Kill / suspend MP when Steam starts

[motey]

Option to kill MP when steam starts (maybe increases Gaming perfomance) (Add tip to link MP in Steam to get back to MP)

[motey]

Hatte halt gehofft, daß die MP-Api eine Methode anbietet um einen shutdown-Befehl auszulösen. Schaut aber nicht so aus, nachdem ich mich mal ein bischen durch den Code gewühlt habe.
Plan B war jetzt den Code von http://www.team-mediaportal.com/extensions/other/powerscheduler zu durchwühlen, weil das Plugin, wenn ich es recht in Erinnerung habe, anbietet MP zu schließen. Leider hab ich auf die schnelle den Quellcode nicht gefunden.

[motey]

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/shutdown-exit-mediaportal.119136/

[motey]

its so easy :)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/system.diagnostics.process.closemainwindow.aspx
used by MPextended for example:
https://github.com/MPExtended/MPExtended/blob/master/Services/MPExtended.Services.UserSessionService/UserSessionService.cs#L211

[motey]

I think a simple process will do it

[motey]

found this method in myEmulator2
http://myemulators2.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Launcher/Executor.cs:

/* The following code was referenced from the Moving Pictures plugin */

static void suspendMP(bool suspend)
    {
        if (suspend) //suspend and hide MediaPortal
        {
            Logger.LogDebug("Suspending MediaPortal...");
            // disable mediaportal input devices
            InputDevices.Stop();

            // hide mediaportal and suspend rendering to save resources for the pc game
            GUIGraphicsContext.BlankScreen = true;
            GUIGraphicsContext.form.Hide();
            GUIGraphicsContext.CurrentState = GUIGraphicsContext.State.SUSPENDING;
        }
        else //resume Mediaportal
        {
            Logger.LogDebug("Resuming MediaPortal...");

            InputDevices.Init();
            // Resume Mediaportal rendering
            GUIGraphicsContext.BlankScreen = false;
            GUIGraphicsContext.form.Show();
            GUIGraphicsContext.ResetLastActivity();
            GUIMessage msg = new GUIMessage(GUIMessage.MessageType.GUI_MSG_GETFOCUS, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, null);
            GUIWindowManager.SendThreadMessage(msg);
            GUIGraphicsContext.CurrentState = GUIGraphicsContext.State.RUNNING;
        }
    }

We could implement the Option to supsend MediaPortal instead of Killing it. looks very simple

[jensbuehl]

Just commited the suspend / resume. It works if you exit Steam but not if you choose "exit to desktop" -> in that case steam is still running in tray -> MP is not resumed!

I think we have to fix this or at least make it optional.

[jensbuehl]

Also did the configuration part yesterday. Just have to test it and will commit it somewhen this week...