Update: December 1st 2008, updated this post to latest version of plugin
I really liked the rss feed by JakeyMouse. Unfortunatly this wasn't implemented as a seperate plugin. So i started work on a standalone version of a rss ticker and here is what i came up with.
I created a proces plugin, configurable through MP Setup, that would simply fill a Control on screen with aggregated items from a specified feed. This control can be whatever you like, a label, fadelabel, textboxscrollup, etc... Wherever you use #rssfeed in your skinfile, the plugin fills it with the rss items.
Installation:
Download latest version and extract to {your MP directory}\plugins\process\.
Configuration:
Go to MP Configuration->Plugins->Process plugins->MP-RSSTicker and select Config.
The following settings are available
RSS Ticker settings
RSS Ticker enabled: Wether or not the ticker is enabled
Feed: The url of the feed to display
Image: The path of a descriptive image for the feed. A logo for example.
#Items: The number of items from the feed to display
separator: The character sequence to display between headlines.
Auto refresh enabled: Auto refresh feed
Refresh interval (min): Refresh feed every x minutes
Weather settings
Important: For the weather to work you need to configure the Weather plugin correctly
Weather enabled: Wether or not the weather info is enabled
Auto refresh enabled: Auto refresh weather info
Refresh interval (min): Refresh weather info every x minutes
To use the feed information in your skin files you can use the following definitions:
#rssfeed to show the feed items
#rssimg the path to the selected image
#weatherimg the path to the weather image
#location location(City) the weather information applies to. e.g. Amsterdam
#temp the temperature.
#condition the condition. e.g. Fog
These can be used seperately but to keep the length of this post limited are used in a single label
Sambal
I really liked the rss feed by JakeyMouse. Unfortunatly this wasn't implemented as a seperate plugin. So i started work on a standalone version of a rss ticker and here is what i came up with.
I created a proces plugin, configurable through MP Setup, that would simply fill a Control on screen with aggregated items from a specified feed. This control can be whatever you like, a label, fadelabel, textboxscrollup, etc... Wherever you use #rssfeed in your skinfile, the plugin fills it with the rss items.
Installation:
Download latest version and extract to {your MP directory}\plugins\process\.
Configuration:
Go to MP Configuration->Plugins->Process plugins->MP-RSSTicker and select Config.
The following settings are available
RSS Ticker settings
RSS Ticker enabled: Wether or not the ticker is enabled
Feed: The url of the feed to display
Image: The path of a descriptive image for the feed. A logo for example.
#Items: The number of items from the feed to display
separator: The character sequence to display between headlines.
Auto refresh enabled: Auto refresh feed
Refresh interval (min): Refresh feed every x minutes
Weather settings
Important: For the weather to work you need to configure the Weather plugin correctly
Weather enabled: Wether or not the weather info is enabled
Auto refresh enabled: Auto refresh weather info
Refresh interval (min): Refresh weather info every x minutes
To use the feed information in your skin files you can use the following definitions:
#rssfeed to show the feed items
Code:
<control><description>RSS items</description>
<type>fadelabel</type>
<id>1</id>
<posX>155</posX>
<posY>628</posY>
<width>1200</width>
<height>50</height>
<font>font14</font>
<label>#rssfeed</label>
</control>
#rssimg the path to the selected image
Code:
<control><description>RSS image</description>
<type>image</type>
<id>3</id>
<posX>0</posX>
<posY>625</posY>
<width>140</width>
<height>35</height>
<keepaspectratio>no</keepaspectratio>
<texture>#rssimg</texture>
</control>
#weatherimg the path to the weather image
Code:
<control>
<description>Weather image</description>
<type>image</type>
<id>1</id>
<posY>10</posY>
<posX>10</posX>
<texture>#weatherimg</texture>
</control>
#location location(City) the weather information applies to. e.g. Amsterdam
#temp the temperature.
#condition the condition. e.g. Fog
These can be used seperately but to keep the length of this post limited are used in a single label
Code:
<control>
<description>location</description>
<type>label</type>
<id>1</id>
<width>400</width>
<height>50</height>
<posY>25</posY>
<posX>140</posX>
<font>font14</font>
<label>#location #temp #condition</label>
</control>
Sambal