Digital FX 2.0 Transparent Released - Page 17

JohnWPB · 01-17-2007, 07:58 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by spiike

Whenever I reboot I get this. Then after I exit the program and restart it, it works fine. Also it's only the main screen, if I press the menu button to go to the 2nd menu everything is fine. Does anyone else get this or know how to fix it? This only happens on my install on my hp laptop. My thinkpad works fine.

Not sure I like the color scheme you chose there, so don't expect me to create a new skin for it

I have never seen or heard of this before with a RR skin. From past Hardware experience, it looks like a graphic card problem in some way or another. I would try updating the GFX car drivers if HP has an update. Thats all I can suggest on this one....

Quote: Originally Posted by jmciever

I tried using your updated installer for BM (the one you posted a few posts above). It worked, but there was a catch. The first time I ran it, I got the same "File not Found" error. However, as another poster mentioned, I deleted the other skin folders in the main skins folder, and it installed just fine. I then had to re-copy the other skins I use into the skins folder.

Ok, this installer is officially starting to P me off

I just don't get it. When skins are there it says file not found, if you remove the other skins, then the file is mysteriously found? This is driving me batty, and it's very hard to trouble shoot here, as I have never gotten that error. I have completely removed my Road Runner folder, and installed it, installed it to 2 different locations on 2 different hard drives, installed it over itself... and all went without a hitch. I know it has to be something simple, but I cant seem to track it down. It seems to work fine for some people, and not for others. It just is not making any sense to me.

I will keep digging and see what I can come up with. Can you post the exact error text and such here?

jmciver · 01-17-2007, 11:47 AM

The error I received was the same one that was previously posted.

SangreDeThor · 01-17-2007, 12:57 PM

I am not getting any errors for any of the skins. tried it on 2 different machines with 2 different install directories.

Cali · 01-17-2007, 03:13 PM

I know on the last version of blue Devil there was a hidden button to turn on/off the EQ.

Where is it on digital FX? Also there appears to be no notice of on/off, as I know mine is on, but there is no "ON" light as there was from Blue Devil.

as always: this skin rocks!

memyselfandi · 01-17-2007, 05:57 PM

The DigitalFX BM skin was working great until i installed the flash update. It was a fresh install of XP. I downloaded the uninstall from adobe via: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowled...fm?id=tn_14157. I then tried to run RR and it just froze. Then i reinstalled version 8 via: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowled...fm?id=tn_14266 and it was still freezing upon startup. So i redownloaded 9 BMV2 will work(with flash logo's) but DigitalFX won't?
I realize this isn't totally an issue with this particular skin, but i can run flash within the BMV2 and my CPU stays low(around 5-6%). But when i change the skin to DigitalFX BM the buttons don't work and CPU peaks out @ 100%. Now BMV2 is great and all, but DigitalFX is def. my preferred skin. I've looked @ the FAQ and the flash.zip file link is down. Not sure if it's the same as the above one i downloaded though? Any thoughts or suggestions on why flash will work on BMV2 but not yours? I will test/work/try anything until my fingers fall off.........
installed 4in1 update and graphics drivers already also. anything other info that will help?

JohnWPB · 01-17-2007, 10:44 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Cali

I know on the last version of blue Devil there was a hidden button to turn on/off the EQ.

Where is it on digital FX? Also there appears to be no notice of on/off, as I know mine is on, but there is no "ON" light as there was from Blue Devil.

as always: this skin rocks!

I will look into that and see what I might have broke

I have been working on a major application / file copier for Road Runner. Road Runner does not allow you to show the "My Computer" list to browse from. You can only force it to show C: D: ect, but not the list of drive letters to choose from. Road Runner does also not have a way to see what drives are hooked to the computer. It also can not copy files from one place to another. So you can see why I said major application

When completed, and I am 80% completed with it now, it will allow you to browse any drive or folder on your computer and select media files & folders to move to your default music, video or pictures folder.

The back end is done with scripts that RR sends information to and back from to make this all work. It is VERY fast though, and is tightly integrated and seamless. The drive letters that show on the left are dynamic, meaning the drives that are attached to your system. If you plug in a USB thumb drive, memory card reader or what not, hit the refresh button, and the drives will update to show the newly attached drives. When you remove the drive, the letters will disappear from the skin.

You can not immagine the code and stuff to get this to work!

Why did I do this? I am sick of taking out my memory card, or Hard Drive to update my music, Video's ect, and having to deal with 800 x 600 windows on a 7" screen! It is almost impossible to select files and perform a right click to copy and all that mess!

This will allow you browse to and highlight the folder of newly ripped DVD's on your external drive for instance, and simply click "Copy to Video" and you are done. The scripts are set up in such a way that it will not overwrite exsisting files. This means if you add 2 DVD's to your har drive, and plug it in into the CarPC and use the skin to copy over your DVD dir, it will not copy over the 100 or so other dvd, but just the 2 that were not on the computer. It's almost like a simulated way to "sync" the files, but only in one direction.

Here is a proof of concept snapshot. It is not quite complete yet, and I may change things around a little bit before the release.

kbreeden · 01-17-2007, 11:03 PM

Quote:

I have been working on a major application / file copier for Road Runner.

You do realize that there are twelve step programs available for people like you don't you?

Seriously, it looks like an interesting idea. I agree that it's a real pain to do any kind of file manipulation on that little screen. It probably won't be of much use to me because my carputer drive is in a disk caddy that I just take out and plug into my destop when I'm ready to transfer files. I can see it being of tremendous use to people using other file update methods though.

SangreDeThor · 01-18-2007, 08:53 AM

nice i like it.

Grebo · 01-18-2007, 09:50 AM

First of all, this is a fantastic skin that is far more useable than any others I've used.

I'm just tweaking my install and need to know how to configure the skin for Freedrive. I tried looking at the BlueDevil guide but when I use Freedrive it shows the iguidance side bars.

Any tips would be cool.

Cheers.

Greg

afterdigital · 01-18-2007, 12:51 PM

hi everyone, i've been away for sometime. bad news is my car computer died and with the holidays i couldn't scrounge up the money to replace the parts.

When i saw the blue-devil thread was closed i was almost sad by the news until John redirected a link to this thread. Whew!!!! anyway, happy new year to all and thanks for everything you guys have contributed. Especially you John. I look forward to working with you and everyone else on the new skin...

wooohooooo

kbreeden · 01-18-2007, 12:57 PM

Welcome back, AD. Sorry to hear about your puter, but you can use that as an excuse to get an even better one.

GizmoQ · 01-18-2007, 01:25 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Grebo

First of all, this is a fantastic skin that is far more useable than any others I've used.

I'm just tweaking my install and need to know how to configure the skin for Freedrive. I tried looking at the BlueDevil guide but when I use Freedrive it shows the iguidance side bars.

Any tips would be cool.

Cheers.

Greg

Add this to your Exectbl.ini:

"GPS", "Load;Freedrive_Music_GPS.skin:RUN;c:\Program Files\Freedrive\Freedrive.exe;Freedrive"

And put this in your skin folder in a file called Freedrive_Music_GPS.skin:

Code:

MEDIACAR Skin
MEDIACAR IGUIDANCE. Skin
iGuidance_Music_OFF.jpg,iGuidance_Music_OFF.jpg,iGuidance_Music_OFF.jpg,iGuidance_Music_DOWN.jpg
/, L, x, y, w, h, color R;RGB, G, B, font size;FONT, font name, Code;LABELCODES, Tooltip;LABELALIGNMENT
L55,583,15,125,38,255,255,255,19,"Arial","REMAININGTRACKTIME","RIGHT"
L03,92,15,480,38,255,255,255,19,"Trebuchet MS","CUSTOMFDROAD>>customfdmanfull>>TRACKNUMBER||=- ||TRACKNAME","Scroll Left"
/, B, x, y, w, h, Command;COMMANDCODES, Tooltip
B,723,301,75,73,"Switchlabel;2",@RELOADLIST@
B,1,523,75,74,"SENDMSG;FreeDrive;home",home"
B,724,450,75,79,"SENDMSG;FreeDrive;history","History"
B,1,225,75,75,"SENDMSG;FreeDrive;CLEAR","CLEAR",
B,1,150,75,73,"SENDMSG;FreeDrive;poi",@SENDMSG;FreeDrive;favorites@
B,2,77,75,69,"SENDMSG;FreeDrive;viewtoggle","views"
B,0,3,77,70,"SENDMSG;FreeDrive;address",@SENDMSG;FreeDrive;favorites@
B,726,532,71,66,"SENDMSG;FreeDrive;Mapsize",Fullscreen"
B,1,374,75,76,"SENDMSG;FreeDrive;ZOOM:+20",
B,723,227,88,75,"PREV",""
B,723,82,75,67,"NEXT",""
B,1,450,75,72,"SENDMSG;FreeDrive;menu","Menu"
B,725,-1,71,79,"MAIN",""
B,723,150,100,75,"PLAY",@STOP@
B,723,373,75,77,"gaspricefinder",""
B,1,301,75,75,"SENDMSG;FreeDrive;ZOOM:-20",""
/, A, x, y, w, h, color R;RGB, G, B
A,78,66,647,534,

END

Please note that I have reused the IGuidance music skin and some of the code doesn't exactly match the buttons but this was just a quick workaround for me to play with (the most confusing being the home button in the lower left now sets FD to navigate to your home and the return button in the top right get you out of FD back to your previous DFX screen). Secondly, I added code to swap the label at the top between your music trackname/current location/destination address whenever you hit the "Auto Config" button. Also note press and hold items.

kbreeden · 01-18-2007, 04:00 PM

John,

I'm wondering if there's a reason you didn't include the album tag info with the song and artist info in the scroll bar at the top of the music playlist, music browser, minimized GPS and launch skins. It seems like it should be there, especially because in most of those skins the album art isn't visible. It's no big deal if you have a reason because I can edit the skins manually, but I thought I'd point it out in case it was an oversight.

Also, I thought I'd remind you that you're using a different font at the top of menu 2, which has been previously mentioned, and let you know that you're also using a different font at the top of the minimized GPS skin, which I don't think anybody has yet mentioned.

che420 · 01-19-2007, 12:41 AM

couple of samples that are almost done.

che420 · 01-19-2007, 12:43 AM

should be done in an hour or so....sooo sooo many screens.

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