MiniDisplay with the new iMon API (1 Viewer)

[shlomiassaf]

Hi guys.

At late September the guys at SoundGraph finally released the iMon API after a lot of pressure from alot of people especially media portal guys (guess its becuase its the most popular)

Anyway, is there a pluging in development for this feature?
The old iMon plugin using MiniDisplay isnt working for most people and since the api existst (with proper documentation) I think it will be the last addition to my set and then I can call it perfect.

Thanks
Shlomi

 

[Spragleknas]

Hm.... After reading on SG's forum (SoundGraph Software API - Soundgraph Forums), I can't find much. Could you please provide some links to the API and docs?

 

[shlomiassaf]

Hi,

Here it is.
iMON Display API - Soundgraph Forums

It is vs 2008 I think.

 

[1stdead]

Yes api for VFD. But none will spend more time on it before they release they remote api as well.

So still a no go..


and as always no eta from soundgraph.

 

[Spragleknas]

1stdead's comments is spot on, if you ask me.

/me sees chemelli reading thread

 

[1stdead]

Haha he's in a hurry. I just ask him quick on irc and responded for him here

 

[shlomiassaf]

Well

I found a solution anyway, the 7.6 or 7.77 version of iMon dosent support unicode so I patched the MiniDisplayLibrary.dll and now whenever a string comes it goes through a function which checks the unicode values of the chars and if so replaces the order so RTL language disply currectly.

Shame I had to do that on IL, the source code on the SVN is ment for 1.2 only, 1.1.2 wont load a complied MinDisplayLib.DLL from the 1.2 SVN.

Then I edited the custom Font and now all is great! working perfectly and frankly I dont see any use for the new API (for me)
Once 1.2 will work with StreamedMP and will be official I will add the code to the c# source and we might even add an XML setting to RTL lines if a preset % of the chars is within a given Unicode value then go RTL

 

[FreakyJ]

AW: MiniDisplay with the new iMon API

I just found this thread and hoped to find something about the API...
The API seems to be pretty simple:
http://download.soundgraph.com/path/API/iMON_Display_API_1_00_0929.pdf

But the source of the MiniDisplayPlugin is confusing me.. I can't find anything in the docs how to add a new driver and from what I can see/understand in the source I have to derivate my new driver from "IDisplay.cs" and "BaseDisplay.cs", but how to implement it correctly?! Does anyone know a kind of document where I can find all relevant infos for adding a new driver to MiniDisplay?
Further more, why should we wait for the remote API?! MP is working perfectly with the IMon Pad over key mappings, the only thing which doesn't work probably is the display it self and I don't want to use a old driver if there is a newer one with improvements/less bugs. Another point is that the Remote API is a kind of stand alone and has nothing to do with the display API...

Thanks in advance