Thread: RR 11-15-08 ... New Version & News

Originally Posted by AXm77

Guino can you take care of this problem?

Check your PM

IS IT SHAMELESS to ask for some more commands and/or changes ???

my wishlist for christmas, so i can make my skins i like to have in my car.

[ironic on] i know i post it again but its my demenz that i forget if anyone gives me an answer.[ironic off]

1)
a single command for RADIO "on/off"
a single command for AUDIO "on/off"
not the way through the "radio_player.skin" or "audio_player.skin" the radiomute didnt work for me.

2)
selection for 5 different backgroundscreens in one skin. if i want to draw a storyboard as skin it would be nice to have different backgrounds.

3)
popups selectable "with/without" backgroundscreen.

4)
backgroundscreen justable like PopUps. "/POSX=, /POSY=, /SHOWWIDTH=, /SHOWHEIGHT="

5)
better quality of fonts in the iList window. now are only some fonts with good quality.

6)
a working "RDSSIGNAL" for the ADS radio too. now it only works "RSIGNAL" in slider showing.

7)
a second radio preset function for station name, delayed readin when button pressed.

8)
a change inside the usbradio.dll for showing the RDSTEXT. selectable for RDSText showing in LINE format or showing in 2 block format.
(the problem of all my ADS sticks is, they only show the RDSTEXT if it selected as 2 blocks).

9)
showing all information of the internet radio. title and station name. (more communication with winamp)

10)
with the command X,xxxxx in the menu.skin i can load a driver or plug. i need a command to unload it.
perhaps its possible to do it with "SELECT" if the skin_browser is showing.
if i change the skin to another one sometimes i get no output. example the plug for the ICERADIO is one of these problems.

11)
i want to start a timer with a pressed button, its not possible because the signal of the button only works with "pulse of button NOT PRESSED"
dont know how you call it in english, but i need the a signal of pressed button also the frontside and all the time i pressed him.
its using for starting a timer, if selected time is ended and button is also pressed....shift data from "a" to "b".

Originally Posted by GF-ler

1)
a single command for RADIO "on/off"
a single command for AUDIO "on/off"
not the way through the "radio_player.skin" or "audio_player.skin" the radiomute didnt work for me.

trust me when i say this would require a MAJOR rewrite. I've tried this countless times and i just gave up

Perhaps I'm using it wrong or missing something, but I cannot get inipath= working at all.

I'm running the OS and RR from read only XPE on flash media and having rr.ini on a write-able drive will save settings. No matter what I set inipath= to it still read rr.ini from root.

Maybe a bug or maybe i'm using it wrong, although it seems to be a pretty straight forward option.

@ GF-ler
try to look my silabs plugin and usbradio.dll
i've add much features than original usbradio.dll and its works both for silabs and ads
i've add an entire gamma of new commands/indicators/slider, smart and fast af engine, eon support, stereo and quadriphonic sound system and separate volume slider for each channel and master radio volume channel, radioart for radio and preset, preset based by pi (radio station identificator numer) not by frequencies (if you are in different zone where the radio have a different frequence my af engine search right frequence for your radio automatically)
ta function, news function, radio volume automatically reduced on sygic gps speech (using drivemon support)...and much more
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/rr-p...ds-silabs.html

edit:
p.s. in next day i'll upload new version of the plugin (i have to fix some minor bugs)

Originally Posted by spidermunz

@ GF-ler
try to look my silabs plugin and usbradio.dll
i've add much features than original usbradio.dll and its works both for silabs and ads
i've add an entire gamma of new commands/indicators/slider, smart and fast af engine, eon support, stereo and quadriphonic sound system and separate volume slider for each channel and master radio volume channel, radioart for radio and preset, preset based by pi (radio station identificator numer) not by frequencies (if you are in different zone where the radio have a different frequence my af engine search right frequence for your radio automatically)
ta function, news function, radio volume automatically reduced on sygic gps speech (using drivemon support)...and much more
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/rr-p...ds-silabs.html

edit:
p.s. in next day i'll upload new version of the plugin (i have to fix some minor bugs)

yeah, thanks for your request. i know your plug, and the only reason why i dont use it is the damned X,xxxx in the main menu. if i change to skin where your plug is not integrated, this skin breaks. so i have to insert in all skins your plug or i have to wait that GUINO makes it possible to unload all if i leave the skin by "skin_browser.skin = on & button select".
i was one of the first guys who integrated the ICE-radio plug, its near the same what you do. i know yours is better.
i wait for the next release of your plug and also what GUINO says.
its all the time that the RDSText didnt work in my homezone. first i thought it was the ADS stick, so i get a second one, and the same result.
with an old usbradio.dll (220k) it shows me all what i need. but it didnt work with the newest roadrunner versions.

1)
a single command for RADIO "on/off"
a single command for AUDIO "on/off"
not the way through the "radio_player.skin" or "audio_player.skin" the radiomute didnt work for me.

2)
selection for 5 different backgroundscreens in one skin. if i want to draw a storyboard as skin it would be nice to have different backgrounds.

3)
popups selectable "with/without" backgroundscreen.

4)
backgroundscreen justable like PopUps. "/POSX=, /POSY=, /SHOWWIDTH=, /SHOWHEIGHT="

5)
better quality of fonts in the iList window. now are only some fonts with good quality.

6)
a working "RDSSIGNAL" for the ADS radio too. now it only works "RSIGNAL" in slider showing.

7)
a second radio preset function for station name, delayed readin when button pressed.

8)
a change inside the usbradio.dll for showing the RDSTEXT. selectable for RDSText showing in LINE format or showing in 2 block format.
(the problem of all my ADS sticks is, they only show the RDSTEXT if it selected as 2 blocks).

9)
showing all information of the internet radio. title and station name. (more communication with winamp)

10)
with the command X,xxxxx in the menu.skin i can load a driver or plug. i need a command to unload it.
perhaps its possible to do it with "SELECT" if the skin_browser is showing.
if i change the skin to another one sometimes i get no output. example the plug for the ICERADIO is one of these problems.

11)
i want to start a timer with a pressed button, its not possible because the signal of the button only works with "pulse of button NOT PRESSED"
dont know how you call it in english, but i need the a signal of pressed button also the frontside and all the time i pressed him.
its using for starting a timer, if selected time is ended and button is also pressed....shift data from "a" to "b".

1) I have to see how much work it is necessary to make this happen, however, it doesn't make sense to allow switching music to radio in the music screen, just as it doesn't make sense to switch from radio to audio in the radio screen -- we'd have to impose some limits on such things.

2) You can have as many different backgrounds in the same skin as you want. You just have to change the "background" variable before loading the screen -- just make sure you don't preload these screens.

3) Not sure I understand this. Again, you can change the background prior to loading a menu and this will modify the background for that menu -- if you don't want a background, you can simply make an empty.jpg image/layer without transparent colors in it.

4) We can expand the background= setting to allow for that, however, there are freely available command line tools which could generate the background images from a file with the desired parameters.

5) Standard iLists display fonts with the HIGHEST font quality possible. TRANSPARENT iLists can not use anti-aliased fonts because of the nature of the code which would never reach acceptable performance with anti-aliased fonts.

6) RDSSIGNAL is a code that is obsolete and currently not used by ANY radio interface. RSIGNAL provides the signal from the radio for Cinergy and Silabs/ADS, both of which are derived from the RDS data.

7) Not sure of what you want. It is possible to make preset buttons with editable names for each button using variables. If you want to edit a name of a preset in the radio playlist, you can use the radio menu or the editpreset command.

8) It is very hard to modify/tweak the core of USBRadio.dll to work better with the ADS tuner without the actual tuner and without RDS signal (here in Brazil) -- the last code I worked on was when I was in Spain, using a Silabs tuner, the DLL I made is posted on the thread at digital-car.co.uk -- I do not know what's currently in the latest USBRadio.dll.

9) I have looked into this in the past, and there was no reliable way to make this possible as there's no telling when/if internet radio information is received, and the only way to obtain it is to save the playlist in winamp and reload it.

10) When you unload a skin, RR unloads all extension plugins -- no exceptions. If you're having trouble when switching skins, chances are that the plugin itself may not be closing/restarting the device properly.

11) I'm not sure what you're trying to do. If you have a timer on a screen, you can use variables to signal a counter to start/stop and count accordingly. It is currently not possible to perform actions while on hold (Down), but it is possible to start a repeating action when pressing a button and stop such repeating action when pressing the same or another button.

Originally Posted by blk02si

Perhaps I'm using it wrong or missing something, but I cannot get inipath= working at all.

I'm running the OS and RR from read only XPE on flash media and having rr.ini on a write-able drive will save settings. No matter what I set inipath= to it still read rr.ini from root.

Maybe a bug or maybe i'm using it wrong, although it seems to be a pretty straight forward option.

There's no such setting as INIPATH= ... the Config used to have it just so you could point it to a different RR.INI location -- this had nothing to do with RR.

I remember a user making a mod for inipath at some point but that was not made as an option so it was never merged.

If you're using XPE, I recommend you use FBWF instead of EWF -- it will save you a lot of trouble.. you can still use HORM with it, though my experience is XPE normally boots faster than it resumes from hibernation.

I'm not a big fan of FBWF, XPE has been my staple for stable automotive computing for some time now.

If there is no inipath= how come it is in rrconfig?

Is this possible to add in the future?

If not I guess I will go with FBWF although it is kind of a PITA compared to EWF