This weekend

[zorlac]

This weekend, I have been building my new PC, which has taken a little longer than I had imagined Sorry

Still putting everything back on it, but will be coding just as soon as I am done.

(Dual-Core, so I can now do that processor affinity code I was planning )

[JRH147]

Just wanted to say thanks so much for putting all your effort into this. I finally got my system all set up and can't wait to design my own screens (although the LOMAC ones already there are fantastic!)

Thanks again. (And please don't give up - I have no idea how to code anything!)

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

I can't wait for you and others to design more screens too! I'm so busy coding I don't have time for that right now. Once we get background images I think we'll see some very cool screens available.

[zorlac]

Once my PC is sorted (and I can get Lomac running on it without StarFarce locking it up), my priorities for this beta are:

- Fix the TS crash that WBK is having
- Processor Affinity (basic stuff... cant test this at work, dont haver a dual core machine here)
- Tab background images.

(then a whole load of other stuff )

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

I have a dual core. If I can help testing let me know. I don't have TS but can install it for testing, but I have never used it before. (maybe that's a good test too, being that I'm a rookie and will probably break it. )

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

Originally Posted by zorlac

- Tab background images.

Z. I have the Toolkit already letting the user pick a background image for each tab. And it writes out a "bgimage" variable for each Tab.

[new-tab]
name = Game
bgimage = D:\My Documents\TouchBuddy-0.6.2 - Beta\profiles\FS9\FS9-wbk\Background\F16 Las Vegas.jpg
[end-tab]

If you want to do it that way, great. If not let me know how you plan on implementing this... Right now I have it saving the full path, but I think it should use a relative path also.

Question:
Can the Modules/Plugins 'load' value have a relative path? I think it should allow this so we could just make these part of a profile that we can easily share as well. Maybe not the Modules since you are making them part of TB, but the Plugins could be part of the profile.

[zorlac]

Originally Posted by Wild.Bill.Kelso

I have a dual core. If I can help testing let me know. I don't have TS but can install it for testing, but I have never used it before. (maybe that's a good test too, being that I'm a rookie and will probably break it. )

Dont install it you are the only one it breaks for, so always need your input on that... lol...

[zorlac]

Originally Posted by Wild.Bill.Kelso

Z. I have the Toolkit already letting the user pick a background image for each tab. And it writes out a "bgimage" variable for each Tab.

[new-tab]
name = Game
bgimage = D:\My Documents\TouchBuddy-0.6.2 - Beta\profiles\FS9\FS9-wbk\Background\F16 Las Vegas.jpg
[end-tab]

If you want to do it that way, great. If not let me know how you plan on implementing this... Right now I have it saving the full path, but I think it should use a relative path also.

bgimage = xxx is fine with me. For now, it will load the image, and scale it width/height to fit into the "client" area of the window.

Question:
Can the Modules/Plugins 'load' value have a relative path? I think it should allow this so we could just make these part of a profile that we can easily share as well. Maybe not the Modules since you are making them part of TB, but the Plugins could be part of the profile.

Not sure... the activeX plugin calls Internet Explorer, and am not sure it has any idea of where it gets called from.

The whole "relative path" stuff is causing me problems, and I may need to address that at a later point.

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

Originally Posted by zorlac

bgimage = xxx is fine with me. For now, it will load the image, and scale it width/height to fit into the "client" area of the window.

I am making my background images the exact size I want so the buttons will line up where I want them on the image. If you resize the background images, that will probably screw that up. Could there be an resize option? Or just no resize at all?

Originally Posted by zorlac

Not sure... the activeX plugin calls Internet Explorer, and am not sure it has any idea of where it gets called from.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Not all Plugin's call IE do they? I can open a folder browser that is the Windows Explorer. Well, IE is integrated into Windows, so this is probably all the same core code anyhow.

But you can already build the full path to the Plugin file, just like you are doing with the button images. Just start with the path to the Profile, and build the full path to the Plugin from there.

[zorlac]

I am making my background images the exact size I want so the buttons will line up where I want them on the image. If you resize the background images, that will probably screw that up. Could there be an resize option? Or just no resize at all?

Hence my talk last week about image resize options for background images (stretch, fit-to-width, fit-to-height, original, etc). Yes, there will be scaling options, and probably a x/y location option too, but until I get to the coding bit, I wont be able to tell you what options they will be.