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

Hi Guino, is it true that you have married last time ? if yes, best wishes for you and your wife. and believe me its better to go outside for a while as to fight.

now some comments to your request... and sorry my english is not the best...but i do my very best.

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.

answer:
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.

comment:
i ask for it because the INTERNET RADIO now is a part of "AUDIO", for me its home in the family of "RADIO".
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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.

answer:
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.

comment:
be guilty with me, in my age it needs a liitle longer to understand what you guys mean.
a simple example would be nice.
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3)
popups selectable "with/without" backgroundscreen.

comment:
answer given in question 2

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

answer:
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.

comment:

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

answer:
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.

comment:
i remember it, i must look for good looking fonts and rename them for iList showing.

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

answer:
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.

comment:
i have an ADS stick, that means ADS is not working well ?

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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).

answer:
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.

comment:
sorry for my naiv asking, i thought its enough to change the declaration of tis flag.

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9)
showing all information of the internet radio. title and station name.

answer:
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.

comment:
now i use the way John goes with the playlists inside the Internet Radio skin.

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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.

answer:
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.

comment:
yeah the plugs for ICE radio is one of the problem. i dont use it, i want give Spidermuzz plug a try.

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


answer:
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.



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".

answer:
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


comment:
yeah i know that its all editable. in time of a FM radio it make sense. now in time of RDS or HD where all informations are possible
i thought i could make it automaticly.
with pressing a PRESET button open the frequence which are safed under this button and READIN the name of the RADIO-STATION.
BUT....
in time where i press a PRESET button is no STATION NAME available. it needs a short time (open the channel..getting
the data from the sender..push into the roadrunner flag) ..before it showing on the screen.
that means, in first time where i press the PRESET button are no information in the RDSNAME variable.
therefore i need a timer which work in follow way... PRESET button pressed..start timer for 3seconds..timer ended and PRESET button
is pressed...take the data from RDSNAME and write it in variable for STATION under this PRESET button.
if i leave the PRESET button in time where the timer runs..it stops the timer.
a short press (PRESET button) open the selected frequnce without loading the RDSNAME and all data are the old existed one.