How to capture Event? (1 Viewer)

[mbuzina]

Hi All,

Seems obvious, but I would like to capture an event for MP that would trigger my small process plugin to show a Dialog. I am setting up a small Help Plugin, that takes WIndowId and ControlId and shows some text from an XML file.

But: How to activate the "blody" thing, I still do not know

 

[samuel337]

IIRC, add an event handler to the appropriate delegate in the MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIGraphicsContext class, either Receivers (for messages) or OnNewAction (for actions).

I think you should listen in for messages; there's a GUI_WINDOW_INIT message that gets sent everytime the window changes.

Sam

 

[mbuzina]

samuel337: Thanks for the info, after searching around I found the way to listen to onAction and check for keys. But adding new events (for the mapper to use) would mean changing the core, I guess.

 

[mPod]

What action would you need?

 

[mbuzina]

Hi mPod,

It was related to the help plugin I mad (accidentally deleted thread). So I wanted a global action message saying "HELP_NEEDED" so that people can map it to any key / remote etc. But that can come in time. I now found a way to capture the key events (onAction) and I now use the ? key to show help.

 

[mPod]

Well, if you want I could add an "ACTION_DISPLAY_HELP" action... But if it's not needed i won't do that, of course...