change into the add-on specific code files, which are attached to this message.

• CustomCodeSettings.lua.txt
• CodeExtensionTemplate.lua.txt