New Plugin : Reminder Panel

[ojo]

@ViperDragon
Sorry, not yet. I've been down with the flu a couple of days, so I'm still working on an update.

[DoPeFiSh]

when I add a birthday reminder (or any kinda) it won't show up in the VA Pannel, I get the default reminders but none of my own, I even played with the date for them from 1 day left to one day to the countdown and no luck......thanks

[ViperDragon]

No prob! Get better!

[PVR4ME]

Thanks for the cool plugin. I'm running XMediaLE and when I install the plugin I get the dreaded ".NET" app failure. Here is part of the dump of the error:

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just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
at System.Collections.SortedList.GetKey(Int32 index)
at ReminderPanel.ReminderPanel.renderPanel()
at xae10db17d26ba033.x86396f56243de9fb.render(Boolean& xbae0ec4fbb835d1e)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.ForceRepaint()
at xae10db17d26ba033.x86396f56243de9fb.x5337203f86c34517(String x2022b5e8d76ee693)
at xae10db17d26ba033.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.WndProc(Message& x5f8f2c40c000ab2c)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

I think there is a problem with drawing the text or something in the main menu, but I've tried different values for text size and screen position of the reminder panel with no luck (the default values didn't work of course). I haven't edited the reminder.xml file - it is there with the default values but I never could get to the point where the error would disappear. Any thought on this? Thanks in advance.

[writebac]

Hi OJO,
I thought I had followed your directions to a tee but the display did not come up. What did happen after editing the skin.xml file was that the VA panel stopped showing me what the upcoming recording were going to be. I change the Skin.xml file again moving the script down that told what was coming up in the future and I got that screen to work again, but never was able to get the Reminder panel to work. I was able to see it in the config program with the generic example data in it, but not once could I get it to come up on the VA panel either on the computer or MVP. I obviously have missed something. I placed the .DLL file in the plugins, altered the Skin.xml in the main skin folder and I have the proper blue screen, but still can't make it fly. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Writebac

[Fatman_do]

Hi OJO,
I thought I had followed your directions to a tee but the display did not come up. What did happen after editing the skin.xml file was that the VA panel stopped showing me what the upcoming recording were going to be. I change the Skin.xml file again moving the script down that told what was coming up in the future and I got that screen to work again, but never was able to get the Reminder panel to work. I was able to see it in the config program with the generic example data in it, but not once could I get it to come up on the VA panel either on the computer or MVP. I obviously have missed something. I placed the .DLL file in the plugins, altered the Skin.xml in the main skin folder and I have the proper blue screen, but still can't make it fly. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Writebac

I have not tried this plugin yet, but I believe if I am seeing things correctly, this plugin has no "hooks" into the VA panel. This is a separate panel altogether.

In your Main Menu skin.xml file make sure it looks like this at the end of the file:

<SpecialElements>
<SpecialElement name="Buttons" loc="40,90" spacing="38" alwayCentered="false" maxVisibleButtons="7" allowTopBottomWrap="false" showNumbers="false"/>
<SpecialElement name="TaskDescription" visible="true" loc="125,428" size="475,50" align="Center"/>
<SpecialElement name="TaskImage" visible="false" animate="false" loc="460,100" size="300,300"/>
<SpecialElement name="MoreUp" loc="95,69"/>
<SpecialElement name="MoreDown" loc="95,360"/>
<SpecialElement name="ForegroundTransparency" percent="80"/>
<SpecialElement name="Inset" loc="257,88" size="398,269"/>

<!-- plugin panels -->
<SpecialElement name="Panel" panelName="Clock" visible="true" transparency="0.7" loc="210,10" size="330,70"/>
<SpecialElement name="Panel" panelName="NextRecording" visible="true" transparency="0.7" loc="245,130" size="490,70"/>
<SpecialElement name="Panel" panelName="ReminderPanel" visible="true" transparency="0.7" loc="260,250" size="490,100"/>

</SpecialElements>

Note: what is not in bold is not important to match as you probably had some more lines in there for the VA panel.

I am a "beginner" skinner and am still learning, but I think I am getting a grasp on more and more every day.

[writebac]

Hi Fatman_do,

I took the line just as it was typed in the Readme file and added right where you had yours. The only thing is when I did that the Next recording scripting failed to work. When I moved the "Next recording Script to the bottom it started working, but the reminder script didn't. I could really use this for those significant dates so it would be nice to see it fly. I will compare what you had with what Ojo had in his readme and see if I missed something. Otherwise any help would be appreciated. Thanks again for he reply.

Writebac

[Fatman_do]

After you posted, I downloaded the panel to give it a shot. I ended up with the same results and found the following errors in the GBPVR.exe.log file:

4/14/2006 11:56:15 PM.046 ERROR [2] Unexpected error rendering panel: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
at System.Collections.SortedList.GetKey(Int32 index)
at ReminderPanel.ReminderPanel.renderPanel()
at xae10db17d26ba033.x86396f56243de9fb.render(Boolean& xbae0ec4fbb835d1e)

And then this

4/14/2006 11:56:16 PM.359 ERROR [2] Unexpected error rendering panel: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
at System.Collections.SortedList.GetKey(Int32 index)
at ReminderPanel.ReminderPanel.renderPanel()
at xae10db17d26ba033.x86396f56243de9fb.render(Boolean& xbae0ec4fbb835d1e)

Which appears to repeat the same error many, many, many times.

I am afraid it looks like a bug in the plugin that the author needs to assist with. I thought I might lend a hand to see if the issue was skin related, but it does not appear to be the case. Sorry.

[writebac]

Thanks for the help, I could have easily have missed something. Will wait and see if OJO comes up with something.

Writebac

[glensh]

Is this plugin still being updated/worked on?

I was thinking it could be enhanced to allow Dismiss and Snooze features (similiar to Outlook reminders). I would like to use it for reminders of house maintenance so the reminder shouldn't go away until there is confirmation that the task has been completed.

If the original developer isn't interested I could try adding this functionality if the source is posted (and it is developed in C#).