New to MVP/GBPVR.. Q about 'custom tasks'

[Dave72]

Hi all.
Had a MediaMVP new in box sitting on the shelf here for a year and a half.. bought it from praise on here and other sites.. knew I was gonna do some htpc eventually.. lol. Well, finally got around to running the cat5e and installing the thing.

I have to thank Sub et al , other than having to figure out and install a 3rd party dhcp provider since Im using a 2nd nic on this pc direct to the MediaMVP.. the install of this app is quite friendly. I could see a day that this program goes Pro, and it would be worth the money.

My photos display great, mp3's are cool, I added some webcams of my own, etc. mpeg videos play good, avi's seem stretched out of the box a bit.. will work on it.

I configured the weather plugin for my location (in Canada). The radar shows a full country though.. and my location is under the text of another city name label.

As it happens, I have an app I wrote that scrapes the current radar image from the local radar site page. The program then makes the earth map transparent and sets it up for use in googleearth.. but I can edit the app to just grab the radar image with background map for use with GBPVR.

I can start the radar image grabbing exe via the custom tasks in GBPVR.. but how would I go about displaying it out to the MVP ?

Is there some simple dll call I could use ? The only 'programming' language I use is Autohotkey (http://autohotkey.com). It can call dll's if you know the parameters etc.

Thanks for any tips on this.

[McBainUK]

View the outputted map in the Photo Library? Assuming it's a jpeg or similar.

[Dave72]

Photo library would work.
Maybe as a Webcam image (local) !

I guess you cant have 'custom tasks' call GBPVR itself and say, spawn a photo view or webcam view ?