Greg, do you have a lot of things left before you feel ready to make an official release ?
I currently plan to make a new release of Custom Clock during the next day or so unless I find some problems. It would be great if we could get an official release of Super Date Time soon so people can start designing Custom Clock styles with weather, stocks and sports information. The hash based custom items aren't critical to me, I've made a temporary solution through Custom Clock Helper that solves my problem with my Mail and MythTV plugins. I'll integrate them with Super Date Time later when you have finished the implementation but it's not important for the initial release. I'll attach the latest versions with this post in case someone likes to help beta testing. It should now skip visibility groups which doesn't have any items. I've made two new sdt related item types (sdtweathericon and sdtweathertext), sdtweatericon is pretty much exactly the same as sdticon, sdtweathertext is similar to sdttext but the difference is that it reduces the number of round trips to the server a lot, it gets the complete wetData structure once instead of making a server call per item. I'm not really sure if this is needed but it made sense when I realized that some of the styles posted makes a lot of server calls when the screen saver is activated. Together with Screen Switcher applet this makes it even worse since it means that these call can potentially be repeated every 5'th second if you make it switch continuously between Custom Clock and another screen saver. The sdtweathertext and sdtweathericon also have another feature in common with the other sdt items, you can configure them to switch or scroll between the different days. You do this by setting the "period" to "0-2" or "d1-d5". It should make the configuration a bit easier for styles that want to switch between the different forecast days. I wonder if I should have local mapping between the attribute names and the standard % keywords used for weather in SDT so I can use the same % keywords in sdtweathertext ? The disadvantage is if you add a weather keyword in SDT I'll also have to modify Custom Clock. The sdtweathermapicon now also have clip attributes so you can show only a part of a weather map provided by SDT, for example zooming into your region. There are some other exiting news in this version and related applets/plugins but I'll announce those when making the official release in a day or two. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: CustomClockHelper-2.8.3172.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9959| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77864 _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/jive
