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DigiGuide Markers
Although markers written using these techniques will still work, DigiGuide Markers 2.0 + Script should be used instead as it is a far superior and comprehensive system.
DigiGuide Markers provide an extensible, JavaScript driven, method of highlighting programmes from within DigiGuide.
Markers are scripts written using a combination of XML and JavaScript. An Individual .dgmarker file can contain many Markers.
How does it work
When DigiGuide starts up it looks for files ending in.dgmarker.
If it finds any it will then attempt to load them as XML files. We use XML because it allows us to describe the contents fairly easily.
One of the sections of the XML contains JavaScript code with named functions. DigiGuide will call these named functions when the user performs certain activities such as right-clicking on a programme.
The details
The following sections give some details...- XML file layout and content
- Named functions called by DigiGuide
- DigiGuide API available to marker scripts
- A simple example to use as a starting point - A simple and fully working marker as a starting point.
- Standard markers - Highlighted copy of the standard markers that ship with DigiGuide at time of writing.
