Udo Richter wrote:
Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
The ability to "catch the main thread" will be implemented by the second attached patch (vdr-1.3.46-mainthreadhook.diff), so that no "dirty tricks" should be necessary.
--- plugin.h 2005/08/27 16:13:17 1.10 +++ plugin.h 2006/04/17 09:18:16 @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ virtual bool Start(void); virtual void Stop(void); virtual void Housekeeping(void);
- virtual void MainThreadHook(void);
Nice thing to have, but while we're at it, what about a way to open the OSD from there? That way we could get rid of the CallPlugin / MainMenuAction hacks altogether. Just allow cOsdObject* as return type.
Of course this wont solve the races between plugins. Only one can be shown in one pass, the rest must be destroyed.
Let's not get carried away ;-)
This was a quick way of allowing a plugin to do something in the main thread context that otherwise couldn't be done.
Now I want to wrap things up for the final approach to version 1.4.
Klaus