RR new feature - switch day/night skin - Page 3

skippy76 · 11-23-2005, 03:08 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by dfk70

Would it be possible to connect to the headlight switch to determine day/night?

If you have a phidget interface 8/8/8 I could indeed read the state of a digital input (probably a relay input) to determin if the headlights are on.

Once you've got your phidget interface wired to your headlights to test, I'll code it... (again, probably about 4 mins to code... pretty simple...)

arebelspy · 11-23-2005, 03:13 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by skippy76

Ok, so you realise I could implement your request in probably about 5 mins? Maybe 6 mins if I have to test it...

Maybe if you say:

"Is there any chance while you are changing the code that you could add an additional option to change the Gamma / Skin based on a nightstart and daystart setting in RRConfig, seperate to GPS reading"...

then I may actually add it for you?

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Well I'd appreciate that, and I'm sure a few others here would as well.

Quote: Originally Posted by skippy76

Now let's get down to productive stuff. Apart from a nightstart and daystart in time format:

hh:mm

Is there anything else you want?

I think that's basically it.

Pretty much what roadhog said:
...
AutoSwitch=False
DayTime=8:00:00 AM
NightTime=6:00:00 PM
...

..if that works then you don't even need to bother, if that was thrown in to be implemented later then your work would be appreciated. The option to set it in rrconfig.exe would also make it slightly easier.

-arebelspy

skippy76 · 11-23-2005, 03:22 PM

Yes, the daytime / nighttime are in the skin general.ini, along with the Gamma values... however, the question is should they be in there or would they be better off in the rr.ini?

My reasoning:

You can have a night skin and day skin. When RR starts it could be night... therefore you would immediatly want to load the nights skin. Basicaly the daygamma and nightgamma and day / night times are really skin independent. Therefore they are more suited to being in the rr.ini

Who agrees / disagrees? If so I can ensure that this funcitonality is there (as an option in RRConfig) and also move them into rr.ini too.

arebelspy · 11-23-2005, 04:22 PM

I agree, seems like it should be a global RR setting, not skin-dependant.

The other thing though is how does this work? Does it only check the time when RR is loaded? Because what if one resumes from hibernate and it is now night?

-arebelspy

roadhog · 11-23-2005, 09:53 PM

I would vote for the appropiate general.ini values to be global, ie placed in the rr.ini and edited by rrconfig. I suppose when this function was implemented it was envisaged that people would settle and customise their own skin with values to suit. Perhaps it's a hangover from MediaCar days as there is now an entry for day and night skin. Anyone (myself included) who wants further functionality provided by GPS info could petition Skippy76 to develop his (her?) plugin.

DiNASTY · 11-23-2005, 11:01 PM

Quote:

My reasoning:

You can have a night skin and day skin. When RR starts it could be night... therefore you would immediatly want to load the nights skin. Basicaly the daygamma and nightgamma and day / night times are really skin independent. Therefore they are more suited to being in the rr.ini

good reasoning

Quote:

(her?)

Not likely, I think there are only 3-4 female members out of the 25500 guys.

skippy76 · 11-23-2005, 11:04 PM

Yes, unfortunatly I'm I him... oh, and if thee are any her's out there, I got married 3 weeks ago... sorry...

Re: GPS Gamma changes... should have them done tomorrow AM EST. Look out for BETA 10.

skippy76 · 11-24-2005, 11:27 PM

There you go... I've done it...

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/road-runner/64261-released-beta-10-a.html

It took a bit longer than 5 mins though... I had to make major redesigns to RRConfig as RRConfig was based on just one form. When I went to add the control for the time to the form it reached it's max controls... This lead to a mamoth effort to redesign the RRConfig putting each category on to a seperate form!

Cligit4l4o4 · 12-27-2005, 03:45 AM

hi there i was wondering if someone could help me out here

skippy76 · 12-27-2005, 10:18 AM

This is still in BETA, has not been merged in GA release yet.

Civic03 · 12-28-2005, 01:59 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by skippy76

Yes, the daytime / nighttime are in the skin general.ini, along with the Gamma values... however, the question is should they be in there or would they be better off in the rr.ini?

My reasoning:

You can have a night skin and day skin. When RR starts it could be night... therefore you would immediatly want to load the nights skin. Basicaly the daygamma and nightgamma and day / night times are really skin independent. Therefore they are more suited to being in the rr.ini

Who agrees / disagrees? If so I can ensure that this funcitonality is there (as an option in RRConfig) and also move them into rr.ini too.

Of course I'm probably late but I agree. All I want is to be able to load a night skin when dark and a day skin when light using the system time. If RR loads and it's dark then please load the night skin first. Of course if you can make it an option for this behavior (turn on/off) then it should suit everyone.

Great job guys; keep it up.

Meelobee · 12-29-2005, 08:15 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Civic03

Of course I'm probably late but I agree. All I want is to be able to load a night skin when dark and a day skin when light using the system time. If RR loads and it's dark then please load the night skin first. Of course if you can make it an option for this behavior (turn on/off) then it should suit everyone.

Great job guys; keep it up.

Yes I'm ears for that! I'd like to see an option where you can set a time for night and day skin in the ini or settings. Then RoadRunner should launch the right skin depending on the system time and the times set in ini or settings. The option to this change manually is allready in RR.
GPS based is nice, but way to complicated for my and many others needs. (not to say there is no intrest in GPS based, cause there is)

Is this a hard thing to implement, or is it allready out there and did I miss it?

dbassix · 05-19-2006, 11:08 AM

Hi. Is this put into the new version of roadrunner yet, and if so how do i auto change day and night skin?

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