how to detect that mediaportal is closed in a plugin (1 Viewer)

[packstlauren]

Hi,

I'm writing a plugin and i need to manage my own thread. But when i closed MediaPortal my thread continue to run. I want to stop it when mediaportal is closing.


Thanks,

Pack

 

[patrick]

Hi,

I'm writing a plugin and i need to manage my own thread. But when i closed MediaPortal my thread continue to run. I want to stop it when mediaportal is closing.


Thanks,

Pack

I am guessing you are writing a process plugin.
IIRC, it is part of the IPlugin interface

public void Stop()
{
}

HTH,
patrick

 

[packstlauren]

Thanks for your help !

As I'm writing a GuiWindow plugin, the IPplugin interface can't solve my problem. But i find a solution with a System.Windows.Forms.Timer() like in the alarm plugin.

I tried to search documentation about MediaPortal source code. But I haven't found anything...Does it exist a documentation ?

Pack

 

[nefreyu]

As any plugin is a class that is instantiated by MP and will be destroyed by MP on close, you should be able to override the destroy method ( not sure how it is called in C#) and do your cleanup in their I suppose.

 

[reagan+carter]

it is not really advisable to put code intot the destructor if you still need to communicate with MediaPortal

~name_of_your_class()

you'd better use the DeInit() procedure of the main plugin form

procedure public override void DeInit()

which is safe.

 

[packstlauren]

Perhaps i think wrong, but i think that the deinit method is call when you quit the window page of the plugin. So if you want to run a process even if the user is not on the plugin page the deinit method cannot be used to kill the process.

 

[reagan+carter]

hello,
the main plugin form is loaded at startup and only released when mediaportal shuts down. So DeInit() should work (the comments in the code were not clear on the subject). However you're right regarding the GUI_MSG_WINDOW_DEINIT message in the OnMessage() loop, this one is sent each time the form is hidden. My mistake.

I've edited the above post.

 

[reagan+carter]

1) Mediaportal main loop is required to terminate [app.OnExit(), MediaPortal.cs, line 355]
2) The Window Manager is asked to shut down any window it still handles [GUIWindowManager.Clear(), MediaPortal.cs, line 1032]
3) Each window (including plugins, which are dynamically loaded at satrtup) cleans its own mess (_listWindows[x].DeInit(), GUIWindowManager.cs, line 432)

I use DeInit() myself to properly terminate my own threads when MediaPortal stops.

 

[packstlauren]

You're right !
The Deinit method is called when MediaPortal is closing.

Thanks for your help.


Pack