On Dienstag, 26. Juli 2005 18:52, Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: > On Dienstag 26 Juli 2005 14:29, Luca Olivetti wrote: > > Stefan Lucke wrote: > > > Is there another way for a plugin to display a message during > > > background processing ? > > > Preferably a _non_ blocking way,as I noticed that Skins.Message() > > > does it's job blocking. > > > > Is there a solution for this problem? > > I now also need to notify the user of a background event, and the > > Housekeeping method (a possible candidate since it's called from the > > foreground thread) isn't suitable, since it's called only once every 60 > > seconds. > > as far as I can see the only other method is to connect to port 2001. The SVDRP port is not hardcoded, it can be specified via "-p number". So the next question would be, how can a plugin read the port our main program is listening on ? So plugins need the -p option too. Isn't it more suitable to make Skins.Message() usable for plugins ? Klaus ? > > For now we disabled those messages in muggle. > -- Stefan Lucke