LCD Screen display

[Kensn]

Well I really wanted to display Silverjuke info on my LCD in my HTPC. I set out to do this with no programming experience. I used the Hello World dll from the Silverjuke SDK, modified it to write the info I wanted to display on my LCD to reigistry values. These values are updated on "player.onTrackChange". I then wrote another DLL for the displaying of the time and progress bar. I used "program.setTimeout" in this plugin to call the plugin every second and update the registry keys with the current time info. I was then able to Use LcdSmartie, with a registry reader plugin, to read these values and display them on the lcd.

I know I have a lot to learn in the coding arena, and at one point was ready to give up, but was pretty happy to get the result I did, even though it would be considered sloppy coding I imagine.

After the basics were working I expanded the code to look at the lengths of the results , such as the album title, to see if it was more than 20 characters long. I then used an existing plugin for LCDSmarite to either center it on my display if it 20 characters or less, or use a custom scroll if they were longer.

I will continue to work on my coding with my ultimate desire to be able to code a LCDSmartie plugin to pull info directly from Silverjuke, bypassing all the registry writing and reading. Don't even know if this is feasible or not though. So far I haven't found the secret to that.

Here is my result so far. The animated gif shows the different screens I have set up, but the cycle time on my LCD is set to cycle the screens much slower.

[Iznogood]

Can you please share it? or the code?

[Guest]

Yes Please At least Know how to get started in coding my own.

[Kensn]

As there is interest in this I will work on uploaing the files and instructions for its use.

[Guest]

looking forward for this tool

[Kensn]

It will take a couple of days to get everything together and write up instructions. Its been a while and I will have to refresh my memory. It will be for a 4 x 20 display. It could be adapted to others, but not by me. LCDsmartie will be used so you may want to get that working with your display while you wait.

[Iznogood]

don't mind - post it, i'll do reverse engineering

[Kensn]

Iznogood, would take less time to write the script... Not that complicatd.

I have to go out of town for a few days, but will be priority when I get back. going to post instuctions and screenshopts of setup.

Ken

[Guest]

@ Kensn
Are you back in town right now?
That "few days" became a few weeks right now.
We, (I)are still interested in the script...
regards, Sus

[Guest]

me too did bodge something together using lcdsmartie got silverjuke to wright to a text file and the lcdsmartie to read it