sending variables to plugin

by **badubo** on Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:00 pm

Hello Steven,

First of all thanks for enabling the use of arguments in plugin commands it will help me a lot

I have now a little question, I want to send a command to a plugin containing variables of xlobby (here, the channel and start time of the selected EPG item)

I tried : %epg>channel% %epg>time>%

But I receive them "as is" in the plugin, there are not expanded.
using them in a screen shows the requested information

How can I format these variables?

Also, do you have the list of variables we can reach ?

Note : I may be seen a little bug, it seems that epg variables are not accessibles if xlobby just generated the .dat (it works the second time we start xlobby

Thanks for all

by **badubo** on Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:58 pm

After some testing,it seems that I cannot send variables (using %XXX>XXX%) at all.... I can only send fixed arguments :cry:

I would like to be able to send varibles the same way as a os/file execute event. For exemple, %channels>ID% for selecting a channel

The interest of argument in command is to send dynamic information, No?

Do you intend to extend capabilities of the command method?

by **AtTheGates** on Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:44 pm

Bump

I'm having a similar problem. Have you found a solution?

by **badubo** on Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:26 pm

Any news for this topic?

by **stevenhanna6** on Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:03 pm

still havent worked on giving plugins access to the epg yet

by **badubo** on Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:09 pm

Hi Steven,

It is not related to the epg, but for accessingthe different data that we can access in a screen : for exemple a "music>parameter" like we can have in the os/execute command line.

You gave access to this in goto screen event, so I guess it is also possible for any other event type

Thanks for your help

by **Hiller** on Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:24 am

Did this ever get resolved? I would need access to movie variables so I can do Chad's plugin but as far as I can tell there is no way to get the title of the movie...

Steve

by **chadwolcott** on Thu Nov 11, 2004 5:52 pm

bump, bump, bump!!!

by **rika** on Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:13 am

And bump!

Rika

by **Hiller** on Mon Nov 29, 2004 2:29 pm

I'll bump on more time. I spoke with Steven about this but haven't really heard anything about any progress or if it is doable right now...

Steve