Non graphical plugin

[hansi]

Does anyone have experience with non-graphical plugins? Is it possible to have a plugin that has no button in the menus, but is also not an InfoPanel?

I tried the InfoPanel interface, but I have a problem in that the destructor is never called when GBPVR is supposed to exit.

[Jeff]

What are you trying to do in this plug-in?

[HenkH]

I tried the InfoPanel interface, but I have a problem in that the destructor is never called when GBPVR is supposed to exit.

Remember you are programming in a .NET environment which doesn't have a real destructor. .NET is supposed to have a decent garbage collector which frees up stuff which you normally have to do yourself in a language like C++.

I you really want to clean up stuff yourself you have your class to be inherited from the IDisposable interface. Define a Dispose() method, which might be called during program termination.

See this articles on MSDN for more info:
Programming for Garbage Collection (.NET Framework Developer's Guide)
INFO: Roadmap for Garbage Collection in the Microsoft .NET Framework

[hansi]

Thanks guys,

I'm looking again at getting some WinLIRC support into GBPVR. For that, I start a thread to pick up the remote codes and send the keystrokes to GBPVR. When I exit GBPVR, I need tot kill this thread. Coming from C++, I just put something in the destructor, but it is never called (still learning C++/C# differences). The result is, that GBPVR never really exits because the thread keeps running.

Is there another way the plugin can be informed that the app is exiting?

[sub]

When you start a thread in .net you can set the .backround=true attribute so that it wont stop the application closing.

[hansi]

Thanks, sub! I'll give it a try.