Re: [Banshee-List] First steps on how to write extensions?

["Gabriel Burt" <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Ackbar <correodediz gmail com> wrote:
> Truth is, I don't know it that much, only what my friends have told me (and
> that's what motivated me to try to implement it). It looks like a system to
> "tag" songs with the keywords you like. For example, you may wanna label all
> the songs which appear in a movie soundtrack with that movie's title. Or
> mark all the songs which share its name with a Magic the Gathering card
> (true story, one of my friends did it :)

Yeah, tagging would be great.  CC yourself and submit any patches to
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525690

> I think all it would take is a simple extra table in Banshee's database and
> some functions to add, retrieve and delete those labels.

Yeah, pretty much.

> I'll take a look at the code available until the docs are updated, then. I
> hope not to be overwhelmed, it's the first time I do something like this.

I'd really suggest using MonoDevelop so you can mouse over variables
and classes to see where they come from, and you can right click on
them to jump-to-declaration, etc.  And it tells you what
methods/properties objects have as you type.

Gabriel