MPBlue PPC client release 0.0.4 (2 Viewers)

[Bram]

Great, thnx for the explenation.

 

[Flipit]

Mr S.

Spoke to soon, looks like something more then just a recomplie. I think the playplaylist() is not getting called by the thread message, just a guess as I can't debug the server.

Anyway i had to add some events to the mpbElement to support my first listbox attempt (up and down buttons with an event action passed into the the listbox class), not very clean inside at the moment and a few exception being thrown due complete laziness on my part and lack of time. ( V similar to Scrappys TV one in 0.0.1)

Interested to see what you've done. Maybe easier for me to shoehorn my listbox.. Was thinking about a custom treeview... still thinking...

 

[MrSensitive]

Flip,

I thought so.. i did a recompile too without working.. lack of time has stopped me looking into this..

generally I'm not too fond of events in the controls.. it makes creating a transparent system that allows all user actions to be described in XML difficult..

the way I see it, would be that a hit test is executed on a element, if the specific element has child elements (ie, a listbox has listitems, a treeview has treenodes) the childelement is returned.
I can then check the actions bound to this element, and execute them...
but, this is not proven yet..

let me try and get the server running for RC4 first..

regards..

 

[kosh]

What would be really ideal (although I lack the understanding to see if it's possible) is if a common plugin could be developed that could be adapted to either (or any) htpc. In other words, the base of the program would be universal, but there would meedio files or media portal files, or people could even make addons for sage or snapstream, that allow the plugin to work with that program.

Basically the difference would be incoming (databases) and outgoing commands, which hopefully can be discrete dll files whatever.

Anyway, outside of my competency, but it would be nice to have some cross platform ability since that adds to the expertiese of the product.

I agree. My client is in itself not dependent on Meedio at all. It just received, displays and sends data back to the server/plugin where the data is just text. The "server" could easily be changed to support other HTPC's.

MrSensitive: How is the image quality in your app on PDA? All images I use look quite shitty compared to in Windows. The quality is even better when displaying the image using the picture browser on my Axim than in the application.

 

[Bram]

On my PDA it looks great! Nice and shiny

 

[ZetaVu]

Are you talking about images like album art or images like icons, I don't think mpblue shows album art yet. The icons are whatever you make them, and I see no substansive difference between pc and ppc

 

[Mutly]

Gidday, thought I would give this cool sounding app a go. Here's how it has gone so far:

Device: iPaq hx4700 PPC2003 Wifi
MP Ver: 0.2 RC4

Running client app first time gives following error:

TypeLoadException
Could not load type
System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker from assembly BackgroundWorker, Version=1.0.0.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null

Am running CF 2.0 (required for other apps). Would this be the issue? Can CF 1 SP3 coexist?

 

[MrSensitive]

I think it is CF2.0...

I was developing in VS2003 (CF1.0) and a backgroundworker did not exixst there, so I found an alternate on the web.

now, since you are using CF2.0, the includen backgroundworker is probably interfering..

I'm doing the switch to CF2.0 now, expect a new version in the (near, hopefully) future...

also, 0.2RC4 is not yet supported..

 

[Mutly]

Thanks Mr. S.

I will stand by for future development. Looks fantastic so far. Well done to you and the other developers.

 

[ZetaVu]

How goes it on the update, fixing database and rc4 support? Looking forward to testing.