*ORIGINAL THREAD* InfoService v1.6 - Feed reader/Twitter reader and weather (4 Viewers)

[edsche]

Re: InfoService v1.32 - 5 day weather/Feeds/Twitter on basic home [04-01-2010] *PLANN

I don't have twitter enabled.

Simone

Did you pressed the refresh button in the feed window? If yes, it will also try to update twitter, also if it's disabled (of course this is a bug). This happens only if you manually update the feeds. Auto update should not be affected. But it's safe to ignore that message.

 

[chemelli]

Re: InfoService v1.32 - 5 day weather/Feeds/Twitter on basic home [04-01-2010] *PLANN

Yup, refreshed manually

Simone

 

[edsche]

Re: InfoService v1.32 - 5 day weather/Feeds/Twitter on basic home [04-01-2010] *PLANN

ok, now it starts fine.

#infoservice.feed.titles is filled with news from all feeds,
#infoservice.feed.img is filled with "defaultFeedRSS". that's the default image for all feeds, right?

If all feeds ticker is set, the default feed image is defaultFeedRSS. But it's no problem to use a defaultFeedALL.jpg image or something.

upon opening the feeds window,

#infoservice.feed.img is filled with defaultFeedRDF (MediaPortal feed is RDF) but that doesn't show in the logs
#infoservice.feed.titles is not changed
and i get listbox facade empty (no items) and none of the properties for the textbox are filled either, i have to select the feed and then it's ok.

If all feeds are shown on the basichome screen and you'll go to the infoservice feed screen, then the last activated feed (the active feed before changing to all feeds) will be shown. BUT the all feeds ticker will stay on basichome. The basichome ticker will only be changed, if you select a new feed in the menu. I think this is the best way to handle this all feeds ticker, because it isn't handled as a feed.
But i thought it would be good to handle the all feeds ticker as a own feed, so it would be in the feed list and could be also shown in the infoservice feed gui.

The listbox bug was a tricky thing but found a much better solution to fill the listbox. Anyway it works now

what i would also like to have is ShowAllFeedsTickerOnStartup exported as property #infoservice.feed.isalltitles ('yes','no' or similar)

I will add that

also, your internal property ShowAllFeedsTickerOnStartup should not be set to false if it was set to true until user manually selects the feed.

The ShowAllFeedsTickerOnStartup variable reflects only the config setting nothing more. On plugin init the ShowAllFeedsTickerOnStartup variable will be filled with the right setting from the config. I set it to false (not in the config, only internal) after the first time, because this setting should only used one time after mp startup.

At the moment the source control of codeplex is down. As soon as the source control is online i will upload a new version.

Thanky for your detailed bug report

 

[SilentException]

Re: InfoService v1.32 - 5 day weather/Feeds/Twitter on basic home [04-01-2010] *PLANN

edsche, thanks for the fixes! is the new version available for download? i saw you changed the source but i don't see new compiled version

 

[edsche]

Re: InfoService v1.32 - 5 day weather/Feeds/Twitter on basic home [04-01-2010] *PLANN

nope i haven't uploaded a compiled version. i want to integrate the automatic weather change thing which pilehave mentioned before. don't know if i have the time for that today, but anyway i will upload a new compiled version tonight with or without the feature

btw: i've readded the infoservice.xml because it's used for the menu where you select which window to open (twitter or feed). if there is no infoservice.xml, the background of the menu would be just black with the skin missing error behind the menu.

 

[edsche]

Re: InfoService v1.32 - 5 day weather/Feeds/Twitter on basic home [04-01-2010] *PLANN

Like i said here is a new beta. I did some heavy changes to the update (Feed, Twitter and Weather) algorithm, so hopefully it will still work for all (I did only one test here, I'm too tired now ).

The automatic weather change detection is implemented, but i don't know if keep that. It's only a workaround. Anyway it works for me.

Good night

Edit: Argh, sry SilentExcept, forgot to add your property #infoservice.feed.isalltitles. I will add that as soon as possible Btw: Do you mean to set this property to yes if the all feeds ticker is set (Button "Show all feeds on home" in the Feed GUI)? Because here

what i would also like to have is ShowAllFeedsTickerOnStartup exported as property #infoservice.feed.isalltitles ('yes','no' or similar)

you refer to the ShowAllFeedsTickerOnStartup value (Which is only the config setting you wanted).

 

[SilentException]

Re: InfoService v1.32 - 5 day weather/Feeds/Twitter on basic home [04-01-2010] *PLANN

thanks, i'll test the new version tomorrow

i thought you have a variable in the plugin that is set to true when #infoservice.feed.titles is showing all feeds and false otherwise (when showing chosen feed). it would be nice to have that kind of info available.

 

[UNOPARATOR]

Re: InfoService v1.32 - 5 day weather/Feeds/Twitter on basic home [04-01-2010] *PLANN

Any ideas why the scrolling feeds on Home screen might scroll choppy every few seconds? I'm using Black Glass v2.2.0 skin, InfoService v1.32 with MP v1.1.0_BETA-1_rev23491...

 

[joz]

Re: InfoService v1.32 - 5 day weather/Feeds/Twitter on basic home [04-01-2010] *PLANN

Choppy or flickering?
If it's flickering it could be the fadelabel being @ a position < 20 posx. That makes fadelabels flicker.

 

[edsche]

Re: InfoService v1.32 - 5 day weather/Feeds/Twitter on basic home [04-01-2010] *PLANN

Any ideas why the scrolling feeds on Home screen might scroll choppy every few seconds? I'm using Black Glass v2.2.0 skin, InfoService v1.32 with MP v1.1.0_BETA-1_rev23491...

This is normal. I haven't seen a fadelabel unchoppy, also with the old rss ticker. This might be a problem of mediaportal. Cannot fix this, because InfoService does not draw the ticker. It sets only the feed ticker text for mediaportal. Drawing is done by mediaportal itself.