[kzeleny]

I have a screensaver addon that I am working on and have come across a situation where there is another addon (xSqueeze) that is using an external player, XMBC doesn't seem to know that it is playing and activates the screen saver. I check xmbc.player().isPlaying but that returns false.

does anyone know of a way to check if another addon is running from within a python script?

(I have a workaround that checks for the existence of a file that is created when the xsqueez starts and deleted when it stops but that is kind of a hack at best)

Thanks!

[Karnagious]

I cant see the code anywhere, so maybe ask Bossanova88 to add a property to window 10000?

[kzeleny]

That could work, he already told me about a file he creates on startup and deletes on exit and that is working ok.

What I really am looking for is a more generic way to test for another addon that is not necessarily addon specific and that I dont have to rely on the addon dev to modify his code.

Thanks!

[Karnagious]

What would happen if you called the script again? Would it throw an error that you could catch?