RR 10-26-2007.. iLists & Custom stuff..

**guino** · 10-29-2007, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by Dalailama

I installed dx9c at first shot! can anyone help me?

Add Debugmode=true to RR.INI and post your debug.txt file to see what happens when trying to use an iList. There may be something missing/broken on your OS.. do check you have DX7VB.DLL in your system32 folder.

**guino** · 10-29-2007, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by Machinehead

I don't know if any one else is having an issue, but the binary archive is coming up corrupt for me.

Edit: It's only an issue at the mirror site: http://www.kompassist.co.uk/

This is normally an anti-virus or cache thing. The file is not corrupt in the site.

**Sonicxtacy02** · 10-29-2007, 09:40 AM

hey Guino... does the new ilist feature change anything with the CUSTOMDL labels? I'm just tryin to figure a way to get the ilist feature in a flash skin.

**tbird2340** · 10-29-2007, 11:08 AM

Terribly sorry for the stupid question..

What exactly are iLists? I watched the video, searched the forums but couldn't really find anything.. Are they just made to look like how the iPhone browses (I don't have anything Apple so maybe that's why I don't know about them?)

What are the benefits of using them?

Thanks!

**guino** · 10-29-2007, 11:18 AM

They are lists you can scroll with your finger and throw for auto scrolling.. you'd have to try it out to understand them... they're not required, and using them or not is entirely up to you.

**greatwhite** · 10-29-2007, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by guino

They are lists you can scroll with your finger and throw for auto scrolling.. you'd have to try it out to understand them... they're not required, and using them or not is entirely up to you.

I didn't think too much of them at first, but you have to give it a chance and get familar with it. Now that I'm used to it, it's fantastic!
Browsing a long list is easy as pie.

Nice addition guino.

Thanks.

**Sonicxtacy02** · 10-29-2007, 11:43 AM

I have another question.. and its kinda hard to explain so bare with me. I'm trying to display the album art of items in my playlist(image below shows idea in use). This is now easy to do with the LISTPOSXXXTRACKPATH label. however, if i'm scrolling the list the album art by each item of the list stays the same (as if the list isnt being scrolled). So my idea was to use the TRACKPATHXXX label... and if i wanted to get the album art for the song in the second list position i'd just solve for LISTPOS + 1 then get the trackpath for that number. This works as it should.. but it also requires me to have labels defined int he skin file for EVERY item in my list.. be it a 10 item list or a 10 thousand item list. Is there no way to get around having to have these labels defined?

**guino** · 10-29-2007, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

hey Guino... does the new ilist feature change anything with the CUSTOMDL labels? I'm just tryin to figure a way to get the ilist feature in a flash skin.

It should not change the existing interface, but I may have to do some extra checks unless you're using flashbrowse, flashback and getpl.

**guino** · 10-29-2007, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

I have another question.. and its kinda hard to explain so bare with me. I'm trying to display the album art of items in my playlist(image below shows idea in use). This is now easy to do with the LISTPOSXXXTRACKPATH label. however, if i'm scrolling the list the album art by each item of the list stays the same (as if the list isnt being scrolled). So my idea was to use the TRACKPATHXXX label... and if i wanted to get the album art for the song in the second list position i'd just solve for LISTPOS + 1 then get the trackpath for that number. This works as it should.. but it also requires me to have labels defined int he skin file for EVERY item in my list.. be it a 10 item list or a 10 thousand item list. Is there no way to get around having to have these labels defined?

Yes, you can use SETFLASHVAR to poll anything directly from RR without waiting for it to send it to you...

fscommand("SETVARBYCODE;TMPVAR;TRACKPATH"+N+"||SET FLASHVAR;TRACKPATH;TMPVAR","");

Note that the information will be received asynchronously.. (unlike GETPL which returns immediately with all the Playlist information -- the same trackpath info).

N of course would have the item number for the item you wish _root.TRACKPATH to receive the info.

I can also make it so that GETPL will return the playlist information as the trackpaths + description (as for DirLists). I actually thought this is how it was setup, but just realized it's not the case -- but this would create an incompatibility for older skins, so I'd recommand creating a new GETPLPATHS command for flash which would do the same thing.

**Sonicxtacy02** · 10-29-2007, 01:11 PM

Originally Posted by guino

Yes, you can use SETFLASHVAR to poll anything directly from RR without waiting for it to send it to you...

fscommand("SETVARBYCODE;TMPVAR;TRACKPATH"+N+"||SET FLASHVAR;TRACKPATH;TMPVAR","");

Note that the information will be received asynchronously.. (unlike GETPL which returns immediately with all the Playlist information -- the same trackpath info).

N of course would have the item number for the item you wish _root.TRACKPATH to receive the info.

I can also make it so that GETPL will return the playlist information as the trackpaths + description (as for DirLists). I actually thought this is how it was setup, but just realized it's not the case -- but this would create an incompatibility for older skins, so I'd recommand creating a new GETPLPATHS command for flash which would do the same thing.

a new command would make it even easier.. i'll check it out and see if thats somethin i can add myself to the source. Thanks G