soundcheck wrote: > Ok. Got it. > > I had a customized home-menu with Music Source turned off. Stupid me. > > However. I still have issues. > > 1. If I switch to a server (top menu) that has no players connected the > Home-screen stays blank. > There's no way to assign a player to that screen. > 2. Now the app has server/player handling at four different > positions/menus. > > It would be nice if player to server assignment and sync of players > could be arranged > from e.g. the bottom player menu. > > That bottom menu shows server and assigned players already. > It would be nice if by e.g. a "drag" a player could just be moved to > another server in that list. > Players that are not connected to any server should show up in a third > list as not connected. > > Sync of players could be arranged by marking certain players and e.g a > long tap would sync them. > > This way the "Music Source " and "Managed Player" menus could be > removed. > Only two menus to handle servers/players would be left. > > Just a thought. > > Thx.
Assigning unconnected players to servers is not possible because Squeeze Ctrl does not connect to players directly. All commands from the app are sent to the server which then controls the players. That is how the Squeezebox system works. The core of the app is designed and coded to control one player at a time. This is why the Player Manager is separated from the rest of the app. It is a special case that allows control of multiple players. Bringing that type of control into the main app would require an almost complete rewrite and quite frankly I think its a waste of resources. The ability to control multiple players incurs a lot of overhead. If you have four players certain processing and network activity will have to be done four times. When the vast majority of the time you would really only care about the current player, all that extra work would be a waste. As to the list that shows the servers and the players assigned to them, the app doesn't actually directly know about the players on the other servers. It depends on the currently connect server knowing about the players on the other servers. This in turn depends on the servers on the network talking to each other and exchanging player lists. Because of this, it's actually not a very reliable list. To reliably do the drag and drop you suggest would mean that the app has to connect to every server simultaneously (this is how iPeng does it, according to pippin the developer). Once again it would require a large rewrite and also a little wasteful for something you probably won't do that often. -------------- Squeezebox apps for webOS, Android and Windows Phone, http://www.angrygoatapps.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wt0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18760 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96757 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
