WizTools - 1.x Plugin Development Toolkit

[McBainUK]

No problem. It is a bit of a mountain at first, especially the skin files.

Out of interest what kind of project(s) do you have in mind?

[Powergrid]

I really like the idea behind the MusicLibrary2 plug-in using the ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags but would like to have the functionality such that it presents me with three lists. One for artists, one for albums and one for titles.

However, the lists would use quite a small font and have ~25 rows each. As I scroll (or SMS) on one of the lists, the other two update dynamically.

For instance, if I'm in the artist list and scroll or SMS to say "INXS", then the album list truncates to show all the "INXS" albums in my collection and the titles list truncates to show all the titles on all the albums from "INXS". Then, if I move over to the album list, the title list further dynamically truncates to show only the titles on the currently highlight album as I scroll through the list.

Or, if I start in the titles list and start to enter "Bridge", then the album list would dynamically truncate to show any albums with a song on it that starts with the word "Bridge" and the artist list would truncate to show the artists that produced the albums in the albums list.

Once I drill-down to a specific song, I could choose to play it or place it in a que. Additionally, as I "surf" across artists and albums, any album art (folder.jpg) files could/would be displayed as well as the pertinent item selected (title list = song's length, album list = album total cuts and total play length, artist list = number of albums, songs and total play time for that artist).

I've done this in VB6 using the MusicLibrary2 SQLite database already and now just need to cross-code it to C#. Thus the adventure begins.:o

Ultimately, when the music is playing, I would like to be able to invoke a full screen visualization system where I could choose/import different visualizations.

[Fatman_do]

You know, it sounds like all those features are part of ML2. With the exception that it isn't designed for PVRX2.exe (ML3 is being started if I remember correctly).

In any regards, if you have skinning questions, I am happy to help if you have any questions.

[JavaWiz]

If you have any suggestions as to how to improve the WizTools documentation and/or tutorial, feel free to post. I will try to update the documentation as time allows.

I too took on learning C# as I started developing plugins for GBPVR and remember the confusion at first, hence the WizTools and tutorial.

[Powergrid]

Sincere thanks for the pointers and words of support.

It sure has been an interesting (read frustrating:confused time for a while now, but as I read more and tinker, I am starting to have some cohesive thoughts. Another "ah-ha" moment is just realizing that all I've been running is PVRX2. I've not even tried the plugings with GBPVR...

Now I can't wait to get home from work and tinker some more.

At the very least, I'm totally in love with my mediaPC and GBPVR.

Thanks Again!

[FarNorthSAT]

If you have any suggestions as to how to improve the WizTools documentation and/or tutorial, feel free to post. I will try to update the documentation as time allows.

I too took on learning C# as I started developing plugins for GBPVR and remember the confusion at first, hence the WizTools and tutorial.

Hi Javawiz,

I'm looking at getting started on plugin development and as my main language is VB I was hoping to get straight into it...but seems everyone is using C#, Do you know if anyone has a VB sample I could get started with?

[JavaWiz]

Hi Javawiz,

I'm looking at getting started on plugin development and as my main language is VB I was hoping to get straight into it...but seems everyone is using C#, Do you know if anyone has a VB sample I could get started with?

I think idkpmiller is doing VB development, and has supplied me with an example VB plugin. I am travelling this week, so am not at my development machine. I'll try to dig up a copy, but it may have to wait til Fri/Sat when I get back home.

EDIT: Found copy of VB code supplied by idkpmiller, attached.

[FarNorthSAT]

Thanks Javawiz....now I have a good starting point :o

[McBainUK]

Hi javawiz!

Do you have any example code using cfgCreateOrUpdatePluginProperty() and other similar methods. I'm working on the the config form for a new plugin and would like to make use of the wiz library. In the past I've used Jeff's common dll but it would be nice to reduce the number of dependancys and so on.

[JavaWiz]

Sure,

Attached is the config form from MovieWiz. Refer to :

loadInitialSettings(): for code related to reading from the config, SaveManagerSettings() for code related to writing settings to the config.