Plugin with no UI???

[bgowland]

I think someone might have asked this before but I cant find the thread.

Is it possible to have a plugin which has no user interface, i.e., just runs as a background thread within the gbpvr context so it can properly access the public gbpvr APIs? I have a little utility which I would normally run as a system service but I think I read somewhere that external processes can't properly access the APIs. Is that the case?

Cheers,
Brian

[sub]

You can implement a plugin which just has a class that has the IEventNotification interface.

You do need to be careful though, as some of the APIs should be called from background threads (initiating music playback etc). You'd be ok scheduling recordings etc, its just really things that interact with the UI that would have problems.

[bgowland]

Thanks. Would scheduling a recording be OK? I'm guessing it would as it's a one-off operation that doesn't need to be monitored as such.

It's a bit of a gimmick idea really - one of the old boys in my local pub made a comment that my 'magic box' wasn't up to much if I couldn't schedule recordings using my mobile phone. Turns out my cellphone provider has an SMS -> email gateway service and it only took me 30 minutes to knock up a simple POP3 client in C#. Just need to glue the thing together now. That'll annoy him.

Cheers,
Brian

[sub]

Yes, you could that.

I'm fairly sure you can do a standalone app for that aswell. You should be able to call the IScheduleHelper API from a separate exe. You cant call the IPluginHelper stuff though.

[bgowland]

OK I'll try it as an external app. first then. Cheers.