Developing plugins

[reven]

ok i decided to do it like sub suggested, putting most of the setup code in the xml skin file, so can be altered easily for different skins, just want some help opening the skin.xml file like the code for the genreal config is XmlDocument settings = PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().GetConfiguration(); is there an easy piece of code that can reference the skin.xml file? (kinda new to xml, only really done a few things with it)

i fixed the white border problem thingy using "Graphics.FromImage(compositeScreenImage).DrawImage(....)" if anyone encounters the same problem

[srchuck]

sub,

I'd like to do the display of available theaters and movies in my plugin with a layout similar to the one you use for the available recordings. Can you give me any pointers?

Thanks,
SrChuck

[dito]

I sure would like to know how to access video/audio filters... I was thinking of a DVB plugin or a streaming client... Does anyone have some code to share regarding the filters?

Best regards!

[reven]

is it possible (im pretty sure it is) to add plugins to the main menu? if so how? like can you give me an example or skeleton code or something.
i want to add a clock, diskspace and possible a news ticker to the main menu. ive made a new skin and want to integrate these features into it.

[sub]

If you search for IInfoPanel you'll find a couple of posts about it. Unfortunately I dont have a sample for you.

[Jeff]

I am trying to provide the ability manage scheduled recording groups. When I call scheduleHelper.CancelScheduledRecording(scheduledRecording) it doesn't throw an exceptions so it seems to work but the recording doesn't get deleted. Is there some other process that needs to be followed for deleting reoccuring recordings? When I call the method for single recordings.

Jeff

[jorm]

I had this problem when I tried to delete reocurring programs. Single one shot recordings cancelled fine.

I had to delete it from the database. Not the solution I wanted. But it did work.

[Guest]

Yes; that's what I did as well. I hate to go straight to the DB however since it seems like something that could break in a future release. Since the built-in recordings plug-in can delete reoccuring records it seems like this is either a bug in the cancel recordings method or the wrong method to call in this case.

Jeff

[sub]

The plugin helper should be able to cancel them, but I guess there is something broken. I'll try and take a look at it before the next release. I'm a little busy at the moment.

[normanr]

hi there sub,

I'm trying to implement IRecordingSource in my own plugin, but the neither the config app nor the main executable seems to be trying to create an instance of my class. Is there some wierd magic I need to do to get the config to pick it up?

( I can get IMenuTask, IEventNotification and IInfoPanel test classes to work )