Check if skin is loaded? (1 Viewer)

[GetWell]

Hi,

Is there a way for checking if a skin is loaded?

The scenario are: a users changes skin from a supported skin to a unsupported, and then my plugin will fail because the controls isn't there anymore.
I will then disable my plugin instead of crash.

My plugin is an overlay

 

[DieBagger]

Hi,

Is there a way for checking if a skin is loaded?

The scenario are: a users changes skin from a supported skin to a unsupported, and then my plugin will fail because the controls isn't there anymore.
I will then disable my plugin instead of crash.

My plugin is an overlay

You can just check the control for null (after Init).

[SkinControlAttribute(1)]
protected GUIButtonControl btnMyButton = null;

private bool CheckIfLoaded()
{
   return btnMyButton != null;
}

 

[GetWell]

will btnMyButton be set back to null when shifting from supported skin back to unsupported skin?

 

[DieBagger]

will btnMyButton be set back to null when shifting from supported skin back to unsupported skin?

I would say yes, but you'll have to try it out...

 

[GetWell]

hmm I am seeing two different behaviors:

1. Starting with a unsupported skin, the plugin don't work at all, and is not coming up after changing to a supported skin
2. Starting with a supported skin, the plugin starts well. Shifting to unsupported, where I get an error

that tells me that Init() only gets called once, which makes sense.. but which method gets called every time the skin is changed?

 

[DieBagger]

hmm I am seeing two different behaviors:

1. Starting with a unsupported skin, the plugin don't work at all, and is not coming up after changing to a supported skin
2. Starting with a supported skin, the plugin starts well. Shifting to unsupported, where I get an error

that tells me that Init() only gets called once, which makes sense.. but which method gets called every time the skin is changed?

I talked with a few guys and it seems that even the big plugins (mp-tvseries, mopi) don't specially handle this type of situation. I also looked at the sourcecode and there is no event thrown after a skin is changed. You can check

GUIGraphicsContext.Skin

to see if the skin has changed.

 

[ltfearme]

You can listen to Skin Changes and then Re-Init.

e.g. In TVSeries we re-load skin settings based on new skin that gets loaded. Basically you store the current skin, and if user exits settings window you can check if currentskin == previousskin. I think there is also some ACTIONS you can listen to as well.

 

[ltfearme]

Here is some sample code that listens to the OnDeactivateWindow event:

https://github.com/Technicolour/Trakt-for-Mediaportal/blob/master/TraktPlugin/TraktPlugin.cs#L407