United Kingdom
I've just been writing a plugin and to configure it outside of MediaPortal is a pain, using real windows controls etc. (I did find something on config issues but nothing definite.)
Now some things might need this - I certainly couldn't/wouldn't want to set up WebEPG using the onscreen keyboard and no mouse! But most things are quite simple.
For mine I needed to save a couple of values and (according to the dev guide) you use a xml file and MP calls.
Inside the plugin this is trivial (about 6 lines of code, stolen from SourceForge - thanks guys
) and I just dumped a 'Save' button onto the plugin screen.
This means you can change it 'on the fly' and just carry on. (OnPageLoad reads the config file.)
Maybe this strategy could be useful/used for other plugins too?
Also in a simialr generic editor I did a while back, instead of numbers for fields (in the skin XML file) we mapped names which is a lot more intuitive and a lot more understandable. No way is this a sticking point, it's only something you have to do when developing after all!
Hope this doesn't tread on anyone's toes, I am VERY impressed with both MediaPortal and the standard of code.
Now some things might need this - I certainly couldn't/wouldn't want to set up WebEPG using the onscreen keyboard and no mouse! But most things are quite simple.
For mine I needed to save a couple of values and (according to the dev guide) you use a xml file and MP calls.
Inside the plugin this is trivial (about 6 lines of code, stolen from SourceForge - thanks guys
) and I just dumped a 'Save' button onto the plugin screen.This means you can change it 'on the fly' and just carry on. (OnPageLoad reads the config file.)
Maybe this strategy could be useful/used for other plugins too?
Also in a simialr generic editor I did a while back, instead of numbers for fields (in the skin XML file) we mapped names which is a lot more intuitive and a lot more understandable. No way is this a sticking point, it's only something you have to do when developing after all!
Hope this doesn't tread on anyone's toes, I am VERY impressed with both MediaPortal and the standard of code.