Skins to support weather plugin

[CodeMonkey]

For a skin to support weather, you need to create a 'weather' subdir and make sure the following buttons are there:

Current
Map
Forecast
Main Menu

Weather button for the main menu.

Get the file names from the blue skin.

You don't need to worry about weather icons, they are skin-neutral.

[gplasky]

Issues with plugins for MCE like skin:

Need some help with the following issues:

1. Weather and Shutdown buttons on Main Menu appear to be hard coded somewhere. They appear in their own size which cuts off the buttons I have and they have their own text. I need to be able to define the button like in the main menu folder just like I have done with the other buttons in there. (Or possibly their main menu buttons can reside in their respective folders-I just need to be able to create the graphic and the text and put the button graphic somewhere. Maybe it's own folder would be better.)
2. Weather button on main menu-I am getting an exception error when I choose or click on this button. Here it is:

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just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawImage(Image image, Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height)
at ag.c()
at ag.a(String A_0)
at ag.a(Message& A_0)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

Shutdown button works fine (but see#1 for my issue) and I have completed that for my skin. Can you give me some help or ideas where to start?

Gerry

[CodeMonkey]

If you can put your modified skin somewhere I can get it, I will run with it tonight and see what the exception is. I'm guessing its missing a button file, but when I start up with the MCE skin I don't even get a weather button on the main menu now.

[gplasky]

Grab it here

MCE like with Weather and Shutdown

The shutdown plugin doesn't throw an exception so that may help in troubleshooting. But both the main menu buttons seem hard defined and I need a way to replace those with mine. Possibly place the button in it's folder and use a skins.xml file to use it. Just thinking out loud. Or just maybe make standard programming for all plugins that it's main menu button is contained in the plugin's skin folder.

Gerry

[CodeMonkey]

Personally, I like your second option of having the buttons defined in the plugins skin folder.  But sub will decide.

Before I forget, you can get rid of the unknown.png file. It actually is for the weather icons. Sub, you can remove it as well from the blue skin.

Thanks for the updated skin, I will fire it up tonight.

[sub]

Gerry, I see what is going on. I'll fix it.

[CodeMonkey]

Sub, you will fix the button looking funny or the exception or both?

[sub]

Both hopefully. I dont know whats causing the exception yet.

[CodeMonkey]

Sub, I set breakpoints at the start of WeatherTask() and at the start of render().  It got to WeatherTask and I was able to step through and it completed successfully.  When I pressed the weather button, it never got to render() and just exited.

This is the only thing that looked unusual in the output pane:

The thread 'Shoutcast Async Download thread' (0xf54) has exited with code 0 (0x0).

That could have happened due to the shutdown.  I never saw an exception running it in the debugger though, it just exited.

[CodeMonkey]

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