Animate plugin support

[rv55]

This is an awesome plugin.

I was just raking my brain trying to figure out how to animate my Play symbol. I'd just given up when I though of looking to see if there was a plugin that can do it.

And lo and behold, here it is!

So when something is playing I've set it to alternates between these three values:
">__"
"_>_"
"__>"
Where ">" is my custom play character.

I ended up repeating each of the values to slow it down which raises the question:

Is it possible you could use the 2nd parameter to pass a value to the plugin that dictactes the speed at which it animates?

Another suggestion is, seeing as it looks like most people need msvcp60d.dll and msvcrtd.dll maybe you could include links to them at the top of this thread.

Cheers,

Rocco

[_X7JAY7X_]

Rv, it has been a while since I worked on any plugins, but if I remember correctly, the time interval is only read when smartie first loads the plugin. So (as far as I know) you cannot get around this. It cannot be changed during plugin execution.

If someone has any suggestions, please post.

I think most of the runtimes have been linked in other threads, I will try to find them and repost.

J

[rv55]

It says here http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/plugins.html

"[New for 5.3 beta 4] Data from your plugin will be refreshed upto a maximum of 3 times a second (every 300ms). If you want your plugins data to be refreshed more often (or less often) then you will need to define a new API 'GetMinRefreshInterval' which returns an integer, that defines the required minimal interval in mseconds between screen data refreshes. Smartie will then use the highest value (dll provided limit, or that of the "dll check interval" setting on the Misc tab of the settings)."

Now I'm not sure what this means but it seems to be talking about changing the refresh intervals.

Can you use this? Or has this got nothing to do with what I asked?

Rocco