Showing Weather on Menu Page

[-Oz-]

I'm gonna seperate the discussion from http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php...&postcount=191 and bring it over here.

I've never looked at the slick skin, but I believe it shows an image of the plugin, correct?

If this uses the getTaskImage() method, is it possible to have this update the icon in the slick menu? I could put that on the to-do list...

Actually it doesn't show an image; I assume I'd have to modify the skin somehow. This is what slick looks like:


My goal would be to somehow make it look something like this:

or


I assume this means I have to modify the skin as well as somehow pull the data from the plugin... opinions/ideas?

[mvallevand]

I added an interface in psycik's interface.dll that will allow any to get the current temperature, and an icon from Yahoo weather that I was hoping ACTCMS would build into MLPanel. You can't do much on the main screen hover because sub owns that.

Martin

[whurlston]

You could modify the CurrentTime placement in the skin to something like:

		<CompositeImage name="CurrentTime" size="49,5">
			<DrawRoundedRect loc="0.5,0.5" size="99,98" fillColor="Black" borderColor="Transparent" radius="2" borderWidth="0"/>
			<DrawImage filename="..\weather2\current.png" loc="0,0" size="25,100" fixedAspectRatio="true" align="left"/>
			<DrawText text="@currentTime" loc="25,0" size="75,100" textStyle="GeneralTextStyle" align="Center" valign="Center"/>
		</CompositeImage>

And then just save the image to the same place each time (..\weather2\current.png in the example) Not sure how you would add the temp though. I also don't know how often sub reloads the images in the placements.

[-Oz-]

We used to be able to get stuff on that main screen via plugin panels I think... I take it that died when pvrx2 came into existence.

Whurlston: very interesting idea. Could i just modify the skin you think to include some of my own text?

[sub]

1.2.9 added the ability for plugins to display panels, by implementing the IUiPanel interface, and a minor alteration to the menu skin.xml file.

[mvallevand]

Can a simple plugin instantiate itself without having a menu item?

Martin

[scb147]

I think this would be a neat thing to have, but I have bigger issues with the MVP/NMT's right now that I need to focus on.

So this would have to wait...