Re: [xine-devel] New Visualization Post Plugins

[Siggi L. <si...@us...>]

Hi Mike,

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Mike Melanson wrote:

> 	Now that I have seen goom in action, I have been working on a few
> new visualization post plugins. For starters, a basic oscilloscope, a
> basic FFT scope, and Synesthesia (3 of my favorites). A few questions:
>
> 1) Do I really need to put them each in a separate directory under
> src/post, like invert/ and goom/ ? They are just single files
> each. Can I combine them all into one directory?

Of course, you can.
Goom is big enough to rectify its own directory, and invert has probably
got its own directory just because it was the first of its kind.
I'd suggest one additional "visualization" (or "vis") directory for all of
the smaller ones.
You could even put them in the same plugin library...

> 2) It will be nice to be able to configure the plugins. Will I be able to
> do this through xine-ui?

Yes, as soon as we have decided the method used for registering config
entries.
Have a look at the thread labelled "[patch] plugin pre_init", there are
two possible implementations:
- a pre_init method that gets called at xine startup time
- a flag that forces the plugin to be initialized at xine startup

As you can see from the thread, Miguel and I are desparately looking for
someone to comment on this...

Cheers,

	Siggi