Now Playing for Playnite

This extension provides a way for a user to return to their game (similarly to BackToGame) as well as close their current game directly from Playnite

Why use this over BackToGame

You can actually use both! But this extension does 2 main things a little better than BackToGame:

1. Finding the game process is a little more robust in my implementation as my process finder uses a variety of heuristics to find the correct game process such as:
   1. Fuzzy matching the Window's title to the Game entry
   2. Checking oif the process path matches the game's install directory (32-bit processes only due to Playnite limitations)
   3. Checking if the process name is the same as any executable inside the game's install directory (32 and 64-bit processes)
   4. Ranking multiple process matches based on system resource usage and the strength of the heuristic matches
2. You can exit your game directly from the NowPlaying window so any games that do not have good exiting functionality via a controller can still be exited easily

Supported Themes

See here

Usage for theme Developers

Minimal Usage

This will produce a button that only shows up if:

1. The extension is installed and
2. There is a game running

This is considered the bare minimum implementation

<ButtonEx Command="{PluginSettings Plugin=NowPlaying, Path=OpenDialog}">
  <ButtonEx.Style>
    <Style TargetType="ButtonEx"
        BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type Button}}">
      <Setter Property="Visibility"
          Value="Visible"/>
      <Style.Triggers>
        <DataTrigger Binding="{PluginStatus Plugin=NowPlaying_db4e7ade-57fb-426c-8392-60e2347a0209, Status=Installed}"
              	Value="False">
          <Setter Property="Visibility"
              Value="Collapsed"/>
        </DataTrigger>
        <DataTrigger Binding="{PluginSettings Plugin=NowPlaying, Path=IsGameRunning}"
              	Value="False">
          <Setter Property="Visibility"
              Value="Collapsed"/>
        </DataTrigger>
      </Style.Triggers>
    </Style>
  </ButtonEx.Style>
  <TextBox Text="Now Playing" />
</ButtonEx>

Advanced usage

In addition to opening a window to control the process, the extension exposes the icon and title of the game. This button will show the currently running games's Icon and Title so encourage users to have their library's icons set.

<ButtonEx Command="{PluginSettings Plugin=NowPlaying, Path=OpenDialog}">
  <ButtonEx.Style>
    <Style TargetType="ButtonEx"
        BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type Button}}">
      <Setter Property="Visibility"
          Value="Visible"/>
      <Style.Triggers>
        <DataTrigger Binding="{PluginStatus Plugin=NowPlaying_db4e7ade-57fb-426c-8392-60e2347a0209, Status=Installed}"
              	Value="False">
          <Setter Property="Visibility"
              Value="Collapsed"/>
        </DataTrigger>
        <DataTrigger Binding="{PluginSettings Plugin=NowPlaying, Path=IsGameRunning}"
              	Value="False">
          <Setter Property="Visibility"
              Value="Collapsed"/>
        </DataTrigger>
      </Style.Triggers>
    </Style>
  </ButtonEx.Style>
  <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
    <Image Width="40"
        Height="40"
        Style="{DynamicResource NowPlayingImageStyle}"
        Source="{PluginSettings Plugin=NowPlaying, Path=RunningGame.IconPath}"/>
    <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
      <TextBlock x:Name="NowPlaying_Title"
            Style="{DynamicResource NowPlayingTitleStyle}"
            Text="NOW PLAYING"/>
      <TextBlock x:Name="NowPlaying_Game"
            Style="{DynamicResource NowPlayingGameStyle}"
            Text="{PluginSettings Plugin=NowPlaying, Path=RunningGame.GameName}"/>
    </StackPanel>
  </StackPanel>
</ButtonEx>

Directly Exiting or Resuming a Game

The Commands ReturnToGame and CloseGame will let you directly resume or exit a game. If you place them inside GameDetails.xaml you can control visibility with Game.IsRunning to only show controls for a running game

<ButtonEx Command="{PluginSettings Plugin=NowPlaying, Path=ReturnToGame}">
  <ButtonEx.Style>
    <Style TargetType="ButtonEx"
            BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type Button}}">
      <Setter Property="Visibility"
              Value="Visible"/>
      <Style.Triggers>
        <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding Game.IsRunning}"
                      Value="False">
          <Setter Property="Visibility"
                  Value="Collapsed"/>
        </DataTrigger>
      </Style.Triggers>
    </Style>
  </ButtonEx.Style>
  Return to Game
</ButtonEx>
<ButtonEx Command="{PluginSettings Plugin=NowPlaying, Path=CloseGame}">
  <ButtonEx.Style>
    <Style TargetType="ButtonEx"
            BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type Button}}">
      <Setter Property="Visibility"
              Value="Visible"/>
      <Style.Triggers>
        <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding Game.IsRunning}"
                      Value="False">
          <Setter Property="Visibility"
                  Value="Collapsed"/>
        </DataTrigger>
      </Style.Triggers>
    </Style>
  </ButtonEx.Style>
  Exit
</ButtonEx>

Custom Now Playing Dialog

Instead of binding to OpenDialog, bind to OpenCustomDialog and add this style to your theme. You will have to implement all the buttons yourself using the bindings below.

<Style x:Key="NowPlayingWindowStyle" TargetType="ContentControl">
  <Setter Property="Template">
    <Setter.Value>
      <ControlTemplate TargetType="ContentControl">
          <Grid>
              <Border
                  Width="{WindowWidth}"
                  Height="{WindowHeight}">
                  <!-- Place your content here. Size and position the border for window positioning-->
              </Border>
          </Grid>
      </ControlTemplate>
    </Setter.Value>
  </Setter>
</Style>

Bindings

Path	Type	Data	Notes
OpenDialog	Command	-	Opens the Now Playing dialog
OpenCustomDialog	Command	-	Opens the Now Playing custom dialog (see Custom Now Playing Dialog for implementation)
CloseDialog	Command	-	Closes the Now Playing custom dialog (see Custom Now Playing Dialog for implementation)
ReturnToGame	Command	-	Directly return to the currently running game
CloseGame	Command	-	Directly close the currently running game
IsGameRunning	Boolean	true if a game is currently running, false otherwise	Used to conditionally show buttons based on a game being run
RunningGame.IconPath	String	The full URI of the currently Running Game's Icon	For visual context for whatever the currently running Game is
RunningGame.CoverPath	String	The full URI of the currently Running Game's Cover	For visual context for whatever the currently running Game is
RunningGame.BackgroundPath	String	The full URI of the currently Running Game's Background Image	For visual context for whatever the currently running Game is
RunningGame.GameName	String	The full Name of the currently running Game	For display of the currently running game
SessionLength	String	The length of the current gaming session, expressed as H:MM	Updates every 10s. E.g. A session of length 123 minutes will be displayed as 2:03.
GameClosing	Boolean	Set to true when a game is attempted to be closed. Will reset back to false once Playnite sees the game has closed	Can be used for notifying the user of the game being closed or handling optimistic updates.

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Special Thanks to MikeAniki and V for helping out with the testing and implementation details