How to display custom plugin names and descriptions.

[mvallevand]

That didn't work.

Martin.

[whurlston]

Hmmm, I'm not sure then, sorry.

Edit: I just double checked and it turns out that I have my code in the wrong file. It's actually overriding BaseButtonListUiTask.getName() so if you are not implimenting BaseButtonListUiTask, that could be the issue.

BaseButtonListUiTask in turn implements IMenuTask so it looks like I have some code cleanup to do.

[mvallevand]

Yes WebRadio has that and I thought it was related. I just added that to the class that doesn't implement partial and it works, I did have to move a lot of code from the BaseButtonListUiTask interface to the new module but it probably will be cleaner.

Thanks.

Martin

[whurlston]

I updated the first post with the correction. Now to move my code around (after I get some sleep)...

[scb147]

Well, I added BaseButtonListUiTask to my class, and the name in the upper-left is still "Weather2". Maybe I'm confused on what needs to be done. I don't partial implement any classes.

[mvallevand]

Did you add override? ie

public override string getName()
{
return WizInfo.cfgGetString(mName, "Weather2Name", mName);
}

Martin

[scb147]

Yes, I did...

Code:

public class WeatherTask : BaseButtonListUiTask, IMenuTask, IUiTask, IUiPopupCallback, WizUiList.CommandCallback
{
...
   public override string getName()
   {
        return WizInfo.cfgGetString(mName, "Weather2Name", mName);
   }
}

[mvallevand]

scb147 you can try return a hard code string to see if that helps. I had to take out the
BaseButtonListUiTask class because it impacted the Config.exe handling too much to dig into. In the activate event for the plugin I just use

Code:

SkinHelper2 skinHelper2 = new GBPVRX2.SkinHelper2(PluginIntName + @"\AnyValidSkin.xml");
                Hashtable args = new Hashtable();
                args["@screenName"] = this.getName();
                screenNameElement = new UiStatic(skinHelper2, "ScreenName", args);
                screenNameElement.SetArgs(args);

and it shows up using baseskin.xml without BaseButtonListUiTask

Martin

[scb147]

Hey all, make sure this line is:

Code:

args["@screenName] = getName();

Otherwise you'll have problems

Thanks, whurlston!

[whurlston]

No problem. Glad it got sorted. I don't set that property manually when implementing BaseButtonListUiTask so I didn't catch it.