Wanting to port SuperDateTime to Touch - need help

[Mike Meyer]

Which one is the home team ?
I currently print them as "<hometeam> <score> @ <awayteam> <score> <gametime>", should it be the other way around ?

Yep, should be the other way around.

Should be awayteam @ hometeam because you read that 'awayteam at hometeam'

Thanks Erland!

[GoCubs]

Which one is the home team ?
I currently print them as "<hometeam> <score> @ <awayteam> <score> <gametime>", should it be the other way around ?

Yes, it should be the other way around. away @ home.

-Greg

[GoCubs]

Looks good Greg. My CollegeHockey plugin should be able to use this design perfectly. Won't be able to test it out until hockey season though. Not sure how I'll use the PGAScores plugin however. There aren't teams involved and what I'm displaying is different (hole number, tee times, winnings). Maybe you could install my PGA plugin for the weekend and see what I'm displaying and see if you have any ideas for me. Or maybe I can still use your design but need to map the params differently (i.e. gameTime = hole number). Any help would be appreciated.

BTW, I installed your Controller screensaver script for Custom Clock and it looks great! Twins scores are scrolling.

Hey Mike-

I'm trying to figure out if another API is necessary for third party plugins to add additional data for Jive-based devices. Currently I provide ways to add custom macros and sport scores. Do I need something else for custom text strings?

For nonJive screens I supported two lines, but given the flexibility of CustomClock and larger screens I'm not sure what is appropriate. Thoughts?

-Greg

[GoCubs]

When accessing the settings it gets the currently selected player and send commands to the SBS associated with it. So make sure you have selected a player with "Settings/Choose Player" menu that's connected to the SBS where you have SDT installed.

I've sometimes seen it getting into a situation where no player is selected and in this case there was an error in the log.

If it doesn't help to select a player, try looking in the log files, if you are using Windows they should be here:
C:\Documents and Settings\YourUser\Local Settings\Temp

Looks like I'm actually having the same problem as this post- http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpo...&postcount=185
I'm running SqueezePlay on Windows. Is there any workaround?

Thanks
-Greg

[erland]

Looks like I'm actually having the same problem as this post- http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpo...&postcount=185
I'm running SqueezePlay on Windows. Is there any workaround?

You can use Linux or OSX(Mac) ;-)

The problem is that the path's in the Windows installation looks completely different, so the logic to find the image and font cache directories doesn't work. It might possibly work as long as you don't use custom fonts (don't specify the "font" attribute) and set the "dynamic" attribute to true which should disable image cache.

I might take another look at it and see if it's possible change the logic to work differently if used on Windows. I only have a XP installation to try on but hopefully it's at least installed the same way independent of version of Windows.

[GoCubs]

You can use Linux or OSX(Mac) ;-)

The problem is that the path's in the Windows installation looks completely different, so the logic to find the image and font cache directories doesn't work. It might possibly work as long as you don't use custom fonts (don't specify the "font" attribute) and set the "dynamic" attribute to true which should disable image cache.

I might take another look at it and see if it's possible change the logic to work differently if used on Windows. I only have a XP installation to try on but hopefully it's at least installed the same way independent of version of Windows.

Are you certain there isn't a function to retrieve the full path to those regardless of OS?

It won't even let you into the Custom Clock applet settings screen, so not sure if custom font or dynamic matter.

I have VMware running on this laptop so I could add a Linux image. Fun.

-Greg

[erland]

Are you certain there isn't a function to retrieve the full path to those regardless of OS?

I've asked and the answer was that there isn't

[erland]

Are you certain there isn't a function to retrieve the full path to those regardless of OS?

It won't even let you into the Custom Clock applet settings screen, so not sure if custom font or dynamic matter.

I have VMware running on this laptop so I could add a Linux image. Fun.

Let me make another try at this, I think I should at least be possible to get the "applets" directory in the same way as "Applet Installer" which should make it work as long as you don't use custom fonts. There isn't a common function, but I could use similar logic.

[Mike Meyer]

Hey Mike-

I'm trying to figure out if another API is necessary for third party plugins to add additional data for Jive-based devices. Currently I provide ways to add custom macros and sport scores. Do I need something else for custom text strings?

For nonJive screens I supported two lines, but given the flexibility of CustomClock and larger screens I'm not sure what is appropriate. Thoughts?

-Greg

Currently I'm getting familiar with Custom Clock Helper, I'm really new at that. I've added a custom macro to my plugin and I'm able to use that from the SuperDateTime settings page to get the value to show up in other places. The step I'm missing is how to use that in Custom Clock Helper to get it to show up on my Controller.

Is it possible to make param 2 and 3 of the AddDisplayItem API call available to the Jive-based devices? That really has all the data I would need. I know that is designed around the two lines on the older hardware but it might be a nice option to have. In order to make use of the newer screens, we could use the custom macro or the new addCustomSportsScore or something else we come up with.

I'm not sure how dynamic it could be. If I make a call to:
addDisplayItem("PGAScores", "PGA Leaderboard - $TourneyStatus", "$Position $Player $Score ($Thru)", 'L');
for example, it would be nice to be able to use %PGAScoresLine1 and %PGAScoresLine2 in a Custom Clock design script. Where %PGAScoresLine1 is "PGA Leaderboard - $TourneyStatus" and %PGAScoresLine2 is "$Position $Player $Score ($Thru)".

But I don't know how difficult that would be to implement for both you and erland. Just throwing that out there.

[erland]

In this version I've also added league AND team logos. Sorry Erland as these additional optional 'logoURL', homeLogoURL, and awayLogoURL data points may break your existing logic. In this version the logoURLs are included for all SDT-supported sport leagues and team logos are supported for MLB. I'll add others as I have time.

It seems like the NBA logoURL field is incorrect, it's specified in the JSON/CLI answer as:
plugins/SuperDateTime/html/images/NBA.png
But the url that works looks like this:
plugins/SuperDateTime/html/images/nba.png

I'm guessing it probably works on Windows where file names aren't context sensitive, but it currently doesn't work on Linux.

I suspect the same thing also might be the case for NFL logo urls since it also have png file with small letters.