Craig McLean wrote: > Hello. > > I'm just learning my way around Freevo plugin development. I've been using > the Headlines plugin as an example. However I have a few questions. > > In the PluginInterface class there is a method called config. This method > is basically used to populate the HEADLINES_LOCATIONS variable only if the > plugin is started somewhere other then local_config.py. Am I right?
The variables from config are variables the plugin needs. A user may redefine the variables in local_conf.py, but this functions makes sure, the variables are set. > Also in the items method of the PluginInterface class I don't quite > understand what the > > menu_items = skin.settings.mainmenu.items > > related stuff does. I think it is looking into the skin stuff to see if > this plugin has some icons defined, and if it does it lets the menu item > know about it. Once again am I right. Yes. The skin may have a text, icons etc. > Is there more documentation around then just the source code and the plugin > writing guide that is in the Docs directory? There is a plugin writing howto in the docs dir. It's not finished, but maybe it helps. Dischi -- A seminar on time travel will be held in two weeks ago. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
