Toaster 0.7

[shaneh]

Woot.. after a bit of work, the RC1 of Toaster 0.7 is here:
Quite likely to have a few bugs and missing features, but it seems to be working ok to warrant a release candidate.

Some highlights:

MSN Title personal message updates! (v7 0.604+ only)- Currently leaked heya: (http://www.jcxp.net/)
Volume change fix for http streams.
gen_ff crash with docked playlist fixed
Dynamic width adjustment - aligned left,right,center
Ability for centered text in the toast
Outline for text
Constant hold - slide the slider all the way right
Turn off msn toast semaphore
Instant on/off animate effect
Maintain aspect ratio for cover images
Forced 'animate out' on toast change
Improved cover file ATF handling
Filters non-file characters in folder images to "_" (can change with "FilterCharacter in .ini).
File locking on folder.jpg etc fixed
Improved Font name selection
Anti-alias settings for font
..more?

I think Toaster may be the first winamp plugin to change the new MSN personal messages which is pretty cool. Let me know how it goes.

[billyvnilly]

bug? cannot adjust width. the slider moves, but the toaster does not adjust, its on the min(i guess) setting.

[shaneh]

Try disabling dynamic width under extra settings.

To calculate the dynamic width, I check the size of each format line, and set the width to the smallest width necessary. Unfortuantly this doesnt take into account lines on the left AND right overlapping each other.

During testing, the only time I had text in both the left and right column of a single row was when I was using only small amounts of text (ie, playcount, length etc) so I didnt encounter this problem.

I will make the required fixes. For now, either turn off dynamic width or set your format options so that one of your single lines is the always biggest line.

[billyvnilly]

thanks shane.

[VooDoo`]

nice, but I found a bug
if I use a custom skin and enable "dynamic witdh adjustment" but disable "stretch custom skin" then my skin would not shown. you should also add a minimum value for the dynamic adjustment, because on very short track names it's too smal and the left text overlays the text on the right side.

[shaneh]

Thats expected as you cannot have a dynamic sized custom skin that is not stretched yet. Currently I disable the dynamic width setting if you have custom skin set and not stretch set. This check is only done at a couple places, but I will work out something a bit better later. Just dont enable dynamic width if you dont want your custom skin stretched.

As I posted earliar, the minimum width check doesnt take into account overlapped strings. I already have a fix for this, but its still not perfect. The dynamic width stuff is pretty much experimental at this stage. It will include dynamic 'height' hopefully at some stage too.

I also have a fix to clear the msn now playing text when you close winamp.

[Jase912]

found a huge bug, i dont know why it does this but it shows boxes in the contact list :S

[shaneh]

@Jase912. This doesnt sound like a bug with Toaster. The only thing Toaster does to MSN messenger is send a message with an updated song title information in unicode.

If youre codepage is weird on windows perhaps this might be causing the problem. As the conversion results in those strange characters if the original characters arent ANSI or your codepage/language isnt typical. Please bear in mind that both msn7 and toaster 0.7 are beta software.

[Jase912]

Ill post a screenshot soon

[Jase912]

here we go

any idea's

[shaneh]

Is Toaster displaying the correct info in its popup? Are you using an English version of msn/winamp/windows? Is the song title standard ANSI?

[Jase912]

i am using winamp 2 is that the problem, btw check your PM.

[shaneh]

Yes that is a problem. Use winamp 5+. I checked my PM, but there is no need to add you to my personal MSN contact list. The problem is you are using Winamp 2.

[Jase912]

so u cant make it compatible to winamp 2?

[d3x7r0]

Very Very nice