way of seeing in GBPVR on PC whether MVP is connected etc

[HarryH3]

I do have a question though......... The MVP disconnected says "disconnected" however it doesnt pull its NAME from the config file doing this... i am sure it used to...

The names are linked to the MAC address. The tool can't display the name for a disconnected (switched off) MVP because it can no longer pull the MAC address from the MVP. Without that info, it doesn't know for sure which MVP is off. I suppose that since the MVP server is still running on the PC, the tool knows to display the icon. I never see the name I've configured for each MVP until that MVP is brought out of standby and starts communicating with the server.

I'm glad that Sub changed the way the dll's load, so the icon stays in the tray when the MVP is switched off.

As for the multiple icons sometimes, that seems to be an oddity in Windows itself. I see them for other tray apps from time to time also. Mousing over the "bad" icons makes them disappear.

[Major Hostility]

I posted an updated version of the plugin to the wiki that should be better about removing the tray icon when the application restarts:

[indent]Plugin MVPTrayIcon[/indent]

[HarryH3]

Awesome! Thanks! Just downloaded it.

[mvallevand]

For those that don't need an interactive toolbar, the next build of mvpmc will show what playing in mvpmc's web server. The logic was there, I didn't think people really cared to know.

Code:

Built: Wed Nov 7 13:10:10 EST 2007
System Time Wed Nov 7 14:01:11 2007
Now Playing:
C:\mp3\ROBERT~1\COMICO~1\01STAY~1.MP3

We'd need a wishlist item for GBPVR to pass the long filename.

Martin

I forgot to mention that mvpmc.org nightly and the alpha (they are are same) have the now playing code so you can check out the status from any pc on your network too.

Martin

[jksmurf]

I posted an updated version of the plugin to the wiki that should be better about removing the tray icon when the application restarts:

[INDENT]Plugin MVPTrayIcon[/INDENT]

Yippeee!! Thanks MH.

btw, wiki says:

To install, copy the extracted “MVP Tray Icon.dll” file into the GB-PVR plugins folder, and then restart the recording service.

as per sub's posts on how to handle Legacy Plugins, and as there is no installer, I think you have to install this in a "legacy" subdirectory to the Plugins dir?

See e.g. this post and this post

k.

[SFX Group]

Yippeee!! Thanks MH.

btw, wiki says:

as per sub's posts on how to handle Legacy Plugins, and as there is no installer, I think you have to install this in a "legacy" subdirectory to the Plugins dir?

See e.g. this post and this post

k.

I just created a sub folder called "MVPTRAYICON" and put it in there, works..

[TobyO]

SFX

Thanks for that little bit of info about making a subdirectory. My tray icons work perfectly now.

Major Hostility Its nice to see this plugin back on my computer. Thank you for writtting it.

Tobyo

[ralphy]

The actual intelligence behind MVP Tray Icon is very simple, it just uses IEventNotification to watch for changes and reflects them in the tray, so a tray icon project which already has some kind of interprocess communication implemented should be able to add MVP icons pretty easily.

Major Hostility, If I understand your plugin correctly, it is able to determine which MVP sent an IEventNotification. Do you have a code snippet you can share to show how you acheive this? I don't use MVP's but my plugin which is an LCD/VFD ExternalDisplay is used on systems that may include multiple MVP servers. It uses IEventNotification, but apparently it responds to all events on the network, but I want it to respond only to events on the machine upon which the plugin was installed.

Thanks

[Major Hostility]

The plugin checks the value returned from the following function:

[indent]PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().GetClientIdentifier();[/indent]

Instances of GB-PVR serving MVPs will return a string that starts with "MVP".

[ralphy]

The plugin checks the value returned from the following function:

[indent]PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().GetClientIdentifier();[/indent]

Instances of GB-PVR serving MVPs will return a string that starts with "MVP".

Do I understand this to mean that upon receiving an IEventNotification, you call PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().GetClientIdentifier(); to determine who sent the event?