Make sure your sitting down.. !!!

[CdRsKuLL]

I know.. I know.. please dont file a claim against me for banging your head whilst being overcome with the news below.. but its true !















I did some coding on FD today.. yeah honest I did.. I also think its a great addition for those that use RR and are skinners..

You can now as well as have upto 30 buttons in FD which can be programmed to send keys to RR.. ie.. Vol+ Vol- Next Prev.... etc.. You can now display any variable from RR also.. so say you want FD full screen but still want the volume and the trackname showing.. yep this has now been coded in, ready for the next release.

This is quite simple to add to your skins.. below is a example which I've used for testing..

#here you can add upto 30 buttons, even include messages to RR if required
#example b10=0,0,200,50,Sendmsg:RoadRunner:Vol+
b1=0,0,50,50,mapfull

#here you can show variables from other apps. using the sdk request command. (upto 30) The Test Text at the end is so you can play
#with the position of the label without messing about. Once you have it in the right place, just remove it from the .skin
#example show the trackname from RR.. L12=0,0,800,50,2,Arial Narrow:B,22,FFFFFF,00ff00,RoadRunner||TRACKNAME,Te st Text

L1=0,10,800,50,2,Arial Narrow:B,42,FFFFFF,00ff00,RoadRunner||TRACKNAME,Tr ackname goes here
L2=0,40,800,50,2,Arial Narrow:B,42,FFFFFF,00ff00,RoadRunner||VOLUME,100%

You will notice I have added a test text option at the end.. this is so you can test where the label will be without having to embed it in RR everytime. Once you have it in the right position, just remove the text.

The above L1 -> L30 lines go in the [main] section . in the same place where the b1 -> b30 goes..

Attached is a beta of it incase anyone wants to give it a go. The date I attached it is 12 may 06.. so any releases after this will include this.

cheers

CdR

[grave]

My Birthday today ! Thanks for the gift Have a WE to test it.

[ccsnet]

Time for a sit down now CDR .... Much slower we'll have to start calling you Enforcer 2

Big thanks - no rush.... do it when you want.. like any thing PD users have to be prepared to wait - and I for one dont mind.

Terran

PS How come you weren't out in the sun... it was a brill day ...

[grave]

I need help whith that new feature please.

Ok have a good result with your sample Trackname

Now, i want show a variable from fdkey (written in VB6 by Ton)

I can see sample text but when i have no sample text, have no result. What must i do ?

I define a variable perhaps etiquette in fdkey.
I can give to etiquette some values as History, Home, Adress, Poi, and so on .

then i can't have this values in freedrive.

How must i DO ?

[CdRsKuLL]

It all depends if TON coded in the request sdk feature in his app.. I dont he did to be honest as there would have been no need for it.. I may be wrong. He will need to follow the same format as Guino has with RR.. best way would be to just check outs the sdk example that comes with the rr souce code.

CdR

[grave]

Thanks i'am going to download RR sources.

If it works i'am able to replace 9 or 10 buttons by one and command all freedrive only with a powermate.

[techy101]

Just found a pretty major bug CDR. I just got my second screen back from being repaired, and was re-mapping on which screen FD came on. If you map FD onto a second monitor (Both running 800x600) at the location 801, 0 then the map part goes to the correct place, but the skin, menu, everything are missing. It's just the map.

Thanks,
Matthew

[CdRsKuLL]

try.. 801,-1 or 801,1 see if that helps

CdR

[techy101]

Whow, worked like a charm!!!!

Thanks a million!

[MC_Stoo]

Originally Posted by CdRsKuLL

You can now display any variable from RR also.. so say you want FD full screen but still want the volume and the trackname showing.. yep this has now been coded in, ready for the next release.

Great work

Just a small request to add to this... can you make these labels scroll in the same way as they do in RR as most track names can be quite lengthy.

Perhaps have a work with Guino for the relevant code?