Blue Devil Skin RELEASED - Page 30

wfs1 · 11-09-2006, 05:48 AM

I use this, DeLorme Serial Emulation Driver for USB. I thought I read that some were having problems with it. I'm not, may have been with IG.
Also their site say's version 1.1, If you bought Street Atlas 2006 or below, then the utility driver shows version 1.0... from their install DVD..

One thing I noticed about this virtual port driver, If you have multiple USB devices, (who doesn't) like a WLAN dongle,etc. then from a cold boot or from hibernation, the DeLorme Serial Emulation Driver takes the front (process) while it's initializing, make sure to let it do it's thing, the other USB devices will follow suit and initialize fine, this can take several seconds..

SangreDeThor · 11-09-2006, 10:59 AM

Ouch John, a crash and you didnt back up trillian? how the hell... not to mention... your contacts are stored on AIM's servers not your computer....something smells fishy..

will AIM you later today.
So how is the skin coming?

JohnWPB · 11-09-2006, 06:29 PM

I had just about everything backed up thank God.... I did however lose 2 days of stuff that I was working on on the skin... Not much stuff though, just little things. The drive went out totally, Scratching and clicking sounds and all. I couldn't retrieve anything from the drive, and just had to drop a couple bills for a new one.

As for the screen names stored on AOL's server, that is where it gets strange, I lost some recent names, and recovered some from like 4 years ago that were NOT on my list before the crash. Even though AOL stores the names remotely, that doesn't cover ICQ, Yahoo and MSN that handle things a bit differently.

I am having to rethink the animated weather thing

. The webplugin sometimes just refuses to close, and other times it closes fine with the same button! Even with "||CLOSE||EXIT||CLOSE" on the button! The problem is, if it does not close when returning to the RR screen, RR is useless, and the ONLY way to get control back is to First end task the webplugin, and then RR, and restart RR. WAY to unstable.... I am looking at alternate ways to try to do this.

I did add a nice little confirmation to the XM and Sirius skins. Press a new button on the skin, and the Artist name and Title are saved to a .txt file for later review to get the song that you were listening to. This also work for advertisements, if you HAPPEN to hear something you are interested in, just tap the button, it is saved, and a Confirmation pop's up showing the Artist / Title that was saved, and disappears 2 seconds later.

SangreDeThor · 11-09-2006, 07:49 PM

nice work on the skin.
very weird with AOL.

JohnWPB · 11-09-2006, 10:20 PM

I was just tinkering around with the colors of iGuidance. I do not like the default colors, as it makes the maps look "cartoonish" to me.

I just duplicated the look of Google Maps, and it turned out pretty good. I am not sure how well it will work in the car yet, in the sunlight and all, but it sure looks nice here on the desktop. The link to it is in the first post.

Here is a screen shot, NOT perfect, but as close as I could get with iGuidance:

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SangreDeThor · 11-09-2006, 11:34 PM

Ohh. very nice i like it a lot

05MaXSL · 11-10-2006, 10:12 AM

First off; GREAT JOB on this skin!!
Is there anyway to use the keyboard arrow keys to navigate around the different buttons or is this touchscreen only? The reason I ask is that I often use my powermate (which is set up to emulate the right and left arrow clicks, along with the enter button) to navigate through rr, but so far have been unable to do so with your skin.

JohnWPB · 11-10-2006, 10:47 AM

That is something I will have to look into. What skin were you using that you could navigate with the keyboard? That would give me a good place to start to see how it is done in that skin.

kbreeden · 11-10-2006, 10:49 AM

Wow, I love this skin. Nice work, John!

One question, though, since I haven't used RR in a while. I don't think I want to use a logo. Is there a way I can tell the skin to use the RR logo or to not use a logo at all? I would be perfectly happy if the middle of the skin was just solid blue for example.

If that's not possible, I could use the Acura logo you've posted. But how do I get rid of the white areas surrounding the logo? Sorry if these are newb questions, but as I said I haven't done much with RR lately.

Thanks in advance.

kbreeden · 11-10-2006, 11:38 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by kbreeden

Wow, I love this skin. Nice work, John!

One question, though, since I haven't used RR in a while. I don't think I want to use a logo. Is there a way I can tell the skin to use the RR logo or to not use a logo at all? I would be perfectly happy if the middle of the skin was just solid blue for example.

If that's not possible, I could use the Acura logo you've posted. But how do I get rid of the white areas surrounding the logo? Sorry if these are newb questions, but as I said I haven't done much with RR lately.

Thanks in advance.

D'oh! I didn't have flash installed. The logo works great now. Love this skin!

05MaXSL · 11-10-2006, 12:21 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by JohnWPB

That is something I will have to look into. What skin were you using that you could navigate with the keyboard? That would give me a good place to start to see how it is done in that skin.

The default rr skin, LSX 3.0 and LSX void.
Thank you for looking into this.

afterdigital · 11-10-2006, 06:01 PM

this is driving me crazy (no punn intended). i've been trying to get the weather going but in RRConif.exe nothing happens when i save the settings. it always goes back to north america, united states, no state - blank. urggh

please help.

JohnWPB · 11-10-2006, 06:46 PM

You must be using Onstar in your car. That will intefere with the weather options.

Hehehe just kidding, ok what exactly is the problem? Are you talking about the standard weather screens or the weather maps? If it's the standard weather, You shouldnt have to even alter the rr.ini, as pressing and holding one of the buttons at the top of the screen should enter the values for you automatically in the rr.ini.

If you are seeing the weather information, and not the icons, then you need to go to rrdownloads.net and get the weather icons.

If it is the weather maps, then you need to change the maps to display in the blue devil/weather folder weather.ini file to show the maps that you want.

If ya give me a little more info, I am sure we can get it working for you.