Pop-up windows by a Process Plugin (1 Viewer)

[xmp]

Hello All,

I’m new developing Mediaportal plugins so any help or advice is highly welcome.

I've already developed a Plugin that checks the status of certain home automation devices (this requires a backgroung(process) task that will be listening status updates and alarms). I’m developing another plugin that will show the state of all the available elements.

I would like to know if it’s possible to show notifications(pop-ups) inside Mediaportal even if you are watching TV, Weather or if you are in any available plugin. For instance, suppose I get a water leakage event, I would like to show a pop-up showing alarm information and location. Is there any API in the Skin or Plugin to achieve this?

Thanks in advance.

 

[SilentException]

You can check active window ID. There is also event in GUIWindowManager which fires when active window changes. For TV, I'm sure there is a method or property in TVPlugin which can tell you whether TV/radio is playing. Maybe even in g_player class.

To show notifications you can use any of available dialogs but I think GUIDialogNotify is the best for the purpose. Since you'll be doing this from background thread you need to invoke showing of dialog, something like GUIUtils.cs - subcentral - Download & manage subtitles - plugin for MediaPortal HTPC application - Google Project Hosting, you can also take complete GUIUtils class to work with (Few plugins took this class already )

 

[Edalex]

Thanks. Don't know that global notification are posible. I will definitely use GUIUtils

 

[xmp]

That was definively what I was looking for. Adding this code in the process plugin I'm able to show notifications in the current window.

GUIDialogNotify dlgNotify = (GUIDialogNotify)GUIWindowManager.GetWindow((int)GUIWindow.Window.WINDOW_DIALOG_NOTIFY);
if (null != dlgNotify)
{
dlgNotify.SetHeading("HEADING");
dlgNotify.SetText("TEXT");
dlgNotify.SetImage(@"Warning_Green.png");
dlgNotify.SetImageDimensions(new System.Drawing.Size(150, 150), true, true);
dlgNotify.DoModal(GUIWindowManager.ActiveWindow);
}

Thanks.

 

[Scrounger]

AW: Pop-up windows by a Process Plugin

I have nearly the same question.
But i develop a plugin for the TvServer.

I would like to show a message on all MPClients, if a process starts / ends.
And i would like to use only the TvServer classes / libaries, because of supporting a stand alone Sever installation.

I am grateful for every suggestion.

 

[Edalex]

Is it possible to invoke Notify dialog from windows plugin in other windows plugin?

 

[xmp]

Edalex I'm not sure if ti's possible from a Windows Plugin, but I've tried with a process plugin and notification Dialog is shown on the current screen/plugin. I think it'll probably work also from another Windows Plugin.

 

[SilentException]

Yes ofcourse it's possible. That's why dialogs exist. However, only one dialog at a time is possible so you cannot stack them. Opening new dialog while old is still showing will close old one.

 

[Edalex]

So it's strange that I can see notification only in native windows. I will dig deeper in tvplugin code. I remembered that "tvs erver lost connection" is visible in every plugin.