No "OnStartup" event in MM4 [#8482]

[markstuartwalker]

This has been removed in MM4. Why?

http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... ts_members

I would like Clear Now Playing to work but it seems to need this even to operate. (http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 35#p313935)

[jiri]

It was actually an error in documentation, this event hasn't ever existed.

If you need to do anything on startup, you probably could do so when the script is first called?

Jiri

[ZvezdanD]

I don't understand what you are talking about. How is that that this event hasn't ever existed? All my auto-scripts has OnStartup event handler which is executed on every start-up of the program - MM2, MM3 as well as MM4 (tried with many versions, even the latest build 1442). Actually, none of my auto-scripts could be used without that event since I am setting the menu items for the script's options and other initialization code during the start-up.

[Ludek]

Zvezdan, this works correctly for me with the latest build:

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Option Explicit

Dim UI  : Set UI = SDB.UI

Sub OnStartUp()
    Dim mnuTest

    Set mnuTest = SDB.UI.AddMenuItem(SDB.UI.Menu_Edit, 0, 0)
    mnuTest.Caption = SDB.Tools.RemapASCII("BLA BLA")
    mnuTest.OnClickFunc = "Test1"
    mnuTest.UseScript = Script.ScriptPath
End Sub

The "BLA BLA" is correctly added to Edit menu.

So what is wrong here?

[markstuartwalker]

OK, so everyone except Jiri seems to think that the Sub OnStartup() gets called in both MM3 and MM4

... and I've been back to my original test to find that it works fine. Doh!

So, are we just looking at a documentation problem?

[ZvezdanD]

So what is wrong here?

Please read my previous post again. That are my words exactly - there is nothing wrong there, OnStartup works fine in MM4 as it was before. However, wrong is jiri who removed a description of that event from wiki claiming that it has never existed.

[Peke]

It was error in documentation That needs to be fixed as like you pointed Zvezdan it works as it was always worked eg. executed on Auto-Script startup. it is not regular Event you can hook on like with OnPlay.

I explained this in http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=8482

NOTE: OnShutdown event also do not belong there. Documentation should be updated/fixed.

[ZvezdanD]

it is not regular Event you can hook on like with OnPlay.

I explained this in http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=8482

NOTE: OnShutdown event also do not belong there. Documentation should be updated/fixed.

Well, strictly speaking, you are right that OnStartup is not regular event since it cannot be registered with the Application object, but it should be mentioned there anyway. How do you expect that scripters learn for that event handler if you don't mention it in wiki?

OnShutdown event should belong there for sure since it could be registered as e.g. OnPlay, for example:
Script.RegisterEvent SDB, "OnShutdown", "ClearIniSection"

[jiri]

So, just to summarize:

- There really haven't ever existed OnStartup COM event.
- OnStartup procedure of a script (if exists) is automatically called on startup. Since it the old way of calling script procedures, it would make sense to deprecate it in the next version of MM and rather implement the COM event.

Jiri

[ZvezdanD]

OnStartup procedure of a script (if exists) is automatically called on startup. Since it the old way of calling script procedures, it would make sense to deprecate it in the next version of MM and rather implement the COM event.

Will you keep compatibility with the existing scripts after that implementation?

[jiri]

Definitely, at least for a limited time (of few year?) to allow update of scripts.

Jiri