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Nuka1195
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no developer, but this could be useful.
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CrashX
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I am still trying to decide where the option will go on the GUI ? Any input plz ?
I see that Screensaver has it's own timer so I don't think merging it with the system one is a good idea ?
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Cool idea.
Even though screensaver has its own timer, i think system is probably the best place....It's gotta be either that or appearance I think, unless you split it up into multiple locations, since I suppose there's no reason it couldn't perform more than one of those things (ie, it could theoretically go to screen saver, update the library, and launch a python script all when its been idle for x amount of time.) Or it could just do one, or none of the above.
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+1 on this... When I run a python script with a sleep loop, xbmc locks up when I try to shutdown. This would be very helpful
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WiSo
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Just as a side note please handle the gui entries with care. Less is sometime more. IMO the best place would be the system tab.
As coding rule please don't spread system calls and hiding XBMC code all over the place if possible. Use util functions where applicable. Take CWIN32Util::XBMCShellExecute as an example. Use it or create you own. Linux/Mac might have similar functions.
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CrashX
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I will probably reuse the code that is in XBMC.AlarmClock().
It uses CUtil::ExecBuiltIn(const CStdString& execString) to excute it's action. As you probably noticed some of actions I listed as are alreay defined inside their .
Maybe instead of executing a script, I execute an action like XBMC.AlarmClock ? This action can be runscript as well ..
Again this code will be written as wrapper around existing funtionality and hence will work with all OS that xbmc supports.
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CrashX
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Added Patch for feature. Works in Linux and Windows, Looking for more tester before I submit a trac ?
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I'd love to have XBMC to automatically update my library every time it idles. Nice idea. I'm trying (and failing) to do the same in a script right now.
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Added new GUI Layout and Screenshot with patch to trac.
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Will this nice feature integrated in XBMC? Can't find it in Dharma 10.
