Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2009-09-12 Thread phosty
Hi, I'm using this plugin with my Squeezebox Boom but the font it uses is too large to get the full time in the window. Is there anyway of setting the clock text size on the Boom smaller? All I get is 'Quarter past..' etc. -- phosty

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-10-31 Thread Blu3IcE
Hy Guys, I tried to install your plugin on my SlimServer 6.3.1 but I failed. Why is this plugin only working with version 6.5? Is there an old version out there which still works with 6.3.1? Thanks in advance... IcE -- Blu3IcE

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-10-31 Thread Michael Herger
I tried to install your plugin on my SlimServer 6.3.1 but I failed. Why is this plugin only working with version 6.5? Because the display control code has changed slightly. Is there an old version out there which still works with 6.3.1? Not that I knew of. Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-13 Thread tommypeters
Yes, conditional loading of screensavers in Saverswitcher sounds like a good idea. I haven't studied the aggressiveness of the mentioned screensavers, different situations could warrant anything from small print, only in off mode to stopping the music playback and spelling it out using

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-12 Thread tommypeters
Michael Herger;186746 Wrote: A verbarious Calendar? Something like early spring or mid march? Too fuzzy for my taste. And Freitag, neunter März Zweitausendundsieben isn't my choice neither :-) My idea was that you could for example have a config file where you simply add a date

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-12 Thread Robin Bowes
gonk wrote: Robin Bowes;187187 Wrote: gonk wrote: After long discussions with my wife, who is a English teacher Obviously, you're not **an** English teacher. :) R. Hmmm... You're right... I hope she doesn't read my posts... ;) Bad boy. Write me 100 lines: I must learn to use the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-12 Thread Michael Herger
I took the liberty of making a small correction to the plugin. PLUGIN_DATETIMETEXT_10H in the german translation was set to DE Neun. This has to be DE Zehn to show the correct hour at this time. Ahmm who did that translation first :-). I hope to be uploading a first version of a slightly

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-12 Thread Michael Herger
It would ideally just be an addon to the Verbarious Clock/TimeSpeller, not a plugin of its own, since it should maybe only kick in once ore twice/month. I'm not so sure about this. Currently there's no handler for dates, just hours and minutes. It's not a alarm clock style plugin. Your

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-12 Thread tommypeters
Michael Herger;187280 Wrote: It would ideally just be an addon to the Verbarious Clock/TimeSpeller, not a plugin of its own, since it should maybe only kick in once ore twice/month. I'm not so sure about this. Currently there's no handler for dates, just hours and minutes. It's not

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-12 Thread Michael Herger
Such a calendar plugin would need SaverSwitcher to ever be used, I thought it would be better as an addon to this plugin. But maybe I was wrong. From a technical point of view (which is important to guess the feasibility) it's two completely different use cases. TimeSpeller uses strings

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-12 Thread erland
Michael Herger;187337 Wrote: Such a calendar plugin would need SaverSwitcher to ever be used, I thought it would be better as an addon to this plugin. But maybe I was wrong. From a technical point of view (which is important to guess the feasibility) it's two completely different

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-12 Thread peterw
erland;187348 Wrote: Maybe a plugin similar to SaverSwitcher that could change screen saver based on some external critera would solve this. In this way it would be possible to use the TimeSpeller plugin mostly but when the external criteria was trigged it could change to use the Alarm

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-12 Thread erland
peterw;187390 Wrote: SaverSwitcher could pretty easily support conditional loading of screensavers. It could have a public API that this text reminder plugin could call with code like my $ssVersion = $Plugins::SaverSwitcher::Plugin::apiVersion; if ( defined($ssVersion) ($ssVersion = 2) )

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-11 Thread gonk
After long discussions with my wife, who is a English teacher, and many ideas I (we) came up with the name: TimeSpeller! What do you think? -- gonk Does this unit has a bad motivator? gonk's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-11 Thread Robin Bowes
gonk wrote: After long discussions with my wife, who is a English teacher Obviously, you're not **an** English teacher. :) R. ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-11 Thread peterw
TimeSpeller -- I like it (the name and the plugin). Mikael, I'm glad to you feel encouraged to work on other plugins! -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-09 Thread Michael Herger
Very nice to watch this plug-in grow! Good work. It deserves a good home, which I am sure it will find at Michael's site. Thanks. Would you mind me renaming it? I liked the Fuzzy Time mentioned earlier in this thread. -- Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-09 Thread peterw
Michael Herger;186745 Wrote: Very nice to watch this plug-in grow! Good work. It deserves a good home, which I am sure it will find at Michael's site. Thanks. Would you mind me renaming it? I liked the Fuzzy Time mentioned earlier in this thread. I did not want to name this

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-09 Thread Michael Herger
I did not want to name this FuzzyTime, I wanted to modify this to *work with* FuzzyTime! Oh, didn't see this. I was referring to posting #2 (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32975#2). I'll have a look at your code. -- Michael

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-08 Thread tommypeters
gonk;186387 Wrote: Very nice to watch this plug-in grow! Good work. This has encouraged me to start with my other plug-in ideas I have... A verbarious Calendar? -- tommypeters SB3--Meridian G68--NuForce Ref8--Bc Acoustique ACT A3

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-07 Thread mherger
Gonk, thanks for your plugin. I think it has already found quite a few happy users :-) gonk;183348 Wrote: (This is a very simple plug-in, 99% if the code is taken from the DateTime plugin) Would you allow me giving it a new, constant home? I don't like searching forums for the latest

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-07 Thread erland
mherger;186181 Wrote: Would you allow me giving it a new, constant home? I don't like searching forums for the latest version of a file but prefer having it on a web site. I'd be happy hosting on my site, with your name (and the names of other contributors in this thread) at the top of the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Herger
This plugin is begging for 7.0's use of an external strings.txt file. You can already add a custom-strings.txt to your slimserver's program folder. This will work with almost any slimserver version. -- Michael -

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-05 Thread Amauta
Babelfish did a good job on the translation. I made a very small cosmetic change to the Dutch translation. +---+ |Filename: DateTimeTxt-International.zip| |Download:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-04 Thread Jack Coates
On 3/3/07, mherger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet another update: added dutch translation (thanks Erwin!), fixed issues with SlimServer 6.5. +---+ |Filename: DateTimeTxt-International.zip| |Download:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-04 Thread Browny
Ok - this is now turning into a cool plugin! Kudos to Michael for the International version... I've made one slight amendment to handle the concept of 'Override Values'. This covers values such as Midnight or Midday (in fact they were the only ones I could think of for English). They can be

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-04 Thread peterw
Midday? Is that a British thing? We Yanks say Noon, as in High Noon (cowboy movie reference there). Here's a quick stab at changing to Noon, making it based on the real time (no 2 minute increase -- if you really want the display to read 2 minutes fast, add 120 to all the time() calls, and use

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-03 Thread mherger
Ok, and here's a version which can be localized using strings as any plugin. I've used placeholders %s in the minute strings to tell where the hour should be placed. This allows for automatic Five o'clock and Ten past five display. I've slightly updated the plugin to be in sync with the current

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-03 Thread erland
mherger;185233 Wrote: I've slightly updated the plugin to be in sync with the current DateTime screensaver plus added German translation (DE, EN, SV available). gonk, please verify if the Swedish version is still ok. I am able to check the English, but Swedish... is rather Greek to me :-)

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-03 Thread Michael Herger
The Swedish doesn't work for: 19:25 19:30 It doesn't for German neither. I noticed this half an hour ago ;-). I'll come up with a solution where this behaviour can be configured per language. But in your international version is says: if ($min=35) {$hour=$hour+1}; Yep, I took this from

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-03 Thread mherger
erland;185246 Wrote: The Swedish doesn't work for: 19:25 19:30 Ok, I hope this one is better: the hour correction is now configurable using strings. Similarly to the minutes strings, there are correction strings which are 0 for no correction, or some other value (usually +1 around

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-03-03 Thread mherger
Yet another update: added dutch translation (thanks Erwin!), fixed issues with SlimServer 6.5. +---+ |Filename: DateTimeTxt-International.zip| |Download:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-02-22 Thread kdf
Quoting gonk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Already done this as a screensaver a year ago. Use this for all my four SB2/3. Text yet only available in Swedish though... (It is trying to say: twenty past nine) nifty. If you've made it available for download, and used string tokens in your code, I'm

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Wanted: Verbarius Clock Style plugin

2007-02-21 Thread Jack Coates
On 2/21/07, simply [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all plugin coders... It would be cool if someone here was able to provide us, the community, with a plugin that emulates the not-yet-released Verbarius clock from Art Lebedev (creators of the Optimus keyboard). It displays time with words