Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

[GoCubs]

After waiting to post this for months, SuperDateTime 5.6.0 is now available for download.

It includes enhancements specifically added to make the most out of Boom's smaller screen and different fonts.

Display settings are now configurable at the player level.

Internally there's a good amount of display-related changes. Please let me know if you experience any oddities.

Make sure you configure the plugin at both the server and player levels.

For those of you configuring for Boom, for best results I recommend disabling the weather icon and setting the display for ticker mode.

www.gregbrown.net

Thanks
-Greg

[Frorsteig]

I've noticed that after updating to SC 7.2 that the display for both 5.5.2 (after editing the install.xml to change max version) and 5.6.0 seem to overlay the weather icon and the temperature.

I deleted both the folder and prefs for SDT and placed a new folder in /var/lib/squeezecenter /plugins but that didn't seem to change anything.

Didn't see any problems with SDT in the log file (except when there was a version issue)

I have been using %2 (first line) and %t %1 (second line) with icon on.

Using an SB3 with SC 7.2 server running under Ubuntu 6.06

[Howard Passman]

After waiting to post this for months, SuperDateTime 5.6.0 is now available for download.

It includes enhancements specifically added to make the most out of Boom's smaller screen and different fonts.

Display settings are now configurable at the player level.

Internally there's a good amount of display-related changes. Please let me know if you experience any oddities.

Make sure you configure the plugin at both the server and player levels.

For those of you configuring for Boom, for best results I recommend disabling the weather icon and setting the display for ticker mode.

www.gregbrown.net

Thanks
-Greg

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, thank-you, thank-you, thank-YOU

Howard

[GoCubs]

I've noticed that after updating to SC 7.2 that the display for both 5.5.2 (after editing the install.xml to change max version) and 5.6.0 seem to overlay the weather icon and the temperature.

I deleted both the folder and prefs for SDT and placed a new folder in /var/lib/squeezecenter /plugins but that didn't seem to change anything.

Didn't see any problems with SDT in the log file (except when there was a version issue)

I have been using %2 (first line) and %t %1 (second line) with icon on.

Using an SB3 with SC 7.2 server running under Ubuntu 6.06

Exactly what font are you using? Could you please attach your SDT pref file and ideally a camera shot of the display.

Slim made some display / font changes to support Boom, some of which MAY have made it into the 7.1 code that may have started impacting things with 7.1 and continue with 7.2. The plugin used to use spaces to position the temp text after the icon and 3line stuff. Unfortunately the width of the space character now varies between fonts so I had to create my own custom space character. As such, make sure you overwrite ALL the BMP files when installing, regardless of if you display sport scores.

-Greg

[jensboe]

Hi Greg.

I got the same problem as Frorsteig at my Transporter.
I'm using the standard font for standby and work.

In pic1 you will see icon and 3-Line activated - the body text moves to the left. The 2nd display (pic2) is ok.
If you deactivate Icon and 3-Line, then the body text is ok and at the possition it should be if Icon and 3-Line is active (pic3).
Also attached my prefs file.
SC version: 7.2 - 22900
I hope that helped.

Regards,
Jens

[fstrange]

Hi.

I just upgraded to SC 7.2 and installed SuperDateTime 5.6.0 at the same time.

However i experienced the same problem as the above users. I'm using SC 7.2 with SqueezeBox 3 display.

The problem is that Line 2 and line 3 weather information is left-aligned and displayed on top of the weather icon.

Please fix this bug, since I'm quite content with SuperDateTime screensaver.

Regards, Fredrik.

[Frorsteig]

After I had deleted the SDT folder and the prefs file and copied the folder back, I had the same display as Jen shows in his first picture. I have not changed any fonts that I am aware of.

Attached is a picture of my SB3 with how I typically have it set up showing the overlay. Are the BMP files you are referring to only in the SDT plugin folder?

- Brian

And of course I should say thanks for a fantastic plugin I have been using for a long time

[AmazingLarry]

Same happening here. I can attach a picture but mine is exactly the same as the others having this problem.

The plugin is great, though, thank you!

[whdean]

Today I upgraded to the new SDT 5.6.0.

I first deleted the entire SDT folder from the plugin folder. Installed the new version. Rebooted and all is well - No more overlapping data - running SC 7.2 on Vista Basic on my music server (Dell refurb slimline PC).

Don't know if this helps, but it fixed my overlap problem.

Thanks.

[GoCubs]

For those of you experiencing the overlapping text issue-

I tried every font and the exact same preferences given by someone experiencing the issue. I get the correct behavior on a SB2, SB3, Transporter, and Boom using the same version of SC.

I have a theory that perhaps SC is doing some font caching and it has the old version of the font cached which has a different spacing structure.

Could someone please try the following.

1.) SHUT DOWN Squeeze Center.
2.) Locate your Squeeze Center cache directory. On windows this will be something like:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SqueezeCenter\Cache
Note: On Windows this directory might be 'hidden'
3.) Delete entire contents of Cache directory, INCLUDING any subdirectories.
4.) Restart SqueezeCenter.
5.) See if problem is resolved.
6.) Post results here!!! PLEASE!

If this rectifies the problem I'll go ahead and rename the font file used to force a refresh for everyone.

Thanks
Greg