Busy/Wait Indicator?

[cncb]

Is there an easy way to do this? I don't want to throw up a 'message' since it is shown too long and would rather have a more subtle indicator that I could turn on/off easily while my plugin takes a while to do something.

[sub]

There is nothing built in that would do this for you.

The GUI runs on one thread, so if you're doing some lengthy operation on that main thread, the UI is effectively going to be frozen until you tell it what to draw on the screen. For this type of scenario you can look into running that operation on a background thread, and just have the main thread return UI elements that indicate something is loading, or please wait or similar.

Regarding the generic message call, you can get it to disappear by calling the API will a null message.

[mvallevand]

In MB4 I do this a few times. When I need to do something lengthy like a music library scan, I create an instance of a SimplePopup and then I keep it open updating the popup's skin as needed. I also use the popup as the window for rendering tracks while they play with a separate skin from the main skin.

Martin

[cncb]

The delay is not that long so I'll probably just hope the user is patient but I'll keep these options in mind. Thanks.

[mvallevand]

Ok if it is only a short delay you could just clear the message box with PluginHelperFactory.GetPluginHelper().ShowMessage("");

Martin

[Jaggy]

As a user the lack of a Busy/Wait Indicator is a real pain as either a message popup jumps up on screen & more often than not it stays there way toooooooooooo long (like changing the sort order in Recordings) or like a number of plugins in particular (especially when using my snail computer as the server) they don't show any indication at all that anything is happening & you are left wondering is it????.... on the other hand the TVListings plugin (even though I don't like it as a plugin as I feel it doesn't really look or feel like a NextPVR plugin as it is now, it looks & feels like an old plugin ported to work in NextPVR) has a real neat busy/wait indicator.

[psycik]

Ok if it is only a short delay you could just clear the message box with PluginHelperFactory.GetPluginHelper().ShowMessage("");

Martin

Just to hijack, do I have to keep setting it for the message to stay up? I'm finding it only stays for for a little while then clears automatically.

Do I have to use a popup for one that the user has to clear?

[sub]

Do I have to use a popup for one that the user has to clear?

Yes. There is a SimpleMessageBox class you can use for this though. Just tell it the message and the names to display on the button(s).