I'll get back later with a bit more details how to use the new features, but there is now a new version of the Custom Clock applet including helper plugin available, so you can start the experiment with it.
******* NOTE!********** All the sdt related styles and items requires a recent version of Super Date Time soon to be released. If you really want to try the new features already now you can install the release candidate of Super Date Time manually, it's found in this post: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=549065#post549065 (Keep in mind that it's not an official release yet) **** CREDITS **** - *GoCubs* should have all credits for the extensions he has made to the Super Date Time plugin that opened up a LOT of possibilities. Custom Clock just displays what Super Date Time provides. - *bluegaspode* should have credit for including the necessary Custom Clock integration in his Weather applet to support the appleticon/applettext items. - Anyone that has provided a style that's part of the bundled set of styles should now also see their nickname in the style. So if you haven't provided a style yet, please do and your name will be there too. Anyway, the new features in Custom Clock (and corresponding Custom Clock Helper) are: - Added support for new sleepicon item type - Added support for new imageicon item type - Added support for scrollable sdtsporttext item - Added information about contributors in style list - Increased so 9 configurations can be configured - Corrected sorting in style list - Show style name instead of just Custom Clock #4 in lists - Added sdtweathermapicon items (requires new Super Date Time version) - Added sdtsporticon and sdtsporttext items (requires new Super Date Time version) - Added sdtstockicon and sdtstocktext items (requires new Super Date Time version) - Added sdtmiscicon and sdtmisctext items (requires new Super Date Time version) - Added sdtweathericon and sdtweathertext items (requires new Super Date Time version) - Added appleticon and applettext items (used by Weather, Daylight Clock and Text Clock applets) - Added pluginicon and plugintext items (used by MythTV and Mail plugins) - Corrected artifacts on scrolling text (might require adjustments on some styles) - Added support for having different fontsizes on multiple row items - Added support for visibility group concept - Added Custom Clock to Extras menu and made it possible to enable it on Home menu - Corrected so it might work on SqueezePlay on Windows - Optimize usage with Screen Switcher applet to avoid delays when switching screen savers continuously Since I don't have the time at the moment to describe exactly how to configure the different items, I'll just give a few ideas of the possibilities. With sdtweathermapicon you can show a satellite image of your area with current weather conditions, Greg's (GoCubs) Super Date Time plugin offers a number of different maps. You can also with the clip* attributes configure it to only show a specific area, for example the area around where you live even if the map is for a larger area. With sdtsporticon and sdtsporttext, you can show a switching display with sport results with both text and team logotypes. All sport results available in the Super Date Time plugin can be shown. You can configure the layout exactly as you like and you can of course combine them with all the other item types supported by Custom Clock. With sdtstockicon and sdtstocktext, you can show stock rates including a day chart for a specific stock. These items will of course also be switching so they will cycle through all stocks you have configured in Super Date Time. With sdtmiscicon and sdtmisctext, you can show long weather information, stock or any information provided by third party plugins that hooks into Super Date Time. The items works the same as the sdtsport* and sdtstock* items. The latest beta versions of my MythTV and Mail plugins uses this integrations, so this means that people with MythTV can show currently active or pending recordings in their MythTV media center and with the Mail plugin you can get a mail notification icon or even show the subjects and some additional information about new mails. With the imageicon, you can display an image, this has of course already been possible before but this item also have clip possibilities. Some usage examples could be showing a continuously updating satellite image of some area you are interested in. My personal usage will be to point it to weather maps which isn't already included in the Super Date Time weather map support. Ẅith appleticon and applettext, you can display text or images provided by other applets. Currently the Weather applet by *bluegaspode* uses this which should make it possible for people mainly using MySB or TinySC to create a style with weather information. If you aren't satisfied with the default layout provided by the Weather applet this is now possible to configure exactly as you want with Custom Clock. Note, to configure your own style, you will need to run a separate Squeezebox Server, but after the configuration it should be enough with TinySC or MySB. Besides this, the just released Text Clock applet and also the Daylight Clock applet uses the same integration. So this makes it possible to display time as "quarter past four" or show moon or earth images in any Custom Clock style. With pluginicon and plugintext, you can integrate any information that third party plugins that integrates with the provider interface in Custom Clock Helper provides. Currently, only the MythTV and Mail plugins in my testing repository supports this integration. It basically gives the same possibilities as the sdtmisc* items mentioned above for users that for some reason doesn't want/can run the Super Date Time plugin. The visibility group concept included in this version makes it possible to have switching information within the same style, for example first show the time as "quarter past four", then show the name of the currently playing artist and finally show the current temperature from Super Date Time. I think this is going to be an important concept considering the limited screen size of the Radio and Touch. Dynamic switching items, as most sdt* items, also automatically adjusts the visibility time. So if there are 10 active sports event an item is shown long enough to display all 10 but if it's only 1 active event it will show shorter time of if there aren't any active events at all it won't be displayed at all. It feels like the real strength with all these items is that you can combined them together on a single screen. I can't wait to see what people with some graphic skills can accomplish with all the SDT items when combining them with all the other supported information. The Screen Switcher plugin has been updated so it works a bit better with Custom Clock and it now also offers the possibility to show different screen savers on different weekdays or times. I'll add some more information about it in the announcement thread for Screen Switcher later today. It's available already now, so feel free to try it out. -- 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=68269 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
