Summary of plugin methods? (1 Viewer)

[jmbillings]

I wonder if anyone can give brief overview of some of the plugin methods? I'm trying to force my background image to display before my plugin makes it's network calls (i.e. if I was making a winforms app, I'm looking for the equivalent of DoEvents() )

The plugin has methods like OnPageLoad, OnInit, OnDeInit etc- what's the lifecycle of all these? I'm thinking in a similar vein to the Android activity lifecycle

The controls themselves seem to offer things like Refresh, Render, DoRender, DoUpdate... these all sound sort of similar, what are the differences?

Any pointers appreciated

 

[tourettes]

For any long lasting work (more than 1ms) you should use a worker thread so you arent blocking the render/main thread.

 

[jmbillings]

Yeah, I'm already using OpenReadAsync which I assumed wouldn't block the UI thread?

 

[jmbillings]

Hmm, think maybe it's not a blocking issue actually. If I comment out my download code the problem persists.
I basically want my plugin screen to be black on entry; so in my skin, I have the following:

<control>
<description>image</description>
<type>image</type>
<id>3</id>
<posX>0</posX>
<posY>0</posY>
<width>1920</width>
<height>1080</height>
<texture>black.jpg</texture>
</control>

When the plugin loads though, the default skin wallpaper is still visible. What am I missing? Is there an easier way to accomplish this?