[Basje]

Is there any possibility to show the XBMC Busy Dialog from a script?

It would be nice to freeze the UI for a moment while some background tasks are performed?

[giftie]

Is there any possibility to show the XBMC Busy Dialog from a script?

It would be nice to freeze the UI for a moment while some background tasks are performed?

To turn it on -

Code:

xbmc.executebuiltin( "ActivateWindow(busydialog)" )

To turn it off -

Code:

xbmc.executebuiltin( "Dialog.Close(busydialog)" )

[Basje]

To turn it on -

Code:

xbmc.executebuiltin( "ActivateWindow(busydialog)" )

To turn it off -

Code:

xbmc.executebuiltin( "Dialog.Close(busydialog)" )

Thanks! It worked like a charm.

[ppic]

you have the builtin :

lock(...)
lock() -- Lock the gui until xbmcgui.unlock() is called.

*Note, This will improve performance when doing a lot of gui manipulation at once.
The main program (xbmc itself) will freeze until xbmcgui.unlock() is called.

example:
- xbmcgui.lock()

[Basje]

Well, I am almost there. I still have this issue:

I add context menu items to my Video Add-on items with these commands:
XBMC.RunPlugin() or XBMC.RunScript() and call the Video Add-on to do some stuff (download/mark).

When I select those items they start correctly but at the same time XBMC refreshes the listing of the Video Add-on and thus the Add-on is running twice at the same time, giving me all kind of locking issues (in logfile, databases).

Is there a way to force XBMC to wait for the XBMC.RunPlugin() to finish before doing anything else?