MPEI with 1.2 and 13 (1 Viewer)

[fforde]

Is it possible to install different components based on the MediaPortal version? Moving Pictures works fine with both 1.2 (Stable) and 1.3 (Beta/RC) but the Default and DefaultWide skin files are totally different. How can I set different skin files for different versions? I do not want to release two installers.

 

[Guzzi]

Hi fforde,
I use a script to copy the files based on the MP skin version:

using MpeCore.Classes;
using MpeCore;
using System.IO;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using MediaPortal.Common.Utils;
public class Script
{
  public static void Main(PackageClass packageClass, ActionItem actionItem)
  {
	System.Version MpSkinVersion = MediaPortal.Common.Utils.CompatibilityManager.SkinVersion;
	System.Version NewVersion = new System.Version(1, 3, 0, 0);
	if (MpSkinVersion.CompareTo(NewVersion) >= 0)
	{
	  if (!packageClass.Silent)
	  {
		MessageBox.Show("MP 1.3.x detected ! Now updating skin files ...");
	  }
... copy skin files ...
....

Actually, I use standard MPE install for MP1.2.x files and update skin files, if MP1.3 (skin version) is detected.

 

[fforde]

Thanks for the help Guzzi. I ended up deciding to go with an MPEI wrapper around our current NSIS script so we can get things released sooner now that 1.3RC is out. But this was helpful, I ended up doing something similar to get our NSIS installer to honor the silent install flag.

This script stuff in MPEI really needs some documentation though.