Digital FX 2.0 Transparent Released - Page 12

hpric · 01-12-2007, 01:23 PM

Red is down also

Mr_Civic · 01-12-2007, 01:56 PM

hpric, try again they are working.

DeadlyAP1 · 01-12-2007, 02:01 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by kbreeden

John,

With all the skin colors that are going to be available it occurred to me that some skins will likely look better during the day and some better at night. That got me to thinking that it might be neat if there was an autoswitch feature in DFX. One could, for example, set it to automatically switch from the blue skin to the black skin at 5:00 p.m. and from the black skin back to the blue skin at 7:00 a.m.

It turns out that there has been some recent discussion on this in the forum and it does work, though it requires some RR configuration changes. I know that with DFX we can now easily switch the skins manually, but I'm wondering if you've given any thought to adding an autoswitch option.

RR already does this for you. Set one color for "day skin" and one for "night skin" in RR config.

kbreeden · 01-12-2007, 02:42 PM

Quote:

RR already does this for you. Set one color for "day skin" and one for "night skin" in RR config.

Yes, I know that I can choose a day skin and a night skin in RRConfig and then manually change the skins when I want to in the skins screen in DFX. I was just thinking it might me neat to have it do the switch automatically at times of the day you designate. It's not a big deal because John has already made it very easy to switch.

Here's a thread on it for anyone who's interested:

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/road-runner/93622-question-autoswitching-skins.html

It looks like it can be setup without too much trouble, but I thought it would be neat if the DFX skin itself had a button for auto switch day/night skins and a place to input the switch times. Now that John has all the different colors going future skin changes will have to made multiple times, so it's probably not worth the effort to include the configuration in the skin.

JohnWPB · 01-12-2007, 03:11 PM

Ok, I put the files up on SangreDeThor's server. Hopefully this will take care of being able to download them.

Some of you may experience problems from switching from the Digital to the analog clock if you downloaded the skin before 3:00 PM on 1/12/07. I had forgotten to copy the 2 different skin files to the temp directory, that allows the switch to work.

So as of the time mentioned above, the installer, as well as the digital / analog switching has been taken care of.

As for auto switching the skin, RR is supposed to do this as a time that you set in the RRConfig automatically. There have been some issues with it not working exactly as intended. I think that enough attention has been brought to this in the past week or so, and am thinking a fix will probably be in the next RR version.

As for having FM on the CarPc, as mentioned, some have completely replaced their Head Unit with the CarPc. There are also a few other good reason for this:

- It allows everything to be controlled from the same familiar interface.
- Also instead of just seeing "1" as the preset number on your car stereo, you can actually see the station Name / frequency to press EA: "1- 94.3 Real Radio (Talk)"
- You can have an unlimited number of presets. You are no longer stuck with just the 6/10 ect that your car stereo is limited to.
- With a radio capable of RDS hooked to the PC< you can see the name of the song and artist, and press a button to save the name of that song, to review later to go buy or whatever.
- Switching from MP3, Satellite Radio is seamless, and requires no pressing a button on your car stereo to switch to line, aux ect.
- It can be easily muted with a tap of the screen

Enforcer · 01-12-2007, 03:12 PM

Auotswitching when a certain time is reached is all very well, but what we (I) really need is something that detects it's on the wrong skin and then switches, unless of course you have manually switched away from the designated day or night skin. Because most of the time the time to switch will have happened whilst hibernated.

JohnWPB · 01-12-2007, 03:19 PM

I will have to look in the RR commands and such. I may be able to do some sort of If/then/else statement to fire ONSKINSTART. If nothing else, I could probably create a VBscript/AutoIt Script to handle it.

This way, when RR returns from hibernate/ is bootoed up, it would look at the time in the rr.ini and compare it to the current time when the skin starts, and force the switch, IF it is set to auto switch in the rr.ini as well.

If RR was running at the time that is set in the rr.ini, it would handle the switch at the time you have set in there on its own.

SangreDeThor · 01-12-2007, 03:25 PM

Hows the Downloading going folks? i am currently getting pounded right now by these downloads

. i am going to need to setup another server i think

hehe.

jeffreyd_tx · 01-12-2007, 03:38 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by JohnWPB

I will have to look in the RR commands and such. I may be able to do some sort of If/then/else statement to fire ONSKINSTART. If nothing else, I could probably create a VBscript/AutoIt Script to handle it.

This way, when RR returns from hibernate/ is bootoed up, it would look at the time in the rr.ini and compare it to the current time when the skin starts, and force the switch, IF it is set to auto switch in the rr.ini as well.

If RR was running at the time that is set in the rr.ini, it would handle the switch at the time you have set in there on its own.

I will be keeping an eye out for this. Hopefully you make progress on this. I think it will benefit the community!

wishbone · 01-12-2007, 06:35 PM

Great skin! A couple of comments..

Iguidance 3.0 - The vbs scripts and the skin files all have hardcoded directories in them. I don't use the RR installer so my RR directory isn't called "Road Runner". I believe it's possible to use relative directories here instead of absolute? It's not a huge deal, but there's a lot of files I'll have to change. I didn't use the auto installer, does the auto installer massage all these script files to change the directories?
I'm having a bit of trouble with the "POI" button displaying correctly also, but I haven't finished digging through all the files to see if I have more directories I need to change so I may be missing something.

I had a lot of problems with the spectrum analyzer visualization. This probably isn't a digital FX issue, but it likes to try and display in the right spot and then it shifts over to the right and displays over the buttons. I followed all of your instructions down to uninstalling and installing the exact version of winamp you suggest. Sometimes it will display correctly, but that's about 1 in 10.

I would really love a minimal IG skin. Something with nothing more than a back button. Just personal preference here, but I like more realestate for the map and less for shortcut buttons when I really need to examine the map. For navigation this is less important of course, but sometimes it's nice to be able to fully expand the map.

Would it be difficult to move over to MBM instead of the speedfan software? I think MBM is a lot more commonly used than speedfan, but that may just be my perception.

Another personal preference is volume. I like to see the volume setting on every skin. Sometimes this isn't possible, but it's one of those features you find yourself using a lot.

GPS speedo is whacky, but you already know that =)

Other than that, I really like the skin. It feels very complete, thanks for all the hard work on this one!

Firebird2 · 01-12-2007, 07:08 PM

Hi, love the new skin. As I am from australia the only option I have is to use freedrive as we need to use destinator Maps.

How do I set up to use FreeDrive so that it does not load the Iguidence buttons.

Cheers Glynn

JohnWPB · 01-12-2007, 08:36 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by wishbone

Great skin! A couple of comments..

Iguidance 3.0 - The vbs scripts and the skin files all have hardcoded directories in them. I don't use the RR installer so my RR directory isn't called "Road Runner". I believe it's possible to use relative directories here instead of absolute? It's not a huge deal, but there's a lot of files I'll have to change. I didn't use the auto installer, does the auto installer massage all these script files to change the directories?
I'm having a bit of trouble with the "POI" button displaying correctly also, but I haven't finished digging through all the files to see if I have more directories I need to change so I may be missing something.

I had a lot of problems with the spectrum analyzer visualization. This probably isn't a digital FX issue, but it likes to try and display in the right spot and then it shifts over to the right and displays over the buttons. I followed all of your instructions down to uninstalling and installing the exact version of winamp you suggest. Sometimes it will display correctly, but that's about 1 in 10.

I would really love a minimal IG skin. Something with nothing more than a back button. Just personal preference here, but I like more realestate for the map and less for shortcut buttons when I really need to examine the map. For navigation this is less important of course, but sometimes it's nice to be able to fully expand the map.

Would it be difficult to move over to MBM instead of the speedfan software? I think MBM is a lot more commonly used than speedfan, but that may just be my perception.

Another personal preference is volume. I like to see the volume setting on every skin. Sometimes this isn't possible, but it's one of those features you find yourself using a lot.

GPS speedo is whacky, but you already know that =)

Other than that, I really like the skin. It feels very complete, thanks for all the hard work on this one!

I agree with the hard coded directories. When I first started using AutoIt to do s few simple scripts, It was the only way I knew how to do it. I will see about putting an .ini file in the scrpts directory, that all of the scripts will use to get the correct path.

The spectrum analyzer is definitely finicky! I had to completely remove Winamp myself, and reinstall it to get it to work again. I am unsure where the actual problem is, so it's hard for me to create some sort of workaround.

I'm not really sure what you mean by the POI button not displaying correctly. Can you elaborate on it a bit?

As for iGuidance full screen, I was chatting with LiquidSmoke the other night, and he showed me a way to do just that. Have a FULL SCREEN iGuidance screen, with a single overlayed button in the top right to get back out of the screen to RR. I plan on adding this in to the skin soon.

Ok maybe I am just being stupid here, but does anyone know what "FLAC" is? My user level on the forums just went from "Maximum Bitrate" to "FLAC".

RichP714 · 01-12-2007, 09:57 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by JohnWPB

Ok maybe I am just being stupid here, but does anyone know what "FLAC" is? My user level on the forums just went from "Maximum Bitrate" to "FLAC".

FLAC is Free Lossless Audio Compression...it's a compressed audio format that is suppossedly lossles, usually about 25% compression compared to WAV which isn't as good as MP3 at 320kBPS, but lots of people use it to 'archive' their CD's

Enjoy!
Rich

zap · 01-12-2007, 10:41 PM

John,

under the weather button 1 and 5day forecast works fine.
When I go to either the Temp/Radar/Sat buttons, it brings up old maps dated jan 4.
is there something I need to configure for this part to work ?

-Zap

zap · 01-12-2007, 10:51 PM

Never mind, found the answer should have read the chm file first.

-Zap

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