Analogue/digital VU

[didbox]

Hello,

Are analogue/digital VU screensavers available for the Touch?

[toby10]

Hello,

Are analogue/digital VU screensavers available for the Touch?

Yes, there are two visualizers via the Now Playing screen.
1. 2 ch VU
2. 2 ch (20 freq p/ch) Spectrum

The meters do function but currently the text (artist/song) and elapsed time (bar and remaining time) are not displaying properly when these visualizers are engaged.

[didbox]

Thank you but what I want is a real screensaver, like in the SB3...

[JohnSwenson]

Thank you but what I want is a real screensaver, like in the SB3...

Correct, right now they are just available as the now playing screen which includes some text and buttons.

It should be fairly easy to take the code for the NP meter screen and rip out the buttons and just leave the meters and package it as a screensaver. It should be a nice "first applet" exercise. Want to try it? :-)

John S.

[didbox]

Correct, right now they are just available as the now playing screen which includes some text and buttons.

It should be fairly easy to take the code for the NP meter screen and rip out the buttons and just leave the meters and package it as a screensaver. It should be a nice "first applet" exercise. Want to try it? :-)

John S.

Hi John,
Yes, but as I don't really have a gift for programming, you risk to have a very strange screensaver...


Thank you!

[erland]

Hi John,
Yes, but as I don't really have a gift for programming, you risk to have a very strange screensaver...

Don't worry, some third party developer will do it eventually, it's just a matter of time.

I have the visualizer stuff on my todo list but I haven't gotten to it yet, it would be great if someone else did because it currently feels pretty lonely on the third party applet development arena.

If you or someone else can draw/design graphics, it would be great if we could get some cool visualizer graphics which those of use who can't draw but know some programming could use.

[Gazjam]

I do that....
maybe its time to give something back.

Whats the pixel resolution on the Touch's screen?
I'll knock up a couple of efforts and post on here..


Gaz.

[erland]

I do that....
maybe its time to give something back.

Whats the pixel resolution on the Touch's screen?
I'll knock up a couple of efforts and post on here..

480x272

The default visualizer looks like this:
http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/jiv...og_25seq_b.png

Or with white background:
http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/jiv...og_25seq_w.png

Use png format on the images.

Make the images for each style as:
1. A background image 480x272
2. A arrow image at a clock position 12:00
3. A long image as those linked above where you have copied the arrow into the background image in all possible positions

I'm not sure yet if the performance will be good enough for the applet to actually rotate image 2 in run time on top of a static background (image 1) or if we need to go with the solution of a single image 3 as the standard visualizer use.

If you create the combined version (image 3) that can be use directly by replacing the standard image with your own version without any developing.

[Gazjam]

Hi Erland..
I'll see what I can come up with.


Gaz.

[jstraw]

I wish the meter graphics could be redesigned so that the pivot point of the needle wasn't six inches below the screen. The effect now is that the needle appears to move laterally more than it appears to pivot.

Is this a graphic I can replace on my own? I'm capable of doing the imaging.