Opening a manual from a plug-in in Big Box

[Fry]

Hi there,

When in Big Box running most any theme, if you go a game details and select View Manual, it opens this PDF viewer embedded in Big Box where you can scroll up and down using your controller and close it with the back button.  I am trying to do the same from a plug-in running in Big Box.  I see there is an API for IGame.OpenManual: 

https://pluginapi.launchbox-app.com/html/ee870656-62a3-14af-b575-ac01a8e1d099.htm#!

When I call this, it launches a web browser outside of BigBox with the manual PDF loaded in it.  Is it possible for a plug-in to launch the manuals in that embedded PDF viewer to keep a more seamless experience?  

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

[Fry]

For this one, I was looking at working around it using a 3rd party library called PDFium. I’m wondering if there would be a better way to do it with whatever library that BigBox is using to display PDFs. Is big box using cefsharp to embed a browser window that shows the PDF manuals?  Any suggestion for a big box plugin that wants to embed a pdf reader into big box?

[eatkinola]

I had a working plugin prior to the .NET core migration of LaunchBox. I'm trying to get it working again; hopefully soon. It's in the Ao.Bigbox Customs download.

[Fry]

@eatkinola Is the source code for AoBigbox.Customs available?

Edited December 11, 2021 by Fry

[eatkinola]

It's not, but I should have time to work on it again soon, once I finish a work project with a dec 31 deadline.

[Fry]

I think I need to build my own PDF viewer. I wouldn’t be able to use the game manual viewer as is because it’s implemented as a big box game details menu item and my plugin builds its own game details menu and doesn’t show the standard one.