2009-01-10, 21:18
kricker Wrote:Ok, so your English is a bit rough. Still you say the plugin in "useless", and it isn't. I use it in windows to launch firefox in fullscreen mode, switch to SageTV, and a few other apps. So no it isn't useless. Maybe for you trying to switch to a game it doesn't work, but that hardly makes the plugin useless. You are just having an issue with it.
At one time there was a way to allow XBMC to minimize when launcher launched another application. Since it's been working fine for me I've lost track if this is still possible. You may want to look into that and ask nicely for some help. Most devs here are quite nice if approached properly about an issue. I understand you may have made some posts already (I haven't looked for them). If the devs haven't responded maybe they haven't seen it, or they are just too bust at the moment dealing with what they feel are more important issues. I do know the external player launcher patch has been added to SVN, and most players people are using are DirectX based. If someone can get a Directshow based player working fine with XBMC, then a DirectX game should work as well.
Kriker Thanks, but I have not said anything about the programmers and I have no complaints about care. I simply was responding to a question from another user, the plugin (for now) is limited in its use with Windows, that's all and I assume so. I hope that it can be fixed soon; i'm not sure about if it's a problem on XBMC code or this plugin...
regards, and sorry again if i sound rough