How to modify GUIRecordedTV (1 Viewer)

[nino]

Hi -

Sorry - this might be a stupid newbie question...

I wanted to add a context menu option in the Recorded TV screen which allows to move a recording to another (videos) directory while deleting the recording from the database.

I made some changes to GUIRecordedTV.cs, compiled it, got a new WindowPlugins.dll and copied it to ...\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\plugins\Windows. However, no matter which changes I make - they don't show up when I run Mediaportal.

I tried some test changes like a "return;" in the first line of OnShowContextMenu() but Mediaportal still shows the context menu. However, I was able to "see" changes I made for testing purposes in dialogs.dll...

Probably I am missing something obvious?

Thank you for any help,

nino.

 

[nino]

...can somebody just give me a general idea which cs file has to be modified and which dll has to be exchanged in order to modifiy the context menu in the recordings section?

Any hint would be greatly appreciated,

thanks,

nino.

 

[johnlc]

GUIrecordedtv.cs in OnShowContextMenu() - my best guess

I like your ideas, I have been thinking about the same, I just don't want to delete it from database, but save them in anotherplace, on another disk, maybe. SO that they don't show up in this list, but maybe a list from another directory.

 

[nino]

Hi johnlc,

Thanks for your reply - I'm glad somebody else likes the idea

I modified OnShowContextMenu() in GUIrecordedtv.cs, compiled a new WindowPlugins.dll and put the new dll in my MediaPortal\plugins\Windows folder.

Is there anything else I need to exchange?

Thanks!

nino.

 

[tourettes]

Are you using TVE2 or TVE3?

 

[nino]

Hi tourettes,

I'm using TVE3. Restarting tvservice didn't make a difference and I couldn't find anything related in the tvengine development tree...

It seems like I miss something really simple and obvious...

thank you for your help!

nino.

 

[johnlc]

Because if you are using TV3 then it is in
Mediaportal\TVEngine3\TVLibrary\TvPlugin\TvPlugin

TVrecorded.cs - you were faster Tourettes

I forget it every time. I just checkked it is also there - I will test with compile.

 

[tourettes]

In that case you need to modify following binary: tvplugin.dll

sources are in Mediaportal\TvEngine3\TVLibrary\TvPlugin

 

[nino]

Great - thank you! (cause and effect are established again!)



nino.