Caller ID Plugin and C++

[bryan]

Back around Oct. 24, in this thread, I brought up the possibility of a general purpose keyboard or remote handler. Sub, responded that he would consider it for a future release.

Sub, maybe you could look at the possibility of including this kind of capability in the next release. It looks like at least a couple of us are interested, maybe more. I'm thinking that this could be a relatively easy addition to the "Blue" button OSD. Press the "Blue" and then if the correct code is entered, the client calls a user written keyboard/remote plugin. Then it is up to the plugin to do something.

Thanks,

Bryan

[CodeMonkey]

Quote[/b] (KingArgyle @ Dec. 07 2004,04:43)]I believe all String.Empty does is map to null.  I could be wrong though.

That would make sense King.

[CodeMonkey]

For those interested in trying this, you can go and get the YAC Caller ID program and get that setup and running on your network.  You can run the main YAC program either on your GBPVR box, or on another box on your network (so you don't have to have a modem in, or run a phone line to, your gbpvr box if you don't want to).  Test it out on the install machine and get it working nice.  Then when you get the CallerID plugin you just need to configure a 'listener' in YAC.  If YAC is running on the gbpvr box, you will create a listener to 'localhost'.  If it's on another box on your LAN, you set the listener to the IP of the gbpvr box.

By default, YAC (and the CallerID plugin) uses port 10629.  if this doesn't work for you, change it in YAC and in the CallerID plugin config.

That should be all there is to it!

I will release a beta version within the next day or so.  But it really should be left disabled except for testing on the gbpvr main menu until the ShowMessage() bugs described ealier are resolved.

As a interesting side note, any program on the box running the main YAC program can send a message to YAC to send to its listeners.  In this way, a non gbpvr plugin can send messages to the screen if desired. Look at the YACTextSend program source to see how to do this in your program.  Or you can use their pre-made commandline executable to send messages manually.

[CodeMonkey]

This plugin is language aware.  The entries to put into the language.xml files are:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"><!-- CallerID -->
<translate originalText="The phone is ringing:" translatedText="The phone is ringing:"/>
<translate originalText="Name:" translatedText="Name:"/>
<translate originalText="Number:" translatedText="Number:"/>
[/QUOTE]

[reven]

Quote[/b] (CodeMonkey @ Dec. 08 2004,04:40)]

Quote[/b] (KingArgyle @ Dec. 07 2004,04:43)]I believe all String.Empty does is map to null.  I could be wrong though.

That would make sense King.

i thought that .empty() would just be string = &quot;&quot;; not null. i think because its an initiatedinstance just with an empty string which is &quot;&quot;.
i could be wrong, but i think my reasoning is sound. could always preform a test on it
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">string str = "test"
str = str.Empty();
if(str == null)
messagebox("its null")
else
messagebox("its just empty["+str+"]")
[/QUOTE]
but who really cares? now im curious, eh ill try it later.