Updated weather plug-in posted

[MixMan]

Thanks Jeff for working on the Weather plugin.

I have skinned the weather plugin for the BaseSkin.

There is one bitmap (popup_sep.png) in the Please Wait popup that is hardcoded to .\resources directory

[SIZE="1"] <CompositeImage name="PleaseWait" size="720,480">
<DrawImage filename="..\popup_background.png" loc="105,140" size="510,170"/>
<DrawImage filename="..\resources\popup_sep.png" loc="105,140" size="510,85"/>
<DrawText text="Downloading Weather Forecast" loc="120,150" size="482,30" textStyle="WaitTitle" align="Left"/>
<DrawText text="Please wait while downloading weather forecast from msnbc.com, this may take awhile depending on your Internet connection" loc="120,212" size="482,108" textStyle="WaitMessage" align="Left"/>
</CompositeImage>[/SIZE]

There are a number of text strings that are not translatable.
I am collecting these for next "translation release"
I will mail you these when I think I have found them all.
Perhaps the translations can be in next GBPVR release from Sub.

[Old Dog]

Could you look in your gbpvr.exe.log file and see what it has in there? I use the VA plug-in and panel on my home machine, which I think has the same configuration,, but then again I may have an updated video archive.dll. Mine is dated 1/16/2006 at 10:52PM.

Jeff

Hi Jeff,

I updated video archive then installed the weather update. Same problem when I scroll to the videos button.

I've attached my log file. Basically it shows the Out of Memory exception just after a key-down event (but I only scrolled to it).

I rolled back only the utils dll. Everything is okay.

Best Regards,
David

[MixMan]

Hello Jeff

There seems to be a new version 3.0 of CommonGBPVRutilities.dll (144kb) that comes with the Weather plugin.
It seems like this version of CommonGBPVRutilities.dll causes Appearence Manager to crash GBPVR with an Out of memory .net message.

From what I can see both Weather and AM work with version 2.0 of CommonGBPVRutilities.dll (120kb)

Whats new with version 3.0 of CommonGBPVRutilities.dll ? ..... is it needed for some functionality with your plugins ?

[Jeff]

I have been making changes to the database to permissions for viewing files and for making the display faster in the video archive plug-ins. It was supposed to be backwards compatible, but I have not tested it much to confirm this yet.

The weather plug-in does not require any of the new features so it should work just fine with the old version. I will download the appearance manger and see if I can find out why the new version does not work with it. We should also probably move this discusion thread over to the plug-in support area so that this thread just stays as the announcement.

Jeff

[Jeff]

I think I found the problem. I had changed the way the commongbpvrutilities returned task image files. I had added code that someone suggested so as to try to not leave the file in use so that it could be changed dynamically. I rememeber Reven saying that he had tried this too but that it did not work correctly. I forgot to back out the change. Can you try the attached and see if the problem is fixed?

Thanks

Jeff

[Old Dog]

This really sounds interesting.

I'll try it out as soon as I can. Unfortunately I'm working 12 hour shifts plus weekends and I'm beat so I might not be the quickest.

-David

[MixMan]

This version of CommonGBPVRutilities.dll works with AM.
No more crashes. Please update the weather plugin with this version.
Thanks for correcting the "bug"

[Jeff]

There is nothing posted below; can you edit your message?

Jeff

[Jeff]

There was a period of time where the wiki had the old setup file rather than the updated one. Can you try downloading again now, reinstall, and see if things are fixed.

Thanks

Jeff

[Jeff]

Yes; I just uploaded a new version with an updated commongbpvrutiliites.dll

Jeff