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Added a section about "Logging" to PLUGINS.html

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Klaus Schmidinger 2008-01-13 14:48:15 +01:00
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CONTRIBUTORS
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@ -2239,6 +2239,7 @@ Elias Luttinen <el@iki.fi>
Torsten Kunkel <vdrml@tkunkel.de>
for pointing out that it was not obvious how to initiate internationalization
support for a plugin
for suggesting to add a section about "Logging" to PLUGINS.html
Michael Nival <mnival@club-internet.fr>
for translating OSD texts to the French language

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HISTORY
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@ -5560,3 +5560,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
See PLUGINS/src/pictures/README for details.
- The automatic shutdown is now suppressed if the remote control is currently
disabled (suggested by Helmut Auer, implemented by Udo Richter).
- Added a section about "Logging" to PLUGINS.html (suggested by Torsten Kunkel).

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@ -14,18 +14,18 @@ Copyright &copy; 2006 Klaus Schmidinger<br>
<a href="http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr">www.cadsoft.de/vdr</a>
</center>
<p>
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Important modifications introduced in version 1.5.3 are marked like this.
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Important modifications introduced in version 1.5.7 are marked like this.
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Important modifications introduced in version 1.5.8 are marked like this.
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Important modifications introduced in version 1.5.10 are marked like this.
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Important modifications introduced in version 1.5.13 are marked like this.
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<p>
VDR provides an easy to use plugin interface that allows additional functionality
to be added to the program by implementing a dynamically loadable library file.
@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ structures and allows it to hook itself into specific areas to perform special a
<li><a href="#Command line help">Command line help</a>
<li><a href="#Getting started">Getting started</a>
<li><a href="#Shutting down">Shutting down</a>
<!--X1.5.13--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#FF0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
<li><a href="#Logging">Logging</a>
<!--X1.5.13--></td></tr></table>
<li><a href="#Main menu entry">Main menu entry</a>
<li><a href="#User interaction">User interaction</a>
<li><a href="#Housekeeping">Housekeeping</a>
@ -540,6 +543,26 @@ The <tt>Stop()</tt> function will only be called if a previous call to the
returned <i>true</i>. The <tt>Stop()</tt> functions are called in the reverse order
as the <a href="#Getting started"><tt>Start()</tt></a> functions were called.
<!--X1.5.13--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#FF0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
<a name="Logging"><hr><h2>Logging</h2>
If the plugin should print log messages, you can use <tt>dsyslog()</tt>, <tt>isyslog()</tt> or <tt>esyslog()</tt>.<br>
<ul>
<li><tt>dsyslog()</tt> prints the log message only if the log level of vdr is set to 3.
<li><tt>isyslog()</tt> prints the log message only if the log level of vdr is set to 2 or above.
<li><tt>esyslog()</tt> prints the log message only if the log level of vdr is set to 1 or above.
</ul>
The output of this log is the syslog of the system vdr is running on.
The logmessage can be formatted like <tt>printf()</tt>, as in
<p><table><tr><td bgcolor=#F0F0F0><pre>
esyslog("pluginname: error #%d has occurred", ErrorNumber);
</pre></td></tr></table><p>
Note that the log messages will be given as provided, the plugin's name will not
automatically be added, so make shure your log messages are obvious enough.
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<a name="Main menu entry"><hr><h2>Main menu entry</h2>
<center><i><b>Today's special is...</b></i></center><p>
@ -906,7 +929,7 @@ const char *MyConfigDir = cPlugin::ConfigDirectory();
<center><i><b>Welcome to Babylon!</b></i></center><p>
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If a plugin displays texts to the user, it should prepare for internationalization
of these texts. All that is necessary for this is to mark every text that is
presented to the user as translatable, as in
@ -917,7 +940,7 @@ const char *s = tr("Hello world!");
The text given here must be the English version, and the returned pointer is either
a translated version (if available) or the original string.
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Texts are searched for in the domain registered for this plugin.
If a plugin wants to make use of texts defined by the core VDR code, it can use
the special <tt>trVDR()</tt> macro to mark these texts without having them
@ -940,7 +963,6 @@ for (int i = 0; i &lt; 3; i++)
</pre></td></tr></table><p>
<p>
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The system VDR is running on may use a character encoding where a single character
(or <i>symbol</i>) consists of more than one byte (UTF-8, as opposed to, for instance,
ISO8859-1, where every character is represented by a single byte in memory).
@ -951,7 +973,6 @@ character set. The names of these functions and macros are all of the form <tt>U
and are defined in <tt>VDR/tools.h</tt>.
Most of the time a plugin doesn't need to care about this, but when it comes to
handling individual characters these functions may come in handy.
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<a name="Custom services"><hr><h2>Custom services</h2>
@ -1328,7 +1349,7 @@ A player that has special requirements about audio tracks should announce its
available audio tracks by calling
<p><table><tr><td bgcolor=#F0F0F0><pre>
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bool DeviceSetAvailableTrack(eTrackType Type, int Index, uint16_t Id, const char *Language = NULL, const char *Description = NULL)
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</pre></td></tr></table><p>
@ -1456,13 +1477,13 @@ public:
};
cMyReceiver::cMyReceiver(int Pid)
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:cReceiver(tChannelID(), -1, Pid)
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{
}
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cMyReceiver::~cMyReceiver()
{
cReceiver::Detach();
@ -1614,7 +1635,6 @@ with the full required resolution. Only if this fails shall it use alternate
areas. Drawing areas are always rectangular and may not overlap (but do not need
to be adjacent).
<p>
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Special consideration may have to be given to color usage if the OSD provides
8bpp (256 colors). In that case, fonts may be drawn using <i>anti-aliasing</i>,
which requires several blended color values between the foreground and background
@ -1628,7 +1648,6 @@ osd-&gt;SetAntiAliasGranularity();
which allows the system to evenly distribute the palette entries to the various
color combinations (see <tt>VDR/osd.h</tt> for details).
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<p>
Directly accessing the OSD is only allowed from the foreground thread, which
restricts this to a <tt>cOsdObject</tt> returned from the plugin's <tt>MainMenuAction()</tt>
@ -1832,7 +1851,7 @@ virtual bool HasDecoder(void) const;
virtual bool CanReplay(void) const;
virtual bool SetPlayMode(ePlayMode PlayMode);
virtual int64_t GetSTC(void);
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virtual bool HasIBPTrickSpeed(void);
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virtual void TrickSpeed(int Speed);
@ -1862,7 +1881,7 @@ the functions
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virtual int OpenFilter(u_short Pid, u_char Tid, u_char Mask);
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virtual void CloseFilter(int Handle);
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</pre></td></tr></table><p>