Help needed: Writing own GUIDialog for Plugin (1 Viewer)

[junkixl]

Hi,

I'm playing around with my first window plugin and now I got some problems with the GUIDialogs.
To be more precise, I try to write my own one.

I created a new class and inherited MediaPortal.Dialogs.GUIDialogWindow (the whole class is nearly a copy of GUIDialogYesNo). Then, I created my own skinfile (also, nearly a copy of dialogYesNo.xml).

to load and show the dialog, i tried it with the following code

GUIDialogMyOwnOne dlg = new GUIDialogMyOwnOne();
dlg.DoModal(GetID);

But it failed (of course )
It seems, that I have to use the GUIWindowManager. But I have no idea how to do that.
If I want to load and show one of the existing ones, the GUIWindowManager gives me an Instance of a specified dialog. I just have to pass him some kind of WindowID.
But my own Dialog has no such WindowID.
How could I add my own WindowID to the existing ones?
Is there a simpler way to display a completely customised dialog (I would like to use any control I could use for skins)?

Any ideas?

Greez
JunkiXL

 

[cheezey]

Have you read MediaPortal1_Development/PluginDevelopersGuide - MediaPortal Manual Documentation

 

[ZealotSix]

junkixl, I've been down this road before, and had all the same problems you are describing. I was trying to create a dialog with the same functionality as GUIDialogYesNo, only with different button captions (retry/cancel in my case). I was unsucesful in creating my own dialog without requiring a custom skin, etc. What I ended up doing was modifying the GUIDialogYesNo at runtime. I do not know what you are trying to accomplish, but if you just want to change the button captions, you can do what I did:

        /// <summary>
        /// Displays a yes/no dialog with custom labels for the buttons
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>True if yes was clicked, False if no was clicked</returns>
        private bool ShowCustomYesNo(string heading, string lines, string yesLabel, string noLabel, bool defaultYes) {
            GUIDialogYesNo dialog = (GUIDialogYesNo)GUIWindowManager.GetWindow((int)GUIWindow.Window.WINDOW_DIALOG_YES_NO);
            try {
                dialog.Reset();
                dialog.SetHeading(heading);
                string[] linesArray = lines.Split(new string[] { "\\n" }, StringSplitOptions.None);
                if (linesArray.Length > 0) dialog.SetLine(1, linesArray[0]);
                if (linesArray.Length > 1) dialog.SetLine(2, linesArray[1]);
                if (linesArray.Length > 2) dialog.SetLine(3, linesArray[2]);
                if (linesArray.Length > 3) dialog.SetLine(4, linesArray[3]);
                dialog.SetDefaultToYes(defaultYes);

                foreach (System.Windows.UIElement item in dialog.Children) {
                    if (item is GUIButtonControl) {
                        GUIButtonControl btn = (GUIButtonControl)item;
                        if (btn.GetID == 11 && !String.IsNullOrEmpty(yesLabel)) // Yes button
                            btn.Label = yesLabel;
                        else if (btn.GetID == 10 && !String.IsNullOrEmpty(noLabel)) // No button
                            btn.Label = noLabel;
                    }
                }
                dialog.DoModal(GetID);

                return dialog.IsConfirmed;
            }
            finally {
                // set the standard yes/no dialog back to it's original state (yes/no buttons)
                if (dialog != null)
                    dialog.ClearAll();
            }
        }

Hope this helps. If you end up doing something different, please post back here, because I would be interested in seeing it.

 

[SilentException]

you have to make your class GUIMyDialog: GUIDialogWindow, do and override stuff there..

then calling it like this

mydlg = (GUIMyDialog)GUIWindowManager.GetWindow(MyDialogID);
mydlg.DoModal(GetID);

 

[junkixl]

Never try something new with german umlaut in a skin file
In the skin file of my own dialog I changed the button caption of the no button to "Löschen". Replacing the ö character and now it runs like SilentExcept said.

ZealotSix
an alternative method to change caption would be to create your own skinfile (copy of dialog skin file you want to change should do) and change caption there. Copy the refering GUIDialogClass and rename it. Now change the IDs in your skin file and in your new GUI Class and call it like SilentExcept said. Do not use strings with special chars in skin files!

lets see what happens when I try to customize that dialog...


Greez
JunkiXL