Jimsngc;386377 Wrote: > Guys, > > I finally figured this out although I don't know that I fully > understand what each of the fields is supposed to do here. > > This is what I put in the Player settings for the SDT plugin: > ON/ON > %e %H %j > ________ <*Blank - does not seem to matter > what I put here > %z Rise %s > %1 > PREC %x Set %S > > (Where > means the next box over - sorry not a very good representation > here) > > At first nothing would display on the right hand side but eventually it > began to show. it may simply have been that I was not giving the plugin > enough time to update - I had to wait 30 seconds or so after hitting > Save Settings for the changes to reflect on the player. > > * A question about this field - where should fields included here > display on the player? I was hoping I could force the display on my > SB3 to have 3 Lines on the left and 2 lines on the right but try as I > might I can only get 1 Line on the right of the display? Any ideas on > that? > > Jim
Hi Jim- You should have had default values set to begin with... but regardless let me explain. First yes/no is if you want a weather icon. Second yes/no is if you want the 3line text fields. The 3 vertically stacked fields are what goes in each of the 3lines if you have 3line text enabled. The 3line text uses a small custom font. The next two lines refer to two vertically stacked fields. The plugin will attempt to space these fields so they don't overlap the 3line text. There's a lot of special logic in that. These two lines behave in a manner parallel to other text displays used throughout your squeezebox. Basically if you're using a 2line enabled font you'll see two lines of text. If you hit the size button until you're displaying the large font, then only the bottom of the two text fields will be displayed. However, there are special cases where the plugin will apply special logic to what is displayed when using the large font to make the plugin more useful. Yes, changes to a display setting will be slightly lagged. The plugin waits x seconds whenever a change is made before refreshing its data. This is to allow the user time to make any addition changes to sports, etc. before it goes refreshing the data again. The refreshing process takes some time as web parsing can be processing intensive and since most of SC is single threaded I include some waits to help prevent SC from short freezes. During the refresh process the plugin also 'draws' all the possible icon/3line text screens for all the players and caches them. These draws are done at the pixel level and are also processor intensive. I probably told you more than you wanted to hear... but regardless hope it helps you and others understand... -Greg -- GoCubs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GoCubs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=312 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
