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Re: TurboCalc5

Posted on: 2009/6/5 3:54 #121

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@ferrels

When I bought my AmigaOneXE in 2003, it came with a Magic Pack cd from Eyetech to go with UAE, and it had Turbocalc 3.5 on it. I still use it every week, its very handy. I didnt realise I was using an outdated version. I might give it the latest version a try too.

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jahc

Re: JIT for E-UAE bounty (continued discussion).

Posted on: 2009/6/4 2:00 #122

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@rwo

It's unrelated to JIT, but it's a useful feature to have, if you want to copy something from e-uae's workbench for example, and then paste it into os4's workbench.

I have a shared clipboard between PC and OS4. It's very convenient. It's like having one computer with two screens. :)

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jahc

Re: Next Update - Update

Posted on: 2009/6/4 1:57 #123

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@bean

Feature request: Add an alpha channel to the skinned display so it blends into the display nicely? :)

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jahc

Re: SimplePlay facelift

Posted on: 2009/6/3 21:59 #124

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I've uploaded it to os4depot.net now.

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jahc

Re: SimplePlay facelift

Posted on: 2009/6/3 10:49 #125

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@ChrisH

Thanks! I've reuploaded the archive with the fixed icon.

Quote:

An opinion: The addition of << and >> buttons makes the SimplePlay window very wide (it was already too wide really). Which means that the shown playlist is mostly empty (wasted) space. I see two solutions:

1. Turn one toolbar into two (one above the other). Say Play, Pause & stop on one line, and the directional buttons on the second line.

2. Allow the playlist to show paths, perhaps AFTER the filename (so if the window isn't wide enough then you aren't missing anything).

Or you could even do both!

Oh, I also noticed that if the window is not wide enough, the volume slider has no width, so that it can only be set to 0 OR 128. Perhaps this is intentional?

Another suggestion: The "Sort List" button seems to sort by filename only, where-as it might be nice to sort by the path too. Given your internal implementation, doing this would be less efficient, but then again sorting doesn't get done very often.

Hmmm, while I am at it, a "Jump to" button would be quite nice. If you went for my "two line toolbar" suggestion, then this could appear under the Repear & Shuffle buttons...

Oh.. interesting suggestions... but I think I just want to bugfix atm.. I've been quite motivated to code lately, but now that all the major things from my to do list are done (for all my various projects), I'm starting to slip back into minor bugfixing mode again.

Btw, you can turn off the text in the toolbar buttons.. I dont know if you've tried that already..

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jahc

Re: SimplePlay facelift

Posted on: 2009/6/3 10:02 #126

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http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com/simpleplay/simpleplay3_7.lha

If this works okay for people then I'll upload it to os4depot.net and update my site.

Changes.....

- AISS is used for a graphical toolbar
- Added a fun little scope.
- The Text Objects (such as the currently playing Song name) are now clipped
if they are too wide for the display. Before it would sometimes clip fine,
but then make the window a lot wider when iconifying then reopening.
- Added an ARexx port, to listen for NEXT, PLAY, PREVIOUS, PAUSE, STOP,
VOLUMEUP, VOLUMEDOWN, SETVOLUME, SHUFFLE. GETSONGNAME. Example scripts are
provided.
- "Previous" function will now take you to the previous song you played,
instead of the previous song in the playlist
- "Next" function will start the playback if playback is currently stopped.
- SimplePlay stops playback when it reaches the end of the playlist now
(unless in shuffle mode).
- Music will now resume if you press play after pressing pause. (previously
it would restart the song)
- Added some rewind/fast forward buttons. The music library I use pretty
much has to rewind the song everytime you want to set the position. The
function is slower at the beginning of the song, and gets slower the more
it has to seek into the file. This only works for MP3 and OGG at the moment.
- Shuffle mode is remembered next time you load SimplePlay
- An ARexx script can be executed when you play a song. Configure this by
selecting "Settings" from the pulldown menu. I have provided a script that
sends text to WookieChat to tell everyone what song you just started.
Remember to enable WookieChat's ARexx by setting the icon tooltype to
arexx=true before starting.
- "Add Directory" works recursively now, thanks to Chris Handley!

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jahc

Re: SimplePlay facelift

Posted on: 2009/6/2 9:28 #127

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Guys.. do these docs make sense for my arexx port?

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ARexx Commands

PREVIOUS, PLAY, NEXT, STOP, PAUSE, GETSONGNAME

Also..
SHUFFLE - can be turned on and off with the value 1 or 0

SETVOLUME - set the volume to 'parameter'
e.g. "SETVOLUME 128"

VOLUMEUP - increase the volume by 'parameter'
e.g. "VOLUMEUP 2"

VOLUEMDOWN - decrease the volume by 'parameter'
e.g. "VOLUMEDOWN 2"

Note: Muted volume is 0, and maximum volume is 128.

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jahc

Re: SimplePlay facelift

Posted on: 2009/6/1 15:49 #128

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@TSK

What we mean is if we scan a dir, it should do all sub dirs inside as well..

please point me towards this example!

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jahc

Re: SimplePlay facelift

Posted on: 2009/5/31 10:37 #129

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@Mason

And thank you for making it! It's such a useful resource. Especially when the best thing I can draw myself is tiny square boxes!

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jahc

Re: SimplePlay facelift

Posted on: 2009/5/31 10:11 #130

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@Snuffy

Okay, done.

@thread

http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com ... mpleplay_arexx_option.png

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jahc

Re: SimplePlay facelift

Posted on: 2009/5/31 2:38 #131

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@Snuffy

Go to http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com/ .. and to the left on the blue bar, theres "Donate" halfway down the screen under "Misc"..

Thanks :)

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jahc

Re: SimplePlay facelift

Posted on: 2009/5/31 0:57 #132

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@ChrisH

Quote:

How about making "Add Directory" recursive? At the moment I am having to load my TuneNet playlists! And being able to add several directories at once (highlighting them in one requester) would be really useful.

i had a recursive dir opening function, but it was buggy like a mother fucker, so I disabled it.

Quote:

Some way to make Shuffle permanently enabled would be great. (I miss this on TuneNet too.)

Okay, this feature has just been added. :)

Quote:

Would it be possible for the audio decoding/mixing routines to run at a higher priority? I don't know what they are running at, but anything slightly CPU demanding tends to cause brief glitches in the sound.

I'm not really sure. I'll check with spotUp, because he's done an sdl_mixer recompile before.
Also, I'm hoping he might be able to remove annoying sdl_mixer debug text when rewinding/fastforwarding..
Audio: Skipping 14.500000 seconds...
Audio: Skipping 15.000000 seconds...
etc etc..

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jahc

Re: SimplePlay facelift

Posted on: 2009/5/30 1:53 #133

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@jahc

It looks a lot better when its moving, but I made it half the size and put it beside the Time Elapsed text object.. (not released yet..)

http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com/wip/scope3.png

EDIT: Getting closer to another release!
http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com/wip/scope4.png
And some more changes:
- Added an ARexx port, to listen for NEXT, PLAY, PREVIOUS, PAUSE, STOP, VOLUMEUP, VOLUMEDOWN, SETVOLUME,
SHUFFLE. Example scripts are provided.
- "Previous" function will now take you to the previous song you played, instead of the previous song in
the playlist
- "Next" function will start the playback if playback is currently stopped.
- SimplePlay stops playback when it reaches the end of the playlist now (unless in shuffle mode).
- Music will now resume if you press pause, and then the play button. (previously it would restart the song)
- Added SLOW rewind/fast forward buttons. The music library I use pretty much has to rewind the song
everytime you want to set the position. The function is slower at the beginning of the song, and gets
slower the more it has to seek into the file.

Edited by jahc on 2009/5/30 11:40:20

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jahc

Re: SimplePlay facelift

Posted on: 2009/5/29 23:18 #134

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@Snuffy

Quote:

My favorite mod,wave, and ogg player.
I love the new face-lift!

I didn't know people actually used it! In that case.. here, you can try it out:
http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com/sptest.lha

I'm still working on it. I'm going to give it an ARexx port, so multimedia keyboards can send volume changing commands, or next/previous track commands to SimplePlay.. Also when you click a button, I want it to be able to execute an ARexx script too. This could be useful to i.e. send "/say jahc is listening to %n %s" to WookieChat.. i cant think of another use, but with the flexibility, someone else might find another use for it.

Bean, if you're reading this, feel free to implement these ideas too. :) In fact, lets try and use the same ARexx command names and syntax.

P.S. To make it look nice, go into MUI Settings, External, TheBar, Appearance, and change the view mode to "Icons only".

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jahc

Re: SimplePlay facelift

Posted on: 2009/5/29 23:07 #135

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@Lio

Unfortunately not. I didnt write any of the music routines.. I just used an existing library called SDL_Mixer. It was designed for usage in games, which is why SimplePlay is missing a few proper music app features.

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jahc

Re: SimplePlay facelift

Posted on: 2009/5/29 9:03 #136

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@Elwood

It will open a window, and when you start typing it'll build a list below of songs that match .. when you see the song you want, you can use the cursor keys to go down and then press enter to play it.. (or you can use the mouse to double click it, but thats slower for me).

http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com/wip/jump.png

Tunenet has this too, but my method feels slightly more intuitive to use. I struggle to remember the Tunenet key shortcuts.. Tunenet is great in nearly all other areas though, and is probably the leading music player on OS4. But I like my own creations. I've got about 4 pieces of software I've made that's in use on my system every day, and maybe another 2 that I semi use every now and again.. but I'm rambling now. :)

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jahc

SimplePlay facelift

Posted on: 2009/5/28 23:49 #137

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I've replaced the plain "play" "stop" "next" buttons etc with AISS toolbar images.. uses thebar.mcc. It looks a bit odd still because the images are bigger than the volume and repeat+shuffle buttons.. but oh well. :)

Also, I gave it a tiny little inaccurate but fun scope. That little vertical mui gauge bobs up and down to the music.

http://wookiechat.amigarevolution.com/wip/revamped_simpleplay.png
Edit: just uploaded a newer screenshot

It's still based on SDL_Mixer, which has no function to "get" the song length.. so I cant add a position slider.. but I could probably add fast forward and rewind buttons.

I use still it instead of Tunenet because I like the Jump function I implemented. :)

Edited by jahc on 2009/5/29 0:22:31
Edited by jahc on 2009/5/29 5:06:47

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jahc

Re: Need a mungwall style utility for OS4.1

Posted on: 2009/5/25 13:45 #138

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@Rigo

I basically just want to test if WookieChat is doing anything illegal on exit. On OS4, no reapers appear, but on MOS it triggers Mungwall output..

Can you give me a brief command line on how to start up MemGuard for my needs?

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jahc

Need a mungwall style utility for OS4.1

Posted on: 2009/5/25 11:45 #139

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I tried memguard on os4depot.net but it complains about low memory then locks up my machine solid.

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jahc

Re: New Mame for OS 4

Posted on: 2009/5/23 1:33 #140

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@MagicSN

please upload it to os4depot.net too, the home of OS4 files.

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