> -----Original Message----- > From: vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vdr-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf > Of Udo Richter > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 10:00 AM > To: VDR Mailing List > Subject: Re: mplayer w/ softdevice > > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > >> Thats a limitation of VDR's plugin system. A plugin cannot open a menu > >> from replay mode or other situations, the only way to open a plugin > >> menu is from the main menu. > > > > Since version 1.3.32 a plugin can have its main menu function > > called through cRemote::CallPlugin(). > > Yes, already realized that. So if you want to open a menu, you can trick > cRemote to send the plugin pseudo-key, let the main loop call the main > menu action, catch that, and initiate a custom menu instead of the > default menu. Talk about straight forward. ;) At least its more straight > forward than calling SVDRP. :D > > If some other plugin decides to do the same thing just a moment later, > the call is skipped, so maybe its a good idea to watch for a timeout > between CallPlugin() and MainMenuAction(). > > And of course there's that nasty problem of plugins loaded twice with > the same name, in which case the MainMenuAction of the first loaded > plugin will get all the calls. ;) I've looked through vdr-portal and found this thread w/ patch: return-patch.tgz - http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=40892&sid=5dcd58226ce4dfa f1604598297e58db9 I did not test it yet, will do over weekend, I can't read German but it looks like work around for my issue. Thanks, --Vlad
