[vdr] Re: Calling plugins derived from cOsdObject

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Christian Wieninger wrote:
> 
> Hi Klaus,
> 
> > "Calling plugins from other plugins"?
> > What's that?
> >
> 
> the idea was: I wanted to write a plugin from which one can launch other
> plugins. The reason: Some plugins are not used very often, but can be
> configured to appear/disappear in the main menu, e.g. femon, dvd, vcd. When
> I disable them, but want to call them, I first have to go to the setup menu,
> enable them, close the osd and reopen the osd. After using, the same
> procedure to disable them. Of course, itīs not a big thing, but I thought it
> would be nice to have a plugin, which always lists all other plugins and
> allows to launch them, regardless if the appear in the main menu or not. The
> whole thing was also meant as a little excercise for me in writing my first
> plugin.
> 
> So I tried to call them in the same way as you do in the cMainMenu:
> 
> if (p) {
>     cOsdObject *menu = p->MainMenuAction();
>     if (menu) {
>         if (menu->IsMenu())
>             return AddSubMenu((cOsdMenu *)menu);
>         else {
>             pluginOsdObject = menu;
>             return osPlugin;
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> But since pluginOsdObject is privat, I cannot do this the same way. Plugins
> with menus work fine.
> My question: is there a way to launch plugins, that are derived from
> cOsdObject?

This will be obsolete as soon as the main menu is enabled to put
plugins into user configurable subdirectories. Then you can have
at minimum one main menu entry (maybe called "Plugins") and from
there you can select whatever you want (or even go through several
more submenus of plugins).

Klaus


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