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What I would probably do is to completely transfer my Meedio plugin to MediaPortal. It comes with a Screen Manager, which manages a stack of different screens and makes sure that everything is displayed at the defined time.
It also comes with a Screen Designer, which enables the user to configure different screens: What is shown, which events create a particular screen and bring it to LCD, where to put this screen on the stack, which event destroys a screen...
But to do so, the LCD plugin has to receive something to display.

I don't think there's something like a standardized message system in MediaPortal, so either such a system has to be implemented, or MediaPortal and the plugins have to talk directly to the LCD plugin.

But since the number of answers to the questions in my first post were really overwhelming, I believe neither the plugin programmers nor the MediaPortal programmers are in urgent need of such a plugin.

<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 2868">What I would probably do is to completely transfer my Meedio plugin to MediaPortal. It comes with a Screen Manager, which manages a stack of different screens and makes sure that everything is displayed at the defined time.It also comes with a Screen Designer, which enables the user to configure different screens: What is shown, which events create a particular screen and bring it to LCD, where to put this screen on the stack, which event destroys a screen...But to do so, the LCD plugin has to receive something to display. I don't think there's something like a standardized message system in MediaPortal, so either such a system has to be implemented, or MediaPortal and the plugins have to talk directly to the LCD plugin. But since the number of answers to the questions in my first post were really overwhelming, I believe neither the plugin programmers nor the MediaPortal programmers are in urgent need of such a plugin.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 2868"] What I would probably do is to completely transfer my Meedio plugin to MediaPortal. It comes with a Screen Manager, which manages a stack of different screens and makes sure that everything is displayed at the defined time. It also comes with a Screen Designer, which enables the user to configure different screens: What is shown, which events create a particular screen and bring it to LCD, where to put this screen on the stack, which event destroys a screen... But to do so, the LCD plugin has to receive something to display. I don't think there's something like a standardized message system in MediaPortal, so either such a system has to be implemented, or MediaPortal and the plugins have to talk directly to the LCD plugin. But since the number of answers to the questions in my first post were really overwhelming, I believe neither the plugin programmers nor the MediaPortal programmers are in urgent need of such a plugin. [/QUOTE]