TMSCommander

[Indy]

[quote="Happy"]I have now checked what happens, if a tap calls TAP_ExitNormal().

Mainstate stays 0 (STATE_Normal)
Substate then returns 0 (SUBSTATE_MainMenu).

Mainstate only changes, when opening a TMS menu.
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Thanks Till for testing. Can somebody who has contact to Topfield (beta tester) please confirm if this is a bug or by design? What would be the meaning of TYPE_State STATE_Tap?

[Indy]

Anything else? I can send a TMSCommander_Exiting event

This is what I would prefer. I could set a boolean in my code. I don't know how quick Firebirds HDD_TAP_isRunning(TMSCMDRTAPID) is but testing against a boolean might be quicker. I know this is nitpicking but I'm from the old school were as little time as possible should be spent in event handlers

[deangelj]

Hi Indy - yes I will do this as well.

[deangelj]

v0.5 released: changes are:

- Add support for stopping TAPs
- change keys on TAPlist to be more logical, ie. Menu to show Menu
- add Refresh key to show latest list in case anything changes behind the scenes
- Send TMSCMDR_Exiting command to all running TAPs when TMSCommander is exiting
- check Substate (as well as MainState) when determining if a key is to be trapped by TMSCommander
- TMSCommander can be stopped from the main list just like any other TAP
- TMSCommander will respond to TMSCMDR_IsAlive command

[Töppi]

thanks!

[xyzzyx]

Thanks for the TAP.

A problem seems to be for me in OSDMenu. After showing the whole tms commander menu and an OSDMenu Infobox by tms commander on it and hiding it there is a box which is transparent to the live tv channel. Only when I move to the next selectable tap the tms commander menu is fixed again. So maybe if an infobox is destroyed you have to display the menu again. But maybe that happens only with my combination of running taps.
Or maybe in the FireBirdLibs OSDMenu infobox and messagebox functions a SaveBox and RestoreBox would be nice.

And if you stopped a tap then it still remains in the tms commander list. So maybe you should reload the tap list.

Maybe a nice addition would be to switch between names and TAP IDs so that you could see if there may be a conflict in the IDs or to prevent using an existing one in a new tap.

EDIT: Another proposal would be to show a symbol next to those taps that support a menu, because not all will do this and you can see that easier.

[Happy]

Hi John,

the substate check now works perfectly for me, also when TmsC starts as the first tap.
I can also observe a transperant rectangle left over from the infobox when stopping a tap.

Personally I would prefer the OK key to activate a tap rather than the Menu key. Or you add another capability to TMSCommander, i.e. "activation". I have one tap that has got a menu screen and a separate screen showing a list. Another one does not have a menu but only an activation screen. This capability could then use the ok key.

Regards,
Till

[deangelj]

@xyzzyx: ah yes, I forgot about fixing the infobox problem - I'll fix that asap. And thanks for the other suggestions. As for the TAP still showing in the list, yes I thought about that- but it became a timing issue with how long it takes a TAP to shutdown. So I went the easy route and put in a Refresh button

@Till: your suggestion raises some interesting questions that I've been thinking about. TMSCommander can send whatever commands you like to your TAP - they just have to be configured on both sides. I can add some user-defined commands in the menu, where you add the key you wish to use and what value to send. Of course these will apply to all TAPs so you could theoretically get conflicts.

cheers
John

[Happy]

[quote="deangelj"]I can add some user-defined commands in the menu, where you add the key you wish to use and what value to send. Of course these will apply to all TAPs so you could theoretically get conflicts.
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But as TmsC selects the taps to send commands to, I don't see much room for conflicts. Only one tap is addressed at a time.
On the other hand, the good thing in TmsC is that it works without configuration. So it should not become too complicated.

Regards,
Till

[deangelj]

v0.6 has been posted in the opening post - a couple of minor fixes:

- fix bug where infoscreen clearing leaves hole in menu
- refresh list after stopping tap

[FireBird]

Thanks.

[Töppi]

Thanks.

thanks!

[xyzzyx]

Another nice feature would be to remember the taps that I stop manually via TMSCommander and to add a "Start TAP" Feature, so that I could manually change the tap order by that, e.g. I stop two taps and start them again in a different order.

[13philipp]

,,,vielen Dank jda für Skip und nun auch TMSCommander...

[deangelj]

Another nice feature would be to remember the taps that I stop manually via TMSCommander and to add a "Start TAP" Feature, so that I could manually change the tap order by that, e.g. I stop two taps and start them again in a different order.

Will it add it to the "wishlist" with your other suggestions xyzzyx :

cheers,
John

[deangelj]

Hi - I've uploaded v0.7 to my site here: TMSCommander v0.7

changes are:
- Allow user to change between OK or Menu to select a TAP's menu
- Info button cycles between different screens: Description, Capabilities, TAPIDs, Authors

Updated image is in the original post.

(I cannot edit my original post anymore, don't know why...)

Cheers,
John

[Happy]

Hi - I've uploaded v0.7 to my site here: TMSCommander v0.7

changes are:
- Allow user to change between OK or Menu to select a TAP's menu
- Info button cycles between different screens: Description, Capabilities, TAPIDs, Authors

Many thanks.

(I cannot edit my original post anymore, don't know why...)

This is company's policy

Either the board moderators will keep the link updated or you give us a permanent link, where to find the current version and a moderator will update the first post.

Regards,
Till

[deangelj]

Ah, OK Till. Could the OP link be changed then to [url]http://.../TMSCommander.zip[/url] ? And I'll change the filename on my site.

Thank you.

John.

[Alter Sack]

Ah, OK Till. Could the OP link be changed then to [url]http://.../TMSCommander.zip[/url] ? And I'll change the filename on my site.

Done

[FireBird]

Done

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