Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee Plugin creation

[Patrick van Staveren <trick vanstaveren us>]

Joe,

Actually, if you're writing a regular Banshee plugin, you don't need  
to use D-Bus to control banshee playback.  Just use D-Bus to listen to  
gnome-screensaver.

From a plugin, just call PlayerEngineCore.Pause() - check out the  
monodoc reference for various PlayerEngineCore commands and what you  
can do.  Those execute directly - no D-Bus magic needed :)

Cheers,

Patrick

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


----- Message from bigjoe1008 gmail com ---------
    Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 00:47:04 -0400
    From: Joe Harnish <bigjoe1008 gmail com>
Reply-To: banshee-list gnome org
 Subject: Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee Plugin creation
      To: banshee-list gnome org


> 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


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