Talk:ExternalAPI

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Exception

A "libvcl_exception * libvlc_exception_create(void)" function should be great. Actualy, the API let use an opaque exception structure but you need to know the structure size anyway !

Vout

toggle_fullscreen() is useless from an embedder point of view: if I am writing an application, I need to set the movie fullscreen or not. Which makes me think that the same reasoning should apply to audio_mute: we should rather have set_mute/get_mute: the status of mute is of interest for an application developer.

Zorglub Yes. I was thinking about actually putting both options for simplicity.

OlivierAubert Both options can be a little redundant, but it does not cost much anyway.

Playlist

Zorglub I don't really know how to handle playlist retrieval as VLC playlist is not a simple list ...

OlivierAubert Yes, but it is a needed functionality anyway. We can defined a flattened view of the playlist, which will not exactly map to the playlist but be a reasonable view.

VLM

Dionoea Something like libvlc_vlm_cmd( libvlc_instance *, char *cmd, libvlc_exception ) could be usefull. This would let the enduser do whatever he wants with vlm easily.

autogeneration?

I have been cutting and pasting out of this page into my code, and a number of the function names and arguments are slightly wrong. I have corrected a few. Is there a way to autogenerate *just* these API calls out of the sources? Davidlallen 22:57, 20 August 2007 (CEST)

It is possible to have a look to the doxygen autogenerated documentation to have up-to-date names extracted from the source code. Copy as text the first part (summary docs), paste into a file, then apply a grep -v '^ ' on this file and you will have a quite good listing of its API. Here is a fast (not perfect) generation. --Thannoy 11:29, 1 March 2008 (CET)