wants, needs, suggestions, comments and more - Page 9

golfguy · 07-13-2008, 11:19 PM

I'll add another positive vote for the graphic design. It fits the look of my car well. The rapidly maturing functionality is great, too. Thanks again for a great front end.

hanzov69 · 07-23-2008, 04:28 PM

I don't want to start a new thread for this...

I've created a simple little Applescript that will set the visibility of NBB to true. My thinking is this:

If I can call an applescript from the Map button in NBB, I can set the NBB visible to false, raise the map application (in my case Google Earth), and then provide a "floating" icon that will set Google Earth visible to false and NBB to true.

My stumbling blocks at the moment are thus:
-How to make a floating icon (can do applescript..cocoa/interface builder is beyond my understanding currently)
-How to associate an applescript with the Map icon in NBB

Which means I've really only written the three lines of code necessary to hide/unhide NBB

Bugbyte · 07-23-2008, 07:56 PM

Just use Spaces and launch NBB in one space and your map app in another. ctrl-right arrow will flip between the two.

golfguy · 07-23-2008, 09:55 PM

That's what I do. I have Garmin Mobile PC running in VMWare Fusion in one Space and NBB in the other. I set up a Griffin PowerMate to have the push-down-and-turn to switch spaces, so it's easy to move from one to the other without a keyboard. Works quite well.

NeonDev · 07-24-2008, 09:20 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by hanzov69

I don't want to start a new thread for this...
My stumbling blocks at the moment are thus:
-How to make a floating icon (can do applescript..cocoa/interface builder is beyond my understanding currently)
-How to associate an applescript with the Map icon in NBB

What I think you would want to do is download the sample project from the SDK thread and edit the launch script to do what you want. If you have Xcode you can then just recompile it; if not find the built project do a "show package contents" and replace the script currently residing in the scripts folder. while you're in there you can replace the blank icon with the one from the map module. you can then rename the module you just edited to replace the one in the NBB modules folder.

If that seems like too much, either I can help you, or you can do as the others have suggested and use spaces. its up to you

hanzov69 · 07-24-2008, 09:29 AM

I like the idea of spaces greatly, the problem is I am using a touch screen as my sole input option, which sort of limits what I can do. Basically if I can't primary click it, it's not doable.

That is unless someone knows something about spaces I don't (highly likely).

roseforeplay · 07-24-2008, 11:10 AM

Hot corners? Does that work from within NBB? You could setup Expose hot corners and set one up to show you spaces and when you need to use the map point in the corner and it should activate.

I don't recall if you can use spaces with hot corners so another option would be to open the map program and the open NBB in front of it. The use hot corners to show all windows and choose the map one.

Another way is to get an Apple remote and use RemoteBuddy. You could program the remote to switch spaces.

NeonDev · 07-24-2008, 12:34 PM

if you are looking for a solution similar to this it can be done, and I will help you. Basically its just NBB control bars floating on-top of safari. hitting the home button takes you to the NBB home screen and you can launch safari from a button on the home screen dial. the safari window is resized by the module launch script.

Hot corners may also work.

hanzov69 · 07-30-2008, 05:35 PM

I found an interesting "quirk" with my touchscreen which actually solves my Spaces issue.

Turns out that when I switch the source to an AV input (namely rear-view camera), when I return to the VGA, Spaces will display both Desktops.
(Brad, you can see this in that demo video I sent you)

And on the off chance someone else here is contemplating a Mini in their MINI, I customized the clock image. You can grab it over here

NeonDev · 07-31-2008, 09:28 AM

Nice! my friend used to make custom clock pix like that, but he hasn't been available to do it in a long while.

Mind if I steal that to put in the downloads section of the site?
If anybody has any other custom content like this I would very much like to have it as well.

hanzov69 · 07-31-2008, 09:41 AM

By all means, please do so!

Same with the video. If you are concerned about bandwidth, let me know and I will continue to host it on my site, but I would like to create a landing page (so I can track the downloads).

NeonDev · 07-31-2008, 10:01 AM

no im not concerned about bandwidth. at least not yet. what's a landing page?
just let me know what i need to do to set it up

hanzov69 · 07-31-2008, 10:11 AM

Oh, I just meant something like a page that has some embedded javascript for say, Google Analytics, that automatically redirects to a download.

That way, when someone clicks on the link, it will load the page, I know where they came from, etc etc.
It's fairly transparent to the user, but it helps keep track of how many times a file has been downloaded, where they came from (IE did they click on the link at mp3car.com or neonboombox.com) etc.

In fact, I would highly recommend it for the Neon Boombox download, help you get a real feel for how many people are using your software.

NeonDev · 07-31-2008, 11:41 AM

I have an program called AWstats running on our webserver that will track all sorts of info like that month to month. It does have about a 24 hr delay on it tho so its not really a live update but it works for what i need.

Did you want me to track the downloads or were you suggesting that you host the file on your server and I just link to it or something else?

RC 6 has gotten 60 downloads so far. that is nearly twice as many as any prior version lol. But at the same time it has been the newest download available for almost twice as long as any prior version... (1.0 final is nearly complete BTW)

hanzov69 · 07-31-2008, 11:43 AM

No, you don't need to track the downloads for the video. I was just saying that if *I hosted* the download, I would be tracking it.

AWStats is handy, but you might want to look at Google Analytics, it's a data mining paradise of information.

Best part is you just have to dump a but of javascript in the footer, nothing else to do. So AWStats continues to function normally.