Main menu plugin - how?

[McBainUK]

Plugins can now act as the main menu menu

What interface(s) do I need to implement in order to make a alternative main menu plugin? Also, what needs to be changed in the settings screen or config file in order to use it once available?

[sub]

Menu's just implement IScreenPlugin like other plugins. I've attached the code for the default menu.

In the Global.xml, you can then add a tag with something like <MenuType>Vertical</MenuType>, where "Vertical" would be the name return from your plugin's GetName() method.

[imilne]

There's actually a lot of useful code in there full stop. Thanks for posting it sub.

Regarding the animation bit; how does the code make nPVR update the screen? I can't quite work that out.

Iain

[sub]

There's actually a lot of useful code in there full stop. Thanks for posting it sub.

No worries. The menu is actually not a lot of code.

Regarding the animation bit; how does the code make nPVR update the screen? I can't quite work that out.

It returns true from NeedsRendering if its still animating, which causes the app to call GetRenderList() then show the resulsts.

The animation is done based on time, rather than a number of steps, since different PCs can renderer at different rates. ie, it decides an animation will take 200ms, and records the time an animation started, then each time it calls GetRenderList will use the number of milliseconds since the animation started to determine where abouts in the animation it should be up to.

[Fatman_do]

Without knowing a lick of coding, this thread sounds very interesting to me.

[sub]

Without knowing a lick of coding, this thread sounds very interesting to me.

Yeah, hopefully we'll see some custom menus.

The app includes two styles of menu screen, the default one (horizontal sliding), and a vertical menu (no animated sliding).