Been working in the train on SDLMPC aka, squishybox. At the moment I support bitmap caching (for better memory usage and performance) and I directly implemented Theme support. To keep things simple more widgets are just pictures, that must be available in 3 states: NORMAL, HIGHLIGHT, PRESSED. It been progressing slowly, but starting to get read more
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Squishybox: Looking for an artist to draw up some GUI elements
February 21, 2011 – 10:11 pm
Again I spend a few hours today working on Squishybox. Squishybox is replacement software for your Logitech Squeezebox Touch. It is ment to replace both the GUI and the backend server. (Squeezebox Touch is a dedicated Music Player you can connect to your stereo, it has a nice 3″ (or so) capacitive touchscreen and a read more
Squishybox – Updates
February 21, 2011 – 11:45 am
Some new mockups: And some implementation screenshots: I cannot remember where I got the background images from, let alone what the license is. So I am looking for some nice 480×272 pixel backgrounds that I can ship with it. Please let me know if you know if you have some or know where I can read more
Some Mockups
February 20, 2011 – 1:41 am
Trying to come up with some mockups of how SDLMPC (squishybox frontend) should look. It runs on a squeezebox touch with a resolution off 480×272 pixels and a capacitive touchscreen. The base would look like this: (almost as the prototype looks now) The now playing would look like this: Now I should start making these read more
GPX-Viewer click to see position
February 17, 2011 – 10:39 pm
I figured out how to catch clicks on my champlain map. (left mouse click is still dodgy as the button release only is triggered when you move the mouse after releasing). It turned out I had to call clutter_actor_set_reactive() on the map. Not knowing clutter at all, it would have been nice if the champlain read more
GPX-Viewer: libchamplain weird errors
February 16, 2011 – 10:50 pm
I have 2 very weird errors currently with gpx-viewer. 1. The missing events. I am trying to catch click events on the map, idea is that the users clicks a point on the track, and that point is highlighted in the graph. So reading the GtkChamplain and Champlain documentation, I saw the following: Get the read more
GPX-Viewer distance graph
February 15, 2011 – 12:24 am
I while back I added a distance graph to gpx-viewer, found it mostly pointless. So today I changed it to display the absolute distance from the start. This is (for my use-case) slightly more interesting then seeing a mostly linear line. Further I fixed several bugs, so update! On a side note, I discovered an read more
GPX-viewer point filtering
February 13, 2011 – 10:50 pm
I wrote a small GPX-Viewer program as you might know. (See this site). One of the problems with GPX-Viewer is that libchamplain gets pretty slow with complex routes that have a lot of points. So I thought, why not try to filter out points? The idea is simple, if you have 3 points: A->B->C and read more
GMPC Treeview tooltip
February 13, 2011 – 10:21 pm
The gmpc treeview tooltip will stay. Greg (who host all gmpc sites and my all the rest of my crap for free) wanted it in, so it stays. (Yes bribing works!)
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February 12, 2011 – 11:22 am
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