New releases! V5.3.2 final and V5.4 RC2 are available!

Fast351 · Post by **Fast351** » April 21st, 2006, 7:59 pm

Go to http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/ to download!

-Mike

nsa666666 · Post by **nsa666666** » April 21st, 2006, 9:12 pm

Half of all plugins i have(including all my own) not working with the 5.4 B3.
Something changed at plugin interface?

Fast351 · Post by **Fast351** » April 21st, 2006, 10:32 pm

Nothing has changed that I'm aware of.

Give me a simple one to test against. (preferably something that is compiled in delphi, not C# .net or anything like that).

-Mike

nsa666666 · Post by **nsa666666** » April 21st, 2006, 10:43 pm

It seems that just .NET plugins not working.

Something simple like this:

Code: Select all

//C#
using System;

namespace testplugin
{
	public class LCDSmartie
	{
		public LCDSmartie()
		{
		}

        public string function1(string hor, string text)
        {
            return "This plugin is working!";
        }
	}
}

Compiled: http://web44.server-drome.com/progs/testplugin.dll

hejmowski · Post by **hejmowski** » April 21st, 2006, 11:43 pm

Hmmm... something strange was happened to me

First, new Smartie didn't work with many plugins but five minutes ago it started to work normal

And when 5.4 final will be released?

fishthecat · Post by **fishthecat** » April 22nd, 2006, 12:07 am

Same here.
A load of my plugins aren't working now in 5.4b3

Bignum, animate are.
scroll, picturepg, testplugin are not

Also, The onscreen emulation isn't right.
Looks just fine on my LCD, but not on the emu.
EDIT: A reboot of windows sorted the emu issue.

EDIT
Also, the tool tip on the notification area/systray icon still says "LCD Smartie 5.3" on the 5.4B3 version.

Extra EDIT
BTW, YEY! we've got a new version (5.4b3). Thanks folks for your hard work.

Fast351 · Post by **Fast351** » April 22nd, 2006, 1:36 am

Make sure you restart LCD Smartie after changing the LCD size. For some reason the on screen display doesn't change after changing the LCD size.

As for the .NET stuff, I'll see if I can figure it out, but I can't make any promises. Perhaps the DNBRIDGE stuff got hosed.

I'll update the tooltray highlight next time I get a change.

-Mike

_X7JAY7X_ · Post by **_X7JAY7X_** » April 22nd, 2006, 6:37 am

Fast, my picture plugin from NSA6666 works fine on my version of 5.4. It is build 5.4 build 2.

J

fishthecat · Post by **fishthecat** » April 22nd, 2006, 8:29 am

The LCD emu is now working for me. A reboot of windows did the trick

One more thing. $Chr(219)and $Chr(165) show up as a blank charachers on the emulation, but a square and dot on my LCD. I know that these are different depending on the LCD one has, but maybe someone has an idea about how to display them on the emulation.

ppamment · Post by **ppamment** » April 22nd, 2006, 8:53 am

dnbridge.dll was not included in the 5.4b3 release, so many plugins do not work. Copying over DNbridge.dll from my old smartie folder solved the problem for me

fishthecat · Post by **fishthecat** » April 22nd, 2006, 8:58 am

ppamment wrote:dnbridge.dll was not included in the 5.4b3 release, so many plugins do not work. Copying over DNbridge.dll from my old smartie folder solved the problem for me

YES! That's sorted it! Thanks ppamment.

Fast351 · Post by **Fast351** » April 22nd, 2006, 9:27 am

Added dnbridge.dll to both the 5.3.2 release and the 5.4 b3 release.

If one of you guys could verify that for sure this fixes the problem I'd appreciate it.

-Mike

fishthecat · Post by **fishthecat** » April 22nd, 2006, 10:22 am

Fast351 wrote:Added dnbridge.dll to both the 5.3.2 release and the 5.4 b3 release.

If one of you guys could verify that for sure this fixes the problem I'd appreciate it.

-Mike

adding dnbridge.dll to the 5.4b3 folder now gets scroll.dll and picturepg.dll working on my system.

ppamment · Post by **ppamment** » April 22nd, 2006, 11:53 am

5.4B3 release definately seems more stable for me. I had an issue with old releases that my VFD would freeze. LCD smartie's panel would show the correct things, but the actual VFD would get stuck. Fingers crossed that hasn't happened yet with this beta.

Addition of SSL email is a really important feature with so many people using Gmail now. Unfortunately, it displays the sum total of all your unread messages, rather than just the ones in your inbox. I remember this problem occuring with the first releases of gmail notifier for firefox - maybe it would be worth getting in touch with the author of that firefox plugin to see how he solved the problem. As far as I can tell, the last from and last subject do not work properly either. They are displaying emails that are from last year. I dont know if this problem is isolated to me though...

Also, it would be really good to have a view that shows what plugins are installed, and could pop up a summary of the syntax for the plugin.
You might even allow plugin authors to provide a small ini file or something which would allow LCD Smartie to produce a tab for the plugin and a list of commands which can be "inserted" in the same way all the winamp features etc can be inserted.

Apologies if this sounds like i'm complaining about everything, im very greatful to those who are giving their time to this, and I hope this will be taken as constructive criticism.

nsa666666 · Post by **nsa666666** » April 22nd, 2006, 2:09 pm

Thank you ppamment it works now.

Post by **IFR** » April 22nd, 2006, 9:08 pm

I'm sticking this thread to make sure that everyone gets the latest LCDSmartie.

glen_ · Post by **glen_** » April 27th, 2006, 3:34 am

Great to see some more work being done on LCD Smartie. I have only a couple of small problems, the first of which is not specific to the new version, but I have only noticed it because the new version exists:

I really don't like the way the 'new version detected' window pops up at random times while i'm busy using windows and on boot (when LCD smartie is set to autoload). I think it would be better to either make this reminder an option that you can turn off (permenantly) or simply have it pop up when you go into the configuration only, rather than randomly poping up as well.

So I changed to the new version and now I have an equally annoying problem:

I really don't like the fact that the new version makes a window appear on screen untill the driver loads (with HDD44780). I HATE extra windows flashing up when i'm loading into windows. I much prefer the way the origional 5.3 release would just load in the background and you could manually set a time to wait for the driver to load rather than having a pop-up window in the middle of your screen for 10 seconds, which hinders your dekstop experience.

Thanks for taking the time to read my thoughts. I hope you can help me with the next release.

Fast351 · Post by **Fast351** » April 27th, 2006, 11:41 am

glen_ wrote:I really don't like the way the 'new version detected' window pops up at random times while i'm busy using windows and on boot (when LCD smartie is set to autoload). I think it would be better to either make this reminder an option that you can turn off (permenantly) or simply have it pop up when you go into the configuration only, rather than randomly poping up as well.

You can turn this off by unchecking "Check for LCD Smartie updates" under the internet tab on the setup page.

glen_ wrote:I really don't like the fact that the new version makes a window appear on screen untill the driver loads (with HDD44780). I HATE extra windows flashing up when i'm loading into windows. I much prefer the way the origional 5.3 release would just load in the background and you could manually set a time to wait for the driver to load rather than having a pop-up window in the middle of your screen for 10 seconds, which hinders your dekstop experience.

On the startup tab, check "Always start hidden" and you'll see the main screen for about 1/4 of a second before it minimizes to the system tray. (Just tested this with the HD44780 driver).

-Mike

glen_ · Post by **glen_** » April 27th, 2006, 2:37 pm

First one worked a treat. I just missed that option so thanks very much for that

And the second one I found out was my problem

I had a boot delay (because I copied my old config.ini which in the new version leaves the window open)

thanks again for being kind enough to deal with my sillyness