Accessing database items from plugins

by **badubo** on Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:45 am

Hello,

As many features in xlobby are driven by categories and databases, I think that the next improvement in the SDK should be a complete API for accessing items in databases.
- navigation (first, next, prev but also up and down if any)
- Add
- Remove
- modify (add/modify variable inside item)
- enumerate the list of variable and value
- set as the selected item (in category)
- get the selected item (in category)
Also beeing able to access to the list of databases and categories will be interresting.
Moreover, accessing items in databases should be possible without having a category associated with it.

Thanks

by **S Pittaway** on Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:39 am

I think this is really needed, at the moment if you want to do stuff all you can do is next/prev and it takes a while to run on large cats...

If we had this i could easily knock up a fast find in playlist plugin so i would not have to ask steven to do it

Also i cant beleive its a lot of work?

by **m_ski** on Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:41 am

+1 - these features would be very helpful. For some plugins I have to do editing of xml files directly and then force xlobby to refresh them which is rather clunky.

by **badubo** on Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:49 am

bump?

by **badubo** on Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:32 am

re-bump
This feature is essential for the creation of powerfull plugins

by **C-moi** on Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:52 am

by **ingalls** on Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:02 pm

lol
+1

by **lar282** on Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:22 pm

I would really like to see this too.

//Lasse

by **dgemily** on Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:16 am

I vote for this one too !

by **dalanik** on Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:50 am

Me to... (but then I'd have to rewrite my Skype plugin... hmmm, is this a good idea?)... joking, joking, YES, we need this!!!

D.

by **defrag** on Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:19 pm

+1 makes complete sense to have it