Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee Plugin creation

["Joe Harnish" <bigjoe1008 gmail com>]

On 10/6/06, Patrick van Staveren <trick vanstaveren us> wrote:

I agree, this plugin would be very useful.  The banshee-sample-plugin
on svn.banshee-project.org should be up to date and provide a good
starting template (I've based every plugin I've written on that).

Also, as a FYI, make sure that you're developing against banshee from
CVS - the D-Bus stuff has changed up quite a bit in the last few weeks
and probably isn't backwards compatible.  While it might be nice to
develop against banshee 0.11.0, it'd suck to have to rewrite your
D-Bus code in a month or two for it to work with banshee 0.11.1.

I'm no pro at D-Bus, but I've written a few apps that connect to
Banshee and other software over D-Bus and it'd be just as easy to
connect to gnome-screensaver.  You'd probably have to consult with
Abock or Alp on exactly how to do this as I haven't worked at all with
the new managed D-Bus.  I wrote an app that connects to banshee over
D-Bus; you can see the classes I've used [1].  You can also peek at
the banshee remote player in the CVS tree that uses the managed D-Bus
[2].

Good luck, and poke me on IRC (trick) if you need any pointers (or
alpha testers!)

Cheers,

Patrick

[1]:
http://sting.vanstaveren.us/trunk/lirc-dbus-relayer/src/Interfaces/BansheeConnection.cs?view=co
[2]:
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/banshee/tools/BansheeDBusClient.cs

--
Patrick "Trick" van Staveren
http://trick.vanstaveren.us

Thanks for the links Patrick and thanks for the support Luke.  Since my
last email I have been scouring the net looking for samples of dbus
usage.  I have put some code together that I will try and put up
someplace.  (it won't be able to get it up to my subversion tree until
Monday my usb drive with the code on it is on my desk at work).  I will
put together a quick page on it too.

>From looking at your plugin Patrick it looks like I am heading in the
right direction.  The plugin is pretty simple I am just watching the
dbus for gnome-screensaver to generate one of two messages depending on
which one just pass a pause or play to banshee.  Would it be cleaner
just to us dbus (like in some of your code Patrick) to send the pause
and play commands to banshee?

I will have to take a look at cvs of banshee for the changes.  

I have just started using banshee to replace Rhythmbox kind of out of the blue but it is great. 

Thanks

--Joe