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Windows => Plug-in Development => Topic started by: morgan on March 30, 2008, 08:20:03 am

Title: Adding items to "Drives and Devices" side menu
Post by: morgan on March 30, 2008, 08:20:03 am

Is it possible to add items to the "drives and devices" side menu with a plug-in?

Title: Re: Adding items to "Drives and Devices" side menu
Post by: JimH on March 30, 2008, 08:21:51 am

No.  But it may be possible to add a service.  What's your plan?

Title: Re: Adding items to "Drives and Devices" side menu
Post by: morgan on March 30, 2008, 09:50:41 am

I've added uPnP device discovery to JR via an "interface plug-in", and the plan is to add the discovered devices (renderers and media servers) to the Devices menu...
From there, I'd want to be able to attach a (upnp renderer) device to a zone, and have it follow the currently playing track.

Title: Re: Adding items to "Drives and Devices" side menu
Post by: John Gateley on March 31, 2008, 10:01:15 am

This is a nice idea. Keep in mind it is something we might choose to do in house as well. I'd suggest getting the plug-in working without modifying the device tree, and then we'll take a look at getting it in the device tree.

j

Title: Re: Adding items to "Drives and Devices" side menu
Post by: morgan on March 31, 2008, 05:43:38 pm

Great to hear you consider it a useful feature too.  There are a handful of decent UPnP media renderers on the market, but they all need a much better user interface.

I'll keep hacking...