Bernd Juraschek wrote: > Hello, > > I want to create a plugin which informs other applications about vdr > status changes. This is no problem for start/stop of recording and > replaying. But I want also detect other status changes without "polling" > the vdr structures. > > Now my questions/wishes: > > - It would be nice to extend the cStatus class with some more events > (such as adding, removing or changing timers or channels, This could be detected by watching the timestamps of channels.conf and timers.conf. > change of the next active timer, Just use SVDRP NEXT. > disk full warnings, Any application can check the disk usage directly. > deletion of recordings). Why would an external application need to know that? > - Plugins can iterate on timer and channel lists. But I think, this > lists are not thread safe for concurrent iterating and modifying > by vdr and plugins with own threads. You're right, they're not thread safe. But since you wrote that you want to inform "other applications" about these things, and I have shown you ways how to do that (see above), I don't think these things are actually necessary in cStatus. Klaus
