[lordmozilla]

I've made a new player in XBMC and i'd like a little help finishing it off.

I'd like it so when I play a video with my new player, it hides the filelistings (like it does when playing with dvdplayer). I'm currently basing my player on ExternalPlayer which might not have been the best of ideas...

I believe I need to write a simple renderer, I'd like to change to a fixed colour background when playback initiates. But I'm having trouble finding the hooks etc...

Thanks for any help.

[spiff]

switch to fullscreen happens whenever we're playing video. so as long as your player returns it's playing video, we should switch. this should happen somewhere near PlayFile in application.cpp. then guiwindowfullscreen.cpp kicks in.

[lordmozilla]

switch to fullscreen happens whenever we're playing video. so as long as your player returns it's playing video, we should switch. this should happen somewhere near PlayFile in application.cpp. then guiwindowfullscreen.cpp kicks in.

Thanks alot for the response. g_renderManager.IsStarted() was returning false and so SwitchToFullScreen() was not being called.

However now, the SwitchToFullScreen() returns true, and my GUI hangs freezes (but doesn't go away as I'd like it to) and then when I press escape it comes back to how it was before.

[lordmozilla]

shameless bump - can anyone help?