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Windows => Plug-in Development => Topic started by: KingSparta on July 09, 2003, 03:07:57 pm

Title: Plug-In Mode
Post by: KingSparta on July 09, 2003, 03:07:57 pm

Matt:

It Seems That Plug-Ins Run All The Time Now

When You Enter And Exit A Plugin They Will Not automaticly Update The Media List That Is In Playing Now.

Is There A Way To Allow The PlugIn To Only Work When Your In the Plug-In? (Plug-In Mode Does Not Seem to Work Now)

Is There A Way To Know When You Enter Or Exit A Plug-In Now?

I Really Don't Want The Plugin To Mess Up Peoples Media Files.

If This Is Something That Is Going To Be Fixed Or If There Is Something I Can Do Please Tell Me.

Please.

(Anyone Else?)

Title: Re: Plug-In Mode
Post by: Klingler on July 18, 2003, 12:38:02 pm

Posting for two reasons:

A) To encourage JRiver to tell 3rd parties how to implement plug-ins that work like they used to; and

B) To inform of a possible work-around in the mean time.  You can manually stop any plug-in from working by using the Plug-in Manager (off the Tools Menu).  You can stop and start various plug-ins, and those traits are remember upon exiting and restarting MC.  If you Stop and Start a plug-in, it will re-detect whatever media is currently in Playing Now.

Rob

Title: Re: Plug-In Mode
Post by: KingSparta on July 18, 2003, 01:00:32 pm

I don't know why there is no info on this, maybe they just are not sure how it will turn out, but it would sure be nice to have some info.

Title: Re: Plug-In Mode
Post by: Nikolay on July 29, 2003, 01:28:52 pm

King,

I just tried Sleep timer plug-in and plugin mode works as it should. We did not change PluginMode since we first implemented the functionality.

1, for PluginMode, means that plug-in will run in server mode (always on). 0 means that it should run only when visible.

Nikolay

Title: Re: Plug-In Mode
Post by: KingSparta on July 29, 2003, 02:36:33 pm

well you would not see the problem with Sleep timer.

but somthing changed recently because if the plug-in was always running before and a user exited the plugin would go to sub

Private Sub UserControl_Hide()

and when re-entering the plug-in it would go to sub

Private Sub UserControl_Show()

it no longer does that (at least in some of the newer builds, but  have not tried the latest).

the reason i found this out is that the playing now file list would not update in my plug-in and it points to the sub from "UserControl_Show()" since that is no called but one time the list does not update.

At any rate Last month I created a work around for this problem.