Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Plugin Activation/Deactivation

["Nicholas S. Clarkson" <nclarkson sporadicspeculations com>]

This does work but only for restoring the state. You would still have to
save the state manually.


On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 11:05 -0800, Adam Zimmerman wrote:
> > > On Dec 26, 2007 12:24 PM, Nicholas S. Clarkson
> > > <nclarkson sporadicspeculations com> wrote:
> > >                I am writing a Rhythmbox plugin to save and restore the
> > >         playing song. I
> > >         have got my plugin to work through a menu option but I would
> > >         rather it
> > >         work on load and close. However, it appears that the db and
> > >         play
> > >         functions I am trying to use are not available to my plugin at
> > >         activation/deactivation. Is there a way to adjust the time at
> > >         which my
> > >         plugin is activate/deactivated so that the necessary functions
> > >         are
> > >         available?
> > > 
> > > Nice plugin idea. Would it be too much to ask you to post the source
> > > for your plugin? I don't have a ready answer to your question, but I'm
> > > wondering if we might be able to figure something clever out.
> > > 
> > > Off the top of my head, I'm wondering if we move the code from
> > > activate() to a new function if that'd make a difference.
> 
> A rather horrible approach would be to set a timeout in the activate()
> function for long enough that rhythmbox is *likely* to be ready... You'd
> have to catch an exception in the case that it wasn't ready (and
> presumably continue the timer instead of stopping it).
> 
> If that's the approach you want to take, look at the gobject.timeout_add
> function. It's called like:
> 
> gobject.timeout_add(6 * 60 * 60 * 1000, self.__update_catalogue)
> 
> with the first argument being the number of milliseconds to wait, and
> the second being the function to call. If the function returns False
> then the timeout is discarded. If it returns anything else, then the
> timeout function is called again in another n milliseconds.
> 
> Like I said, it's probably not a very "clean" way to do it, but it would
> likely work.
> 
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