Common Place for Extra Files Used by Custom Plugins?

xeroblood · **Author**

Just a wierd kinda question here, but as I was developing a plugin for AMXX, I created a .html file to display in a MOTD window (like a help file for my plugin)..

My question/suggestion here is:

Is there/will there be a common folder like 'extras' in the 'addons/amxx' folder for such files used by Custom Plugins?

Mainly I ask, cuz' in AMX ppl just kinda put this stuff where ever they wanted, like putting a help.txt file associated with myplug.amx in 'addons/amx/help.txt' whereas some ppl would do 'addons/amx/myplug/help.txt' or some variant of..

It gets a lil' messy when they're everywhere.. so I was gonna make a folder for mine specifically, but then I thought of this idea.. maybe it will be incorporated into next release? (not much to add, just a folder named 'extras' or something, and let ppl know that custom HTML/TXT files used by there plugins should go in there for organization reasons only..)

Anyway, I just got to wondering where I should put mine for my custom
plugin, I will make my own folder anyway, but maybe there will be a common place I could put this along with all other HTML/TXT files used by other plugins without having to edit the source of some of them..

Wierd Q.. I know..

BAILOPAN · 03-23-2004 , 15:39

I will provide a folder called "custom" in the next release people can use to throw custom plugin information in.

xeroblood · 03-23-2004 , 15:41

Nice! Now ima edit my plugin to reflect 'addons/amxx/custom/'..
Thx for the quick reply!!

Hopefully ppl catch on, and we can store all such files there!!

devicenull · 03-23-2004 , 17:23

Any plugin config files still go in amxx\configs, correct?

BAILOPAN · 03-23-2004 , 17:26

the core configs for amxx default stuff go in configs
custom configs can go in custom

knocker · 03-23-2004 , 17:49

its a good idea to have a custom folder ... but you also could do it by yourself ;)

xeroblood · 03-23-2004 , 18:09

having it as part of release will encourage other coders to write their plugins using that directory for custom files.. otherwise, they may place them anywhere..

knocker · 03-23-2004 , 18:19

i got that from beginning- i wish they will do so ;)

but i edited almoste very plugin on my server to meet my requirements. so i edited some file locations too (atac/amx_war from amx/plugins/ folder to amx/extra/*) ...

xeroblood · 03-23-2004 , 18:21

that's exactly what I don't want to have to do!!

probably others don't either!

BigBaller · 03-23-2004 , 18:25

A custom folder will be great, if that happens next release I will make sure I update ATAC to correspond with this change