How to find out if the skin engine is ready? (1 Viewer)

[Lightning303]

Hey,
i have the following problem.

In our plugin AtmoLight, during MP startup, AtmoLight tries to connect to other services like AtmoWin or a RaspberryPi, if this connection fails, AtmoLight displays a GUIDialogOK to tell the user that connecting failed.
If this dialog gets called before MP is ready to display it (still on splashscreen), MP just freezes. So you can see the splashscreen that is saying "Starting plugins" and thats it.

So i want to know how i can check if the MP gui is actually ready to display a dialog, so this wont happen.

I already tried:

GUIWindowManager.Initalized

Doesnt work, as it return true even if the splashscreen is still on.

GUIGraphicsContext.CurrentState

Also doesnt work, as it returns RUNNING even if the splashscreen is still on.

Also tried some others but had no luck with any of them.

Thanks!

 

[Lightning303]

Anybody?

 

[Edalex]

How to find out if MP is ready is the biggest mystery for all plugin devs through years

 

[Lightning303]

do not can check for the process of MP ?
Keyword "WaitForInputIdle"

Doesnt seem to work
I tried getting the mp process and then waiting with this:

Process myProcess = Process.GetCurrentProcess();
myProcess.WaitForInputIdle();

but i just get this exception:

System.InvalidOperationException: Fehler bei WaitForInputIdle. Möglicherweise hat der Prozess keine grafische Schnittstelle.

However i think i was able to fix another problem with WaitForInputIdle . Thank you!

 

[Lightning303]

I dont have an idle loop.
All i want is to check if MP has finished loading when i try to open a dialog, so MP wont crash/freeze.

Something like this:

private void MyMethod()
{
  // Check if MP is ready

  GUIDialogOK myDialog = (GUIDialogOK)GUIWindowManager.GetWindow((int)GUIWindow.Window.WINDOW_DIALOG_OK);
  ...
  ...
}

So i now tried this:

private void MyMethod()
{
 
  Process myProcess = Process.GetCurrentProcess();
  myProcess.Refresh();
  myProcess.WaitForInputIdle();

  GUIDialogOK myDialog = (GUIDialogOK)GUIWindowManager.GetWindow((int)GUIWindow.Window.WINDOW_DIALOG_OK);
  ...
  ...
}

And that throws the exception i quoted above.

 

[Lightning303]

We have a winner!

Thank you!