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I have planned to develop a module for VLC, so first I'm trying to understand everything I need step by step. I have successfully compiled VLC and build a "hello world" module following this guide: https://wiki.videolan.org/Hacker_Guide/ ... _a_Module/

Now I would like to create a GUI for that module and to be able to launch it from the default VLC GUI menus. I'm struggling with it because I have found no guides on the web and no examples on the VLC code.

English is not my native language, but I've read all forum descriptions tried to find the correct section to post this, I hope it's the correct place. If not, I'm really sorry.

Could someone, please, either give me a brief explanation of how to do this or recommend me some documentation/example (like a module that already does this)? Any kind of information would be highly aprecciated.

What kind of GUI do you need?

For the moment I'm just learning, so I just want to do a small window that will ask your name and then show a message like "Hello mike!". I also want to be able to launch taht window from the VLC menus.

Use the dialog_ API

Thank you!

For the future, which other options there are? Let's say I want to create a window with my own buttons, lists, etc.

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