[mythtv] Help Writing MythTV Plugin

Bincrawler bincrawler at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 4 15:06:39 EST 2005


you could during the  initialization procedure of the plugin fork a new
process.

BinCrawler.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Evan Klinger" <eklinger at uci.edu>
To: "Development of mythtv" <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:56 AM
Subject: [mythtv] Help Writing MythTV Plugin


> Good morning. I did not receive any reply to my MythTV plugin question,
> so I am resending it in hopes that someone who knows more about the
> internals of MythTV will be able to lend a helping hand.
>
> I am writing a MythUpdate module to periodically check for newer
> versions of MythTV and then download and install them. However, I cannot
> figure out how to make my plugin run in the background, as it does not
> have any UI. I've tried making my plugin inherit QThread and running it
> that way, I've tried putting the plugin to sleep() for the idle times
> between updates but alas nothing seems to work - my plugin always
> remains in the front of other plugins, or at least I cannot figure out
> how to bring back the main Myth menu. I'm currently running the plugin
> through mythfrontend by using "mythfrontend mythupdate." Any help would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you
> Evan Klinger
>


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