Added a hint to PLUGINS.html about how to name a plugin that implements a skin

2 files changed, 26 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 721aa417..07d5459b 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -2812,3 +2812,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   for reporting this one).
 - Fixed some issues with gcc 3.4 (thanks to Prakash K. Cheemplavam and Marcel
   Wiesweg).
+- Added a hint to PLUGINS.html about how to name a plugin that implements a skin.
diff --git a/PLUGINS.html b/PLUGINS.html
index a2cfe9b3..cfd28d12 100644
--- a/PLUGINS.html
+++ b/PLUGINS.html
@@ -14,15 +14,18 @@ Copyright &copy; 2004 Klaus Schmidinger<br>
 <a href="http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr">www.cadsoft.de/vdr</a>
 </center>
 <p>
-<!--X1.2.6--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#00AA00>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.2.6--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#0000AA>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
 Important modifications introduced in version 1.2.6 are marked like this.
 <!--X1.2.6--></td></tr></table>
-<!--X1.3.0--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#AA0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.3.0--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#00AA00>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
 Important modifications introduced in version 1.3.0 are marked like this.
 <!--X1.3.0--></td></tr></table>
-<!--X1.3.7--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#FF0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.3.7--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#AA0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
 Important modifications introduced in version 1.3.7 are marked like this.
 <!--X1.3.7--></td></tr></table>
+<!--X1.3.8--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#FF0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+Important modifications introduced in version 1.3.8 are marked like this.
+<!--X1.3.8--></td></tr></table>
 <p>
 VDR provides an easy to use plugin interface that allows additional functionality
 to be added to the program by implementing a dynamically loadable library file.
@@ -70,11 +73,11 @@ structures and allows it to hook itself into specific areas to perform special a
 <li><a href="#Status monitor">Status monitor</a>
 <li><a href="#Players">Players</a>
 <li><a href="#Receivers">Receivers</a>
-<!--X1.3.0--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#AA0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.3.0--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#00AA00>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
 <li><a href="#Filters">Filters</a>
 <!--X1.3.0--></td></tr></table>
 <li><a href="#The On Screen Display">The On Screen Display</a>
-<!--X1.3.7--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#FF0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.3.7--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#AA0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
 <li><a href="#Skins">Skins</a>
 <li><a href="#Themes">Themes</a>
 <!--X1.3.7--></td></tr></table>
@@ -1214,7 +1217,7 @@ Mode</i>).
 If the <tt>cReceiver</tt> isn't needed any more, it may simply be <i>deleted</i>
 and will automatically detach itself from the <tt>cDevice</tt>.
 
-<!--X1.3.0--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#AA0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.3.0--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#00AA00>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
 <a name="Filters"><hr><h2>Filters</h2>
 
 <center><i><b>A Fistful of Datas</b></i></center><p>
@@ -1260,7 +1263,7 @@ and will automatically detach itself from the <tt>cDevice</tt>.
 See VDR/eit.c or VDR/pat.c to learn how to process filter data.
 <!--X1.3.0--></td></tr></table>
 
-<!--X1.3.7--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#FF0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.3.7--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#AA0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
 <a name="The On Screen Display"><hr><h2>The On Screen Display</h2>
 
 <center><i><b>Window to the world</b></i></center><p>
@@ -1371,6 +1374,18 @@ new cMySkin;
 
 in the <a href="#Getting started"><tt>Start()</tt></a> function of your plugin.
 Do not delete this object, it will be automatically deleted when the program ends.
+<p>
+<!--X1.3.8--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#FF0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+In order to be able to easily identify plugins that implement a skin it is recommended
+that the name of such a plugin should be
+
+<p><table><tr><td bgcolor=#F0F0F0><pre>
+skinxyz
+</pre></td></tr></table><p>
+
+where <tt>xyz</tt> is the actual name of the skin.
+
+<!--X1.3.8--></td></tr></table>
 
 <a name="Themes"><hr><h2>Themes</h2>
 
@@ -1512,7 +1527,7 @@ The functions to implement replaying capabilites are
 virtual bool HasDecoder(void) const;
 virtual bool CanReplay(void) const;
 virtual bool SetPlayMode(ePlayMode PlayMode);
-<!--X1.2.6--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#00AA00>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.2.6--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#0000AA>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
 virtual int64_t GetSTC(void);
 <!--X1.2.6--></td></tr></table>
 virtual void TrickSpeed(int Speed);
@@ -1534,7 +1549,7 @@ virtual void SetVideoFormat(bool VideoFormat16_9);
 virtual void SetVolumeDevice(int Volume);
 </pre></td></tr></table><p>
 
-<!--X1.3.0--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#AA0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.3.0--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#00AA00>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
 <p>
 <b>Section Filtering</b>
 <p>
@@ -1564,7 +1579,7 @@ handle section data.
 <p>
 <b>On Screen Display</b>
 <p>
-<!--X1.3.7--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#FF0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
+<!--X1.3.7--><table width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=#AA0000>&nbsp;</td><td width=100%>
 If your device provides On Screen Display (OSD) capabilities (which every device
 that is supposed to be used as a primary device should do), it shall implement
 an "OSD provider" class, derived from <tt>cOsdProvider</tt>, which, when its <tt>CreateOsd()</tt>