Diskspace plugin

[Dai]

I've pretty much finished my diskspace plugin, I went on holiday which rather stoped development for a while but got back to it at the weekend. I'm using it OK but I'm sure others will be able to break it for me

Sub, you talked about supporting a method NeedsRegularRendering(), did you add suport for this and if so, is diskspace the kind of thing it ought to be used for and how often does it get called. I think it would be good to see your diskspace going down if a recording is taking place, an update once per minute would probably be enough.

I've been reading the posts about other plugins and I'm gonna do a bit more work on making it cope if skin files dont exist but then it will be ready for others to use. Some time later this week hopefully.

Shall I email to you sub so that it can go onto your site?

Dai

[Dai]

I've just noticed the NeedsRendering() method. It seems that I can get the screen to be updated periodically by making this return true if it is more than minute since the last update. I'll try this method.

Dai

[sub]

Yes, thats the in intention of the NeedRendering() method but its not fully implemented in this release. I'll need to do a couple more things to support the MVP, but it will be ready in the next release.

[Guest]

Sub,
Would it be possible to make the time between each rendering configurable, hopefully by the plugin itself. My thinking is that I would like to have my home control plugin re-render every 10 seconds or so, while the weather plugin may not need to be rerendered but every 30 minutes or so.

[sub]

I'd prefer plugins to manage their own frequency for rendering.

While a plugin is active, I will ask it once a second if it needs rendering. You can easily store the last timestamp when the render method was called, then in the NeedRendering() method do something like:


<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
public bool NeedRendering()
{
   if (lastRenderTimeStamp < DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(-10))
   {
      return true;
   }
   
   return false;
}

public Image render(...)
{
...
lastRenderTimeStamp = DateTime.Now;
}
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[Guest]

Sub,
I'm doing some testing with this right now. I know you said it wasn't implemented in the MVP client, but is it implemented in rel 16 of the PC client? I put a debug statement in the &quot;needsRendering&quot; routine of my plug-in and it appears like it is never called.

Thanks,

Bryan

[sub]

I think it only works in the current release for the internal plugins (net radio etc), I'll enable it for the external plugins, and finish the MVP support for the next release.

[Dai]

Sub

I've coded the Diskspace plugin to use the NeedsRendering() method. I'll leave it like this and it will then start updating automatically when you add support.

It's late here now and I've had enough, I'll email the plugin to you tomorrow

Dai

[Dai]

Sub

I emailed the plugin to you, just checking if you got it.

Dai

[sisuomin]

Hmm.. I didn't find the diskspace plugin from download page. Should it be available somewhere?