Newbie question - How to create a custom plugin using C#

[dotnetlcdhelp]

Hi, I have an application written in c sharp and need at certain times to output some info to a LCD. Is this possible using LCDSmartie and by writing a plugin? How do I call my code to write the text out from within my application?

Are there any c sharp examples? I am using .net 2.0

Thanks in advance.

[limbo]

Hi, I have an application written in c sharp and need at certain times to output some info to a LCD. Is this possible using LCDSmartie and by writing a plugin? How do I call my code to write the text out from within my application?

Are there any c sharp examples? I am using .net 2.0

Thanks in advance.

Since you're an experienced to .net (visual studio) this is the most simplest thing!

C# plugins are supported by LCD Smartie:
http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/plugins.html
http://sourceforge.net/project/download ... plugin.zip
If you need extra help feel free to add a post here.

[dotnetlcdhelp]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Is there any documentation on how and what I need to put into the "actions" tab within LCDSmartie in order for my code to get called?

and how would I specifically make a call from my application to produce a message on the LCD display?

Thanks

[dotnetlcdhelp]

I understand I can build a c# plugin, add it to the plugins directory and add this to a line in LCDSmartie:

$dll(csharpplugin.dll,1,"hello","paul")

but how can I trigger a message to be displayed from my custom windows application written in c#?

I basically want to query a database and display a string returned from the database.

Thanks

[limbo]

From my point of view there are several ways to achieve this.
One of them is to create a plugin like my warnifplugin.

In this case you can code your plugin to check if there is a value available from your application and dislpay it otherwise a parameter on plugin should me used to return any other LCD Smartie data (e.g. computer name)


Another way is to make this plugin to return an integer (or any other type of value) in case of data available and put this function to actions pane of LCD Smartie.
In this case you can use one function to display the data and another function to check and enable-disable the screen. This is quite good solution in order to enable the screen only whe you really need it.