JJZolx wrote: > How would someone customize SqueezeOS to support such a display and user > interface? Would it simply be an application running at the OS level and > communicating with LMS via the CLI? Or is there some support for Lua > scripting, as with the Touch?
Jivelite IS a lua interpreter running a stripped down version of the lua code running on the Touch. So it certainly is possible to write an applet that could talk to say a USB interfaced LCD character interface, but that would take somebody to write it, it's not just automatically there as part of the existing implementation. There are a lot of things like this that COULD be done if there is someone interested in writing it. So if someone is really interested in doing this they can do it right now. Buy a USB character display, plug it into the wandboard and look at the lua code already in jivelite for how to access information on what is playing and format that information for the display and send it over the USB port. It would take understanding of the applet framework, which is still available on the web. Fortunately this would not need learning how to use the squeeze widget set for displaying on the squeeze screen, just learning how to display on the character screen. It might be an interesting project to get started in applet programming. If I wasn't rather deep in other aspects of this I would probably take it on. But I'm way to busy right now. Writing things like this are what the whole "community" aspect of this is all about. There are all kinds of other interfaces that can be done this way such as the infamous "relay box to turn on the amp" that several people are interested in. These are all fairly simple things to write once the applet framework is understood. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98544 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
