SilverJulke Plugin - Current Song Export

[rugbykid]

Hi All,

I'm new to SilverJuke and the SDK, but am looking forward to writing a few plug-ins or modules.

I want to write a plugin that takes the current song information and exports it to a text file (the same one, just keeps overwriting). With that text file I would then write a plug-in for the Instant Messaging Client Pidgin to read that text file and change my status message based on it.

Has anyone made a SJPI similar to this? It doesn't seem like it would be too hard, I'm just not familiar with it yet.

Any feedback or advice for a first time SJ coder would be appreciated!

[rugbykid]

I ended up getting what I wanted out of a fairly simple script. I'm sure no one would have trouble coming up with this but here is my code:

player.onTrackChange = TrackChangeNotificationHandler;

var location;
var browse;


function TrackChangeNotificationHandler()
{
var cur = player.queuePos;
var info = player.getArtistAtPos(cur) +
" - " +
player.getTitleAtPos(cur) +
" (" +
player.getDurationAtPos(cur) +
")";

if( player.isPlaying()){
location = "c:/currentlyplaying.txt";
File.remove(location);
var file = new File(location);
file.pos = 0;
file.write(info);
file.flush();
}
}


If you see anything I may be doing wrong or suggestions to make it better, please let me know.

On to the Pidgin SDK to see what I can do there...

[rugbykid]

Okay,
I found a GAIM plug-in that did what I wanted. Unfortunately it doesnt work with the new GAIM, titled PIDGIN.

To get this to work I downloaded GAIM 2.0.0 BETA 2 from
http://www.oldapps.com/download_old_version_gaim.php

Also the plug-in Auto-Profile from http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~casey/autoprofile/

Just install the GAIM client and setup the plugin to look for the file specified in the above code. It will update your status or profile every 1minute to update with your current track information.

hope someone out there finds this useful!

[rugbykid]

To see it in use, add BobsJukeBox to your AIM buddylist.

[Guest]

Thank you for your code, I will have a look at it. Also I am curious about your next "few plug-ins or modules"

Regards,
Chris.

[locka]

So where do you put this in side skin I'm lost?

[Guest]

<skin>
<script>

// your script here.

</script>
<layout ...>
...
</layout>
</skin>

[Guest]

sorry to be thick and that will run every time a track is changed

[Guest]

fixed thanks for the help