Populate the EventGhost wiki with useful articles

[jinxdone]

Hi!

I have noticed that the same questions seem to pop up on the forum over and over again. For example right now the hot topic seems to be the problematic MCE remotes. (just look at the general support forum topics at a quick glance).

So, what about we (the users who know something about a given subject, own a specific kind of hardware etc.) try to fill the wiki with some useful information so that the newer users could read up on before they start asking all sorts of things on the forum.

We need atleast good tutorial/guides on these subjects:

• MCE remote FAQ and HOW-TO
• Keyboard plugin FAQ (how it works, how to block keypress from going to another application for example).
• Generic HID plugin FAQ
• Finding windows and sending keypresses
• Finding window controls (using winspector?) and sending windows messages for more advanced users.
• Serial port HOW-TO
• IRDecoder FAQ (why the events are showing up as Unknown.*)
• Switching parts of the config with the 'enable exclusive' action, this is what everybody wants to do but it still seems to puzzle some people.
• Some more real-world configuration examples
• Triggering eventghost actions from python scripts and passing variables between them using the eg.payload variable.
• In general how to pass variables and use enabled/disabled states and do conditional jumps so that you can build more complex configurations.
• Examples and templates of useful python scripts. For example a simple ( and well commented!), TCP/IP sender/receiver plugin template that you can easily modify for your purposes.
• Regexp examples (regexp is always useful )
• EventGhost specific wxwindows examples, hints and notes for scripters, it's such a mess to get to grips with if you have not used it before..
• Using dll:s from python scripts. Useful for setting and getting system-wide windows parameters for example.

This is just some of the things from the top of my list that would probably be useful for lots of people. Anybody have time and/or interest to write any of them?

-jinxdone

[manjh]

is there a list of variables that I can use in plugins, e.g. in file operations?
Sofar I have found eg.result, but I'd like to know more!

[stottle]

I'm not sure I understand the question. Within your plugin (i.e., you aren't trying to pass info to EG's core or other plugins), you can create any variables you want (or import whatever you want). If you want to communicate outside your plugin and EG's events (including payload) won't work, it gets much more complicated. What are you trying to do?

Brett

[krambriw]

Look in core.py, there you find it

Best regards, Walter

[eli2k]

Hi!

I have noticed that the same questions seem to pop up on the forum over and over again. For example right now the hot topic seems to be the problematic MCE remotes. (just look at the general support forum topics at a quick glance).

So, what about we (the users who know something about a given subject, own a specific kind of hardware etc.) try to fill the wiki with some useful information so that the newer users could read up on before they start asking all sorts of things on the forum.

-jinxdone

I agree, it's a great idea. We can even post a FAQ in the forums, with a post for each general question. The concept behind Macros/Events/Actions/Plugins in EventGhost is pretty simple, but it takes a little bit of time to actually figure out how it works. I read the only useable guide on the Wiki, but still didn't get it, until I took an hour to do some trial and error with EventGhost before understanding how I can make it do what I want it to.

[zian]

I agree, it's a great idea.

Me Too.

[manjh]

Look in core.py, there you find it

Best regards, Walter

Silly question perhaps, but where do I find core.py? I've got lots of py files in the installation file, but no core-py!

[Prinz]

Silly question perhaps, but where do I find core.py?

It should be here:
EventGhostDirectory\eg\Core.py


Regards
Prinz

[nosignal]

I have been able to add the following 3 pages to the Wiki:

MCE_Remote_FAQ - How to Use a Windows Media Center Edition IR Remote
MCE Remote Drivers for Windows XP - How to install a MCE Remote on Windows XP, even if it does not come with XP drivers (e.g. the Philips SRM5100).
MCE_Remote_Bruno - A more advanced alternative (unnecessary for 90% or users) is to use MCE Replacement Drivers by Bruno FLEURETTE or 'and-81'.

I went to for 3 separate pages for a number of reasons:
[*]I wanted to somewhat retain the original material, but extend it.
[*]There have been quite a few techniques over the years, most of which can still be useful to some people, so I wanted to include them all without confusing the issue.
[*]The wiki has a page length limit which meant it could not all go on one page