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news panel and the screensaver

 
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news panel and the screensaver
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2005-10-14, 12:51 PM
its been a while since i looked at the code for the news panel or even used it, but recently i turned it on again but the screensaver doesnt work if its on (it just never comes in, well if your on the main menu).

im assuming its to do with the ForceRepaint() call, since i doubt that the news panel would call "DisableScreenSaver()". is there anyway toturn this off (ie would setting the repaint to 1000, ie one second then use the "needsrendering" method as the timer and just return true?, yeah i doubt it).

and since the ticker doesnt work that good (i can live with it thou, if the screensaver can be made to work) how about instead of a ticker (or aswell as the ticker, an option) a news well panel. where one news item is shown at a time in a box (skinnable of course) and every second or so (whole second so isnt using ForceRepaint) the news just switches over, similar to the next recording panel.
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2005-10-14, 07:19 PM
that's cool! What if the screensaver would display the news? You get the logo and underneath it a different headline every few seconds
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2005-10-15, 11:10 PM
Hi

I am interested in playing with the screen saver - this idea (news) also possibly: music title, track details, clock, album art etc.... Is there any sample screen saver code? How does it get called? Is it a standard plug-in? I have knocked around the My Albums plugin and am ready to try something with music panel type functionality on the screen saver page. Has this been done?

thanks
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2005-10-15, 11:37 PM
Ooops - just found VA which has this functionality. Oh well time to find another idea....

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2005-10-16, 01:14 AM (This post was last modified: 2005-10-16, 01:22 AM by Jeff.)
You could add a panel widget to the VA panel that displayed news feeds. Here is an example of how to do this (for stock quotes).

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2005-10-16, 01:59 AM
is there any way to use the VAPanel without VA? thats why i havent bothered using that panel so far, i dont want VA, i dont need it. and i want the news to always be visible (seems pointless having to use a different plugin for this).
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2005-10-16, 02:10 AM
Yes, you can use the panel w/o using the plug-in. They are in the same DLL, but they are configured seperatly. If you don;t select the plug-in it won;t show up in the menu.

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