New to MP pluggin development (1 Viewer)

[LudoJ]

Hi guys, I'm new to plugin development.

I'm trying to write a little process plugin. I've followed the "How to write a plugin for MP" tutorial.

For the moment, my goal is very simple, I just want to display a pop-up when MP starts.

Here is hat I've done for now:

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using MediaPortal.GUI.Library;
using MediaPortal.Dialogs;

namespace WhosCalling
{
    public class Class1 : GUIWindow, ISetupForm
    {
        public Class1()
	{
		//
		// TODO: Add constructor logic here
		//
	}

        #region IPlugin Members
        public void Start()
        {
            GUIDialogOK dlg = (GUIDialogOK)GUIWindowManager.GetWindow((int)GUIWindow.Window.WINDOW_DIALOG_OK);
            dlg.SetHeading("Hello World");
            dlg.SetLine(1, String.Empty);
            dlg.SetLine(2, String.Empty);
            dlg.SetLine(3, String.Empty);
            dlg.DoModal(GUIWindowManager.ActiveWindow);
        }

        public void Stop()
        {

        }

        #endregion


	#region ISetupForm Members
	// Returns the name of the plugin which is shown in the plugin menu
	public string PluginName()
	{
		return "MyFirstPlugin";
	}



	[...]


	#endregion
	}
}

As you can see, this is very simple...

I can see it and enable it under the configurator, but my pop-up does not show at MP's startup... What am I doing wrong?



At the same time if any one could tell me how to do a thread or a timer, that would be good


Ludo...

 

[mofux]

i'm not sure if process plugins are able to popup dialog boxes inside of mp, usually this is done with window plugins... but i could be wrong (never really wrote a process plugin)... however you could try to throw a messagebox to see if the code is reached...

MessageBox.Show("this is Start() of my first process plugin");

 

[lkuech]

Yes. Process plugin are able to show dialogs (sometimes it is better to open them in another thread).
But I'am not sure if MP is able to show a dialog at the moment the process plugins get started.
Maybe you should try to use a timer to open the dialog a little bit later.

Bye
Lars

 

[gemx]

lkuech is right.
Your code seems to be correct but MediaPortal hasn't finished initialization when the Start() function of the plugin is called, so you should use the MessageBox.Show attempt.