Display plugin data in main window.

andresv · December 11th, 2007, 04:57 AM

I have couple of questions on plugin capabilities.

I have little hardware that measures inside and outside temperature. Now I'm wondering is it possible to display these temperature readings in nearby time and date. And that they will be always visible as time and date is.

Second question - is it possible to display that same information on LCD using existing VFD plugin.

David · December 11th, 2007, 10:46 AM

do not currently have the ability for you to output to the VFD, I can look into this later...

you can create a plugin with a form that always shows, and is set to TopMost possibly and make it always show on top the application...

david

kmp14 · December 21st, 2007, 04:05 PM

I have the same question about a plugin always being visible. I tried TopMost, and that did not work. How do I specify that the form "always shows"? thanks.

David · December 21st, 2007, 04:48 PM

if you set the Visible in the pluginInit and set it to TopMost... Change visible and do not use ShowDialog, because that will not show ontop of the navigation screen...

what is it doing?

david

kmp14 · December 27th, 2007, 10:08 AM

Sorry for the delay in responding. I do set the plugin to Visible = true in the pluginInit, and set the Form to TopMost, but it does not show unless I add a button for the plugin and click it. I am not using ShowDialog. Any other tips would be appreciated!

kmp14 · December 28th, 2007, 06:33 PM

Got it to work. I did not need to set the Form to TopMost. What I did was set the visible = true in the pluginInit, AND added an event handler for the visibleChanged event:

Code:

//in CF_pluginInit()
this.Visible = true;
this.VisibleChanged+= new EventHandler(heading_VisibleChanged)

//add method
private void heading_VisibleChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
     this.Visible = true;
}

This makes sure the plugin is always visible, even when CF automatically hides it. Also, you do not need to create a button for when doing this. It will automatically start and show when CF starts. If you don't want it to start automatically, remove the this.Visible = true; in the CF_pluginInit() and add a button. (haven't tried this, think it would work).

Ken