🚀 MTA DevKit for Visual Studio Code

MTA DevKit is an extension designed to boost productivity for developers creating scripts for Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas (MTA:SA). It enhances the Lua and XML development experience inside Visual Studio Code with contextual autocompletion, function/tooltips, syntax highlighting, and more.

🧩 Features

• 🔍 Context-aware autocompletion powered by over 902 native MTA functions and all server-side events
• 📌 Hover tooltips with rich documentation: function descriptions, parameters, return types, source wiki links, and version info
• 🎨 Custom syntax highlighting with grammar-based styling for native MTA functions and Lua keywords
• 🧠 Smart event suggestions that appear only inside valid contexts like addEventHandler(...) or addEvent(...)
• 📂 Meta.xml-aware context detection: Determines script type (client, server, shared) from the meta.xml file
• 🛠 Full support for both .lua and .xml scripting files

💻 Platform Compatibility

• Editor: Visual Studio Code
• Languages: Lua (client/server/shared) and XML
• OS Support: Windows, Linux, macOS
• VS Code Version: Requires VS Code 1.70.0 or higher

📂 File Access Notice

🔐 MTA DevKit reads the meta.xml file in your current resource to determine whether each .lua script is marked as:

• type="client"
• type="server"
• type="shared"

This detection allows the extension to:

• Only suggest functions/events that are valid in the current file context
• Avoid irrelevant completions (e.g., showing client functions in server files)

✅ This behavior is fully local
❌ No data is collected or sent externally
🛠 Your files are never modified

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📦 Installation

• Search for MTA DevKit in the VS Code Extension Marketplace
• Or install manually:

  code --install-extension mta-devkit-0.1.0.vsix
  

📚 Data Sources

Some files in data contain public information extracted from the official Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas wiki:
🔗 https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/

These include descriptions, parameters, and return values of native MTA functions and events. This data is used solely to enhance the development experience and is not proprietary.

💬 Join the Community

If you have questions, suggestions or want to contribute, join the Yoel 4Devs Discord:

👉 https://discord.gg/w56aqu2KuW