WizTools - 1.x Plugin Development Toolkit

[idkpmiller]

Its not clear to me what you are talking about.

Snap!

Its because theres a big skills gap its like were speaking different languages..

I have looked on here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library...thods.aspx

and there is not a .GetImage method for Image Class.

you have in your example the @thumnail pointing to media.GetImage

hence my questions on what media was defined as.

[sub]

Here it is another way:

Code:

Hashtable args = new Hashtable();
args["@ArtistSong"] = media.Artist + "-" + media.Title;
args["@Time"] = currentSong.ToString();
args["@AlbumArt"] = [b]Image.FromFile("c:\\test.jpg");[/b]
nowPlayingStatic.SetArgs(args);

The SkinHelper is expecting the hashtable object to be a System.Drawing.Image.

The 'media' object in that last example was some object used in one of psycik's plugins. He asked about a day before you how to do the same thing, and supplied his hashtable definition. The post I made for you copied/pasted the example I helped him with the day before. Whatever his media object was, it had a GetImage() method that returned an System.Drawing.Image.

[pastro]

Hi Sub,
I just tryed the method you explained, and if I do just text its working fine, it all turns to custard when I use an image so... the media.GetImage you have in your code how is that passing and what is it passint to the args? i.e. is the image itself or a string for the filename, is there something simple I can set up there to test that everything is working?

Thanks

I did have to change text and graphics to get the new graphics to show up. If nothing changes you don't get the getimage callback.
JW had example code that did what you want.

[idkpmiller]

worked out what must be happening just prior to receiving your post.

I have tried this, in needsRendering:

Code:

Dim args As New Hashtable()
            args("@Text") = selectedEmulator
            args("@Image") = Image.FromFile("C:\\gamezone.jpg")
            emulatorIconStatic.SetArgs(args)

with skin.xml

Code:

        <Placement name="emulatorIcon" loc="5.0,80.0" />


        <CompositeImage name="emulatorIcon" size="75.0,5.0">
            <DrawText text="@Text" loc="0,0" size="100,100" textStyle="LabelText" align="Left" />
            <DrawImage fileName="@image" loc="0,0" size="100,100" />
        </CompositeImage>

it is now very basic, I am thinking it must be a skin issue, does the skin extract look correct?

As I said its only when the image parts are added does it go wrong.

[sub]

That looks about right, but post the logs and I'll take a look.

[idkpmiller]

Cheers Sub,

line 2561 is the needsRendering line: emulatorIconStatic.SetArgs(args)

here is the logs

[sub]

line 2561 is the needsRendering line: emulatorIconStatic.SetArgs(args)

2008-01-08 13:02:55.828 ERROR [1] Unexpected error: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at GameZone.GameZone.GameZoneTask.needsRendering() in H:\GB-PVR\project\GameZone 2\GameZone 2\GameZone 2\GameZoneTask.vb:line 2561
at GBPVRX2.MenuTask.x0be92cb4e3ac1817.needsRendering()
at GBPVRX2.MenuTask.xd2a3a83a17aec615.needsRendering()
at GBPVRX2.x0061b801bdf12d35.xdb012c437aec4a40(Boolean xd23bf32f3b17e3be)
at GBPVRX2.xb979ad394703258e.xfb409e85bd292293(String[] xf18a926310372520)

Given these two bits of info, emulatorIconStatic is set to null when you try to call SetArgs(). The error is occuring on that line, not inside the SetArgs() method, otherwise there would be additional levels in the stacktrace showing UiStatic.SetArgs() etc.

[idkpmiller]

to ensure emulatorIconStatic is not Null I have changed the code to:

Code:

Dim args As New Hashtable()
            args("@Text") = "Testing"
            args("@Image") = Image.FromFile("C:\\gamezone.jpg")
            emulatorIconStatic.SetArgs(args)

This still gives the same error, is this what you meant when it was set to null that one of the args must be null? or the initialisation code I have in Activate was not setup?

In Activate() I have:

Code:

Dim args As New Hashtable()
                args("@Text") = ""
                args("@Image") = ""
                'args("@AlbumArt") = ""
                emulatorIconStatic = New UiStatic(skinHelper, "emulatorIcon", args)

[sub]

to ensure emulatorIconStatic is not Null I have changed the code to:

Code:

Dim args As New Hashtable()
            args("@Text") = "Testing"
            args("@Image") = Image.FromFile("C:\\gamezone.jpg")
            emulatorIconStatic.SetArgs(args)

This still gives the same error, is this what you meant when it was set to null that one of the args must be null?

This doesnt ensure emulatorIconStatic is not Null. emulatorIconStatic can still be null.

I think needsRendering() can sometimes be called before Activate(). To accomodate this, change your needsRendering() to have:

Code:

Dim args As New Hashtable()
args("@Text") = "Testing"
args("@Image") = myImage
if (emulatorIconStatic != null)
    emulatorIconStatic.SetArgs(args)

You'll also not want to be doing "Image.FromFile("C:\\gamezone.jpg")" in needs rendering. This would cause gamezone.jpg to be loaded from disk about 20 times a second.

[idkpmiller]

I am just thinking ahead how are people handling the installation for using the new Wiz DLLs (three of them) on to a users system that only has the older single Wiz DLL?

I am assuming I should be copying the wiz DLL into the plugins/common directory what others should be copied there?

I am also making a plugin/<Plugin name> directory I am assuming that is the current best practise.

Appreciate hearing what others are doing.

Cheers