Cajun-4-Win Source code released!

CRCinAU · 05-29-2004, 04:56 AM

The project is now available at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cajun-4-win/

Does anyone know a good patch management system for Windows? I know most people don't have access to use 'patch' for Linux...

For the moment, if you do have access to 'patch' for Linux, you can submit the patches via SF's site. I'll add them in ASAP.

If there are any people who wish to be developers, then you can apply and I'll approve you ASAP.

frodobaggins · 05-29-2004, 05:22 AM

How do I apply ?

Add me, frodo9fingers

CRCinAU · 05-29-2004, 07:14 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by frodobaggins

How do I apply ?

Add me, frodo9fingers

You should have access now...

mobileh1 · 05-29-2004, 11:18 AM

CRC

What, other than VB do I need to install.

I tried to modify it, but get compile errors on

FrmMain.Player.settings.volume

Method or data member not found.

Do I need the MPlayer SDK installed? If so, do you have a URL for this?

Thanks
PS
Whats wrong with cygwin+diff+patch?

mobileh1 · 05-29-2004, 11:49 AM

One other thing CRC [ I prefer MD5's

],

Why did you pick wmp? There is a winamp COM object that would be just as suitable and it doesn't come with the WMP baggage?

Its your project, so your call, I was just curious.

In true Linux open source tradition I should branch the project and redo it to use Winamp

I found a media platform SDK on my MSDN disc's so im trying that...

mobileh1 · 05-29-2004, 12:01 PM

Turns out I need WMP installed to use it! Well, who would have thought that.

I had to create a VirtualPC to use for this, since I dont want WMP from having its way with my dev system. You might not want to use WMP if you knew all that it does...

mobileh1 · 05-29-2004, 12:17 PM

Ive been hacking around with it and my impressions are:

- the song progress indicator needs to go, replaced with something less scrollbar'ish.
- The selection of tracks is fine with a mouse, but not a touchscreen.
- the top section, the folder selection needs to be redone
- the lower section, song selection needs to be redone, id3 tags, not file name, no scroll bar, but buttons linked to the control
- change settings.dat to an ini file
- support in settings.ini the ability to select colors for fore/background of controls/text, its on thing changing the back image, but the text/control colors need to be controllable otherwise you might not be able to read them.
- The playing song details could do with some sprucing up a little, I dont know yet, im playing with using some LED-like font, might look like crap, but I'll see.
- Need random play.
- Needs playlist support. It might already have this, I dont know much about WMP, so I may have missed it.
- I like the left margin thing, but its realestate that could be used for something more productive

frodobaggins · 05-29-2004, 01:44 PM

Gave you some ini stuff.

Frodo

wizardPC · 05-29-2004, 01:47 PM

I wholeheartedly agree with the features that mobileh1 suggested, especially the ID3 tags and playlist support. Cosmetics and aesthetics you can worry less about, since it's now open source, but for a final release it would be a good idea.

I was actually working on trying to develop my own player last night, and I came accross this site with code to retrieve ID3 tags:
http://www.devx.com/vb2themax/Tip/19277

mobileh1 · 05-29-2004, 02:08 PM

Thats cool Wizard, since I haven't used VB for years. Looks about the same though. Its seems perfect for this kind of application.

I will add the mp3 support.

mobileh1 · 05-29-2004, 02:11 PM

I even thought about switching to the brushed metal skin and working back from that, supporting it in Cajun, build MC again so this time we have the source.

Anyone else have any thoughts about the winamp vs wmp?

If nobody cares I'll stick to WMP, otherwise my first task on Cajun is to get rid of wmp and use winamp under the hood.

wizardPC · 05-29-2004, 05:25 PM

I prefer WMP, because (in my experience) winamp skips if you open other programs

CRCinAU · 05-29-2004, 09:31 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by mobileh1

CRC

What, other than VB do I need to install.

I tried to modify it, but get compile errors on

FrmMain.Player.settings.volume

Method or data member not found.

Do I need the MPlayer SDK installed? If so, do you have a URL for this?

Thanks
PS
Whats wrong with cygwin+diff+patch?

you shouldnt need anything else except VB6 and Windows media player v9 installed...

i have access to patch on linux, so if you want to do it that way, then great... if not, then we'll work something else out...

CRCinAU · 05-29-2004, 09:40 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by mobileh1

I even thought about switching to the brushed metal skin and working back from that, supporting it in Cajun, build MC again so this time we have the source.

Anyone else have any thoughts about the winamp vs wmp?

If nobody cares I'll stick to WMP, otherwise my first task on Cajun is to get rid of wmp and use winamp under the hood.

I used WMP as it's there, and I've coded with it before... My main aim is to get gapless playback between MP3 files... if this means changing the decoder/player then so be it... If we have to decode ourselves (via a DLL) then it's over my head for the moment, but I'm sure someone will know how

CRCinAU · 05-29-2004, 10:05 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by frodobaggins

Gave you some ini stuff.

Frodo

Done and updated on SF as v0.1.0.19....

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