This sounds interesting, and it sounds like a good candidate for the SaverSwitcher pre-usage check hooks. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33598
1) Set the plugin as, say, the 2nd active screensaver so that every time the When Playing screensavers start to rotate, the plugin would check if there's an upcoming show for that artist. If so, it would display info for that artist. If not, you'd only see your other active screensaver(s). 2) If the user pressed the "2" button to invoke the plugin's screensaver, the plugin could behave differently -- e.g., display the full calendar, not simply upcoming shows for the current artist. 3) The plugin could allow the user to indicate that the plugin should no longer show information about a particular concert (for instance, a show the user cannot attend), to reduce clutter. It's a shame iConcertCal is so tied to iTunes -- it would be nice if it could field ad-hoc queries about individual artists, so that this plugin could query & report on concerts for artists played on Internet Radio streams, Pandora, Rhapsody, etc. Also a shame that it's Mac & Windows only. I wonder if there are web services that could be used to build this sort of info. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40193 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
