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

[UNOPARATOR]

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

I don't how to call it. It scrolls fine for 50px then jumps back 10px, then scroll again and it doesn't feel smooth...

 

[SilentException]

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

I'm sorry to say edsche but the latest update is not working OK here.

* upon opening mediaportal the #infoservice.feeds.titles is set to: "Wait until the other Services has finished", same as twitter property. (time stamp 10:11 in the log)
* when opening the plugin feeds window, the list is empty, if i click select feed, nothing happens, when i click show all feeds, titles property is set to empty. (time stamp 10:16 in the log)
* if i click refresh, it loads the feeds. (time stamp 10:18 in the log)

hope you can take a look thanks!

 

[joz]

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

I don't how to call it. It scrolls fine for 50px then jumps back 10px, then scroll again and it doesn't feel smooth...

Sometimes increasing horizontal scroll speed also works a bit (sometimes) for this problem. A speed of 1 can be problematic, everything higher is usually better, for me 3 is the best, no jumping and not too fast.

 

[UNOPARATOR]

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

I don't how to call it. It scrolls fine for 50px then jumps back 10px, then scroll again and it doesn't feel smooth...

Sometimes increasing horizontal scroll speed also works a bit (sometimes) for this problem. A speed of 1 can be problematic, everything higher is usually better, for me 3 is the best, no jumping and not too fast.

Where do I set that? In skin file or InfoService config?

 

[edsche]

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

I don't how to call it. It scrolls fine for 50px then jumps back 10px, then scroll again and it doesn't feel smooth...

Sometimes increasing horizontal scroll speed also works a bit (sometimes) for this problem. A speed of 1 can be problematic, everything higher is usually better, for me 3 is the best, no jumping and not too fast.

Where do I set that? In skin file or InfoService config?

MediaPortal Config -> General -> Skin


Once again I've updated InfoService. Download should now be ok. Before, it worked only if all services were enabled. Now thats fixed. Also i've added the property #infoservice.feed.isalltitles. Hope it works now as expected

 

[SilentException]

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

hey edsche, i've made a couple of changes in the plugin and here is a patch file for you

Data/FeedItem.cs and Feed.cs:
* trimmed author, title, description, url

FeedUtils.cs:
* creation of mixedfeedline didn't trim all of the separator at the end of the line
* SetFeedOnWindow also sets #infoservice.feed.img. that means that skinners that use #infoservice.feed.titles and show #infoservice.feed.img on the home screens should check if String.Equals(#infoservice.feed.isalltitles,false/true) for image control. and make a new one depending if all titles is shown or not. i have done it this way:

		<control>
			<description>RSS default image</description>
			<type>image</type>
			<id>11117</id>
			<posX>0</posX>
			<posY>0</posY>
			<width>80</width>
			<height>80</height>
			<keepaspectratio>yes</keepaspectratio>
			<texture>InfoService\defaultTop.png</texture> <!-- default image when all titles is visible -->
			<visible>Plugin.IsEnabled(InfoService)+String.Equals(#infoservice.feed.isalltitles,true)</visible>
		</control>
		<control>
			<description>RSS image - InfoService</description>
			<type>image</type>
			<id>11118</id>
			<posX>0</posX>
			<posY>0</posY>
			<width>120</width>
			<height>80</height>
			<keepaspectratio>yes</keepaspectratio>
			<texture>#infoservice.feed.img</texture> <!-- image when the feed is selected -->
			<visible>Plugin.IsEnabled(InfoService)+String.Equals(#infoservice.feed.isalltitles,false)</visible>
		</control>

I was thinking, maybe it would be good to implement settings from InfoService.SkinSettings.xml. Settings like if feed item age is shown or start with all feeds, separators and such..

 

[edsche]

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

* SetFeedOnWindow also sets #infoservice.feed.img. that means that skinners that use #infoservice.feed.titles and show #infoservice.feed.img on the home screens should check if String.Equals(#infoservice.feed.isalltitles,false/true) for image control. and make a new one depending if all titles is shown or not. i have done it this way:

		<control>
			<description>RSS default image</description>
			<type>image</type>
			<id>11117</id>
			<posX>0</posX>
			<posY>0</posY>
			<width>80</width>
			<height>80</height>
			<keepaspectratio>yes</keepaspectratio>
			<texture>InfoService\defaultTop.png</texture> <!-- default image when all titles is visible -->
			<visible>Plugin.IsEnabled(InfoService)+String.Equals(#infoservice.feed.isalltitles,true)</visible>
		</control>
		<control>
			<description>RSS image - InfoService</description>
			<type>image</type>
			<id>11118</id>
			<posX>0</posX>
			<posY>0</posY>
			<width>120</width>
			<height>80</height>
			<keepaspectratio>yes</keepaspectratio>
			<texture>#infoservice.feed.img</texture> <!-- image when the feed is selected -->
			<visible>Plugin.IsEnabled(InfoService)+String.Equals(#infoservice.feed.isalltitles,false)</visible>
		</control>

Mh i think it would be better if InfoSerivce sets a default image for All Titles Ticker by itself, then it would be only one control.

 

[trevor]

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

edsche,

How close is this to release, we are getting close to a StreamedMP release and would be good to include support for this version.

Thanks

 

[edsche]

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

edsche,

How close is this to release, we are getting close to a StreamedMP release and would be good to include support for this version.

Thanks

Mh for me and for some others, i assume (didn't heard a complain for the last build) it runs pretty good at the moment, so i think not far, need to do some skinning, documenting, fix little bugs and some code cleanup.

 

[kiwijunglist]

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

Have you thought about this as an enhancement option:

Most RRS feeds have a link for each news item taking you to the full story.

Instead of displaying the RSS feeds as a ticker, you display each item for 3 seconds as static text (scrolling if the item is longer than the feed width)

In the skin the user can navigate to hover over the RSS feed, pressing enter will load the current news items link in your web browser plugin displaying the full story.

While hover over the RSS feed the user can press a key (eg the arrow keys) to cycle forward/back between news items. That way if I saw a news item he wanted to read but missed the text he can press the left arrow to go back to that item, then press enter to load it into the web browser window.

In the web browser plugin the user can press a button like a home button that takes the user to a selection screen. The selection screen has all the RSS news items and the user can up/down arrow over any of them and press enter to nagivate into that item. If the user has setup multiple RSS feeds, then the first selection item would be to choose a feed, then the 2nd selection item would display the list of all the news items with the option to display the full story by pressing enter.