XMBC 2.5 Beta

[phil]

An interesting idea, but that would be yet more GUI work (my pet hate in MFC these days lol). How would you envisage setting up and managing the "macros". I'm not really sure you would gain much as the "macros" are likely to be different for each button are they not, or would you then start combining macros?

As for alternate/mirror links, I cant really do that - I provide the main link and a XML PAD file for the big mirror servers like Softpedia, MajorGeeks, File Cluster and many more (see the main download page for all the review and link sites). Personally I like to keep my main download link as the primary one as I can count downloads. The "mirror" I link to is in the US on a very slow free web host but the main link should be pretty fast as its hosted at a high speed UK data centre and for 4MB file it should be fine over Europe!

In essence, XMBC is a hobby, I cant afford proper big hosts (I'm no Microsoft!) - many 3rd party sites mirror it worldwide but thats pretty much out of my control.

Thanks,
phil

[zoktar]

Yeah the idea is that you turn often used sequences into something easyer to add into the box. So when your creating a new layer, you can reuse some of your old sequences with new combinations without having to copy paste that really long part of the sequence, as for gui, i guess you could store them into a simple .txt.

inside the Sequences.txt

{INITSEQ} = "{CLEAR}{LCTRL}1{CLEAR}23{SHIFT}6{CLEAR}{ALT}{CTRL}M"


so when i make a new layer, ill just enter {INITSEQ} to reuse that whole thing.

This would provide.

Store unused sequences
Write sequences beforehand inside a txt instead of in the gui
Shorten long key sequences into its own tag, easier for entering into the gui later.
An extension to layers without added gui coding.
Simple way to share your sequences with others?
Create complex sequences with variations already tagged, {COMB1}{COMB4}{VAR2}.

Cant say how useful it would be outside of gaming, cause i mostly play games, But imagine you play
10 games. Each character in one game could benefit from multiple keystroke combinations. You could name
your sequences after game/character/spell names. I tend to have alot of characters in each game. Lets say world of warcraft, a healer class, with a o-sh** button. Id simply name it {MRHEALEROSHIT1}
and fill in the combination. So if im out of layers and i decide to play an old character, i could just open up the txt, and check the varius combos i used to use for that characters, and enter into the gui that way. Or if my memory served me particularly well, id just enter the sequence-names that i had given them into the gui right away.

Personally, id probably have up around 100 of these atm. Tho alot of characters i haven't played in over a year, tho still it would be nice to know i could return with the same setups i used to use. Ofc i could just store this anyway, but reusing it inside the gui would seem attractive.

[LiquidMX]

hmm, i was thinking about extending xmbc by simple codes for example

this will extend custom program i'm developing and is add to the xmbc

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class "FLV Player" extends XMBC {
//RMBC = Right Mouse Button Click
//300 = 300ms interval
//LMBC = Left Mouse Button Click
   if((RMBC with 300) and LMBC){
          //execute some macro
          //ie. ctrl+d
   }else{
          //when 300 ms interval finish
          //and within this boundaries LMBC wasn't clicked
          //execute another macro
   }
}

and it could be mixed, mouse + keyboard keys, mouse buttons and eaven extend macros in some way,

[zoktar]

Having issues with alt+ combinations, specifically in star wars the old republic.

alt+1234qerfcvbn

The result is that it simply wont send at all, iv tried LALT & RALT aswell. Really strange. But from what i can tell, it looks like when i send alt via xmouse, It accually defocuses the game window and jumps out of the game, like trying to access another window or something. Its not like the window is beeing defocused, its like the pointer is beeing defocused while sending. Cause it changes pointer icon thats how i noticed. As soon as it done it returns to game. So is there some other window that is taking alt as a priority over xmouse/swtor? Using the keyboard for alt+combs, does not exhibit this and works as usual.

Ehm i also noticed that using alt via keyboard auto repeats while held down, for example alt+q from keyboard. I dont think this is intended as ctrl or shift do not auto-repeat. Might be an issue with the game i guess. Also noticed that while held down it does the same thing with the pointer jumping out of the game as when i send via xmouse.

[zoktar]

Thought of something that might be useful, some sort of extended HOLD tag.

Like say you wanted to do 3 keys, with a key held down for that sequence.

lets say {HOLDKEY}L1234{RELEASEKEY}L

L is held down till {RELEASEKEY}L is issued, or the sequence has ended. Maybe shorten it to (HK} {RK}.

best regards.

[phil]

I'll add it to the list, its something I have thought of before but it will be tricky so I cant make any promises for v2.5.

Thanks,
Phil

[phil]

Phil!
Question: I do not know if it's a bug in the import profile import one profile
even if the contents of a file saved using the Export All.

I cant seem to reproduce this problem. Import is important all the profiles in my files that I used Export All on. Can you send me a copy of your profile file that fails to import - maybe there is something specific in the file causing problems?

Thanks,
Phil

[phil]

Updated the beta to v2.5 Beta 4

Changes from v2.5 Beta 3

• #145 - Change 'Restore desktop icon &layout' text to fix translation conflict with context menu.
• #146 - Added CONTROL+Click on the tray icon to "quick open" the profile folder.
• #150 - Added option to change layers by left clicking the system tray icon!
• #152 - Fix horizontal scrolling in explorer using method 1 by default!
• Added the language template to the installation so you can always find the latest language template in your XMBC profile folder.

I've decided to push any big changes to v2.6 because the corrupt user manual in v2.4 is really becoming an issue and I need to release v2.5 to get that fixed! So this may be the last 2.5 beta if there are no problems reported.

Thanks,
Phil

[phil]

One more little update before I release v2.5....
We are now at beta v2.5 Beta 5

Changes from v2.5 Beta 4

• #138 - Chnaged the version checking so it actually fires when requested, even if PC is left on or hibernated. Previously it only ever check when you launched XMBC!

v2.5 will be let out into the wild by (or over) the weekend if no other problems are found.

Thanks,
Phil

[LiquidMX]

error in beta 5,

detects new version when the newest is installed.

and here is updated polish language pack

[phil]

Are you sure its not detecting the new final release of v2.5 which happened yesterday as promised?

Thanks,
Phil

[LiquidMX]

i had beta 2.5 beta 5, so it detected v 2.5 full release, now its ok

sorry my bad, i mistook version where 2.5 beta 5 is greater than 2.5 full version.
Which is not.

Cheers Phil

[phil]

No problem, I'm going to lock this thread now 2.5 has been released.