Hi Phillippe What command do you use to uninstall the systemwide version, so you don't uninstall the necessary dependent packages?
Best Regards, Kristian Lippert > Subject: Re: [Elisa] My weekly cry for help:-) How to put image in player > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:15:07 +0100 > > When I do development I always uninstall a system-wide version of the > software. > > And there's this bug too: > > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/elisa/+bug/255739 > > Philippe > > Le mardi 17 mars 2009 à 15:56 +0100, Olivier Tilloy a écrit : > > Kristian Lippert a écrit : > > > Hi > > > I have elisa plugins in > > > ~/development/elisa/elisa-current (development branch) > > > and > > > in the root file system (official install) > > > + > > > i have my own plugin in > > > ~/development/elisa/elisa-myplugin > > > > So you don't have any plugin in ~/.elisa-0.5/plugins/ ? > > > > If you are running elisa from a development branch in > > ~/development/elisa/elisa-current, then only the plugins in > > ~/development/elisa/elisa-current and those in ~/.elisa-0.5/plugins/ > > should be used. The official install should not be taken into account in > > this case. > > > > > > > How does this map to what you say? > > > So if I remove your stuff from ~/home/development/elisa-current > > > where should I code then? > > > > You shouldn't do that, what I meant is only removing all eggs from > > ~/.elisa-0.5/plugins/. > > > > > Best Regards, > > > Kristian > > > > > >> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:35:21 +0100 > > >> From: [email protected] > > >> To: [email protected] > > >> CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > > >> Subject: Re: [Elisa] My weekly cry for help:-) How to put image in player > > >> > > >> Kristian Lippert a écrit : > > >> > Hi Olivier > > >> > I will go for the public method version, but I cannot debug the > > >> > application as mentioned earlier. It seems a bit strange ??? > > >> > Could you help on that? > > >> > > >> Yes, I think I can :) > > >> The plugin loaded will be the most recent version, with priority given > > >> to plugins in ~/.elisa-0.5/plugins/. > > >> So if you have plugin poblesec 0.8 in your development branch and in > > >> ~/.elisa-0.5/plugins/, the latter will be used. To work around that, > > >> just remove all plugins in ~/.elisa-0.5/plugins/. > > >> > > >> > Best Regards, > > >> > Kristian > > >> > > > >> >> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:07:34 +0100 > > >> >> From: [email protected] > > >> >> To: [email protected] > > >> >> CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > > >> >> Subject: Re: [Elisa] My weekly cry for help:-) How to put image in > > > player > > >> >> > > >> >> Hi Kristian, > > >> >> > > >> >> I got confronted to the same problem some time ago when writing a > > > plugin > > >> >> for a webradio. With only one stream, the artwork is never going to > > >> >> change even if some new metadata is available from the plugin. Well > > >> >> not > > >> >> without a lot of dirty hacks anyway. > > >> >> > > >> >> One quick and relatively easy change to the player I would suggest is > > >> >> a > > >> >> set of public method for setting (getting as well?) the current > > > metadata > > >> >> as displayed by the OSD. That would allow external plugins to easily > > >> >> interact with the player. I'm mentioning the OSD but of course that > > >> >> could be extended to the background image of the player, if that's > > >> >> what > > >> >> you need. This kind of change shouldn't require too much work and > > > remain > > >> >> relatively safe. > > >> >> > > >> >> I hope this helps. > > >> >> > > >> >> Olivier > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> Kristian Lippert a écrit : > > >> >> > Hi Guillaume > > >> >> > I had a feeling that it was going in that direction :-( - > > >> >> > > > >> >> > So - I had a quick glance at _player_status_cb() > > >> >> > It looks like a lot logic is bound to types (models) already known > > >> > by elisa. > > >> >> > If we want to refactor this the model for the plugin must either > > > inherit > > >> >> > from a well-defined class that knows about covers/images or do > > > some sort > > >> >> > of "duck-typing" (taste the present model and see if it has some > > > sort of > > >> >> > attribute resembling an image/cover. > > >> >> > The first will affect a lot of existing code, while the second > > > will be a > > >> >> > extra clause (simple I hope - but I might have misunderstood > > > something) > > >> >> > > > >> >> > I tried to put a pdb.set_trace() in _player_status_cb() to how it > > >> >> > behaves in the database-plugin-case and in my custom-plugin-case > > > - but > > >> >> > it does not seem to affect the program execution > > >> >> > I have a development version (0.5.29 + 0.5.31) and the official > > > release > > >> >> > (0.5.27 + 0.5.31) installed on my ubuntu 8.10 > > >> >> > I tried to put the set_trace both places but nothing happened. > > >> >> > > > >> >> > Removing > > >> >> > > > > /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/elisa/plugins/poblesec/player_video.pyc > > >> >> > will not generate a new pyc-file when running elisa and it is the > > > only > > >> >> > player_video.pyc file I could find on my Ubuntu-box > > >> >> > > > >> >> > Is there another binary version of the files in my filesystem in > > >> >> > some > > >> >> > precompiled-python-files (I do not know much about python) > > >> >> > > > >> >> > Please advice on how to debug (put in a pdb.set_trace()) in the > > >> >> > player_video.py-code. > > >> >> > > > >> >> > Best Regards, > > >> >> > Kristian Lippert > > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >> >> >> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:05:40 +0100 > > >> >> >> From: [email protected] > > >> >> >> To: [email protected] > > >> >> >> CC: [email protected] > > >> >> >> Subject: Re: [Elisa] My weekly cry for help:-) How to put image in > > >> > player > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> Hi Kristian, > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> Thanks for your interest in Elisa, and on hacking for Elisa! > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> I'm very sorry nobody has answered that question yet, but the > > > thing is: > > >> >> >> it's a tricky one. > > >> >> >> The problem is that the present architecture of the player does not > > >> >> >> allow for a lot of control from plugins. For now, the displaying of > > >> >> >> these images, as well as a lot of other things that should be > > > specific > > >> >> >> to some plugins, is handled entirely in the player. > > >> >> >> To make it possible to put an image in the background of the player > > >> > from > > >> >> >> a plugin, we would need to do quite some refactoring work in the > > >> >> >> PlayerController (in poblesec/player_video.py; yes, the file is > > > called > > >> >> >> player_video, but that's what's used for music as well), and in > > >> >> >> particualr in its (huge) _player_status_cb() method. I don't know > > >> >> >> if > > >> >> >> anyone has planned to do such a thing, but reworking the player is > > >> >> >> definitely something we should do sooner than later, right now, > > >> >> >> it's > > >> >> >> next to properly interact with it from a plugin... > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> So, in a nutshell, if you haven't figured out how to do it, and if > > >> >> >> nobody was able to tell you how to do it, that's simply because > > >> > it's not > > >> >> >> possible. > > >> >> >> Of course, if you have time to spend working on that (non > > > trivial) task > > >> >> >> of refactoring the player, we would be happy to advise you and to > > >> > review > > >> >> >> a patch. > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> Guillaume > > >> >> >> > > >> >> >> On 21:44 Thu 12 Mar , Kristian Lippert wrote: > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > Hi > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > Here is my weekly cry for help: > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > I still havn't figured out how to put an image in the player when > > >> >> > using a custom plugin > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > Could any with knowledge of the player or the database plugin > > > please > > >> >> > help me! > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > At least point me to some code I can look at. > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > Best Regards, > > >> >> >> > > > >> >> >> > Kristian Lippert _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. 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