Plugin development guidance (1 Viewer)

[spdygnlz]

I've decided that I want to try my hand at a new plugin. I went through the tutorial and everything works great. Now I'm trying to figure out what's available. For example, I'd like to access the program listings, but I don't know if there's a library that I should use to access it or if I should directly call the database directly. Once the user finds a show, I'd like to take them to the existing screen that allows them to schedule a recording of that particular show. I bet that's possible, I just don't know where to go to get started.

Is there any form of documentation on libraries available?

Thanks

 

[jameson_uk]

Sadly there is no proper documentation. What you can do is look at the existing code though and you will work out a lot from there.

 

[mm1352000]

Hi spdygnlz

In most cases you should just be able to use the TvBusinessLayer library to access the information you need. For example, you can call:

TvBusinessLayer layer = new TvBusinessLayer();
List<Program> programs = GetOnairNow();  // Get the list of programs that are currently on air.

There is no specific documentation, but the method names should be reasonably self explanatory. For example, I think you could guess what GetPrograms(channel, startTime, endTime) would return.

mm

 

[spdygnlz]

mm1352000,
Wow, great tip on the TvBusinessLayer! Thanks!

jameson_uk,
I can appreciate the difficulty in getting documentation together. Do you have any suggestions where I can start looking? There's a lot of code there.