To be more clear. A bit of delay is no problem but if you start to exceed
couple of seconds it's starting to matter.
Just use common sense on when a delay is too long and blocking the app.
On 30 Oct 2015 17:30, "Scotty Roscoe" <scottyrosco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does this mean that xbmc.sleep() should never be used in an addon or just
> form that's shown in the previous email?
>
> I've been using it to get around a subtitle issue in pre-Helix versions of
> Kodi, where a bit of delay is needed.
>
> Thanks
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 30, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Martijn Kaijser <mart...@xbmc.org> wrote:
>
>
> We just want to bring to attention, that xbmc.sleep is hurting Kodi right
> now, when a user tires to shut down.
> It would be really appreciated if each of you can have a look and make
> sure your addon/s are not using it any more.
> The bad code we're looking for looks like this:
> import time
> import xbmc
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> while not xbmc.abortRequested:
> # some code
> xbmc.log("hello addon! %s" % time.time(), level=xbmc.LOGDEBUG)
> xbmc.sleep(500)
>
> the way you should do it is this:
> import time
> import xbmc
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> monitor = xbmc.Monitor()
>
> while not monitor.abortRequested():
> # Sleep/wait for abort for 10 seconds
> if monitor.waitForAbort(10):
> # Abort was requested while waiting. We should exit
> break
> xbmc.log("hello addon! %s" % time.time(), level=xbmc.LOGDEBUG)
>
> You can find more documentation here:
> http://kodi.wiki/view/Service_add-ons
> If you have any questions, please let us know.
> Cheers,
> Razzeee / Team Kodi
> (this e-mail was send on behalf of Razzeee)
>
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