Enhancer Plug-in v0.17 + DrO's Compatibility Wrapper v0.9.1 (04/11/2010)

[nscaccia]

Great, a solution at last!!!
Thank you fosoriog!

[Nekomusume]

Knowing that there's some work on updating Enhancer, even if it's just a wrapper, is totally making my year, and that's saying something, given the year I've had.

If there's any way to make it aware of the genre tag and adjust accordingly, that would be even more epic (ambience makes spoken podcasts sound rather odd)

[DrO]

If there's any way to make it aware of the genre tag and adjust accordingly, that would be even more epic (ambience makes spoken podcasts sound rather odd)

i've not been able to work out how the plug-in deals with loading of the presets so far so i really don't know if that's even possible (i can see why it would be wanted but i'm not sure it's possible without actual source code but will see what can be done either way).

-daz

[DrO]

i've spent most of today working on the wrapper (a bit behind on where i wanted to be) and i've managed to get the wrapper to do the following:

• re-direct all registry access to an ini file (%inidir%\plugins\plugin.ini)
• removes the messagebox when clicking on config and also disables the registry access error (doing as a sanity thing just incase something goes wonky with the ini redirection above)
• updated url opening to go to the still active version of the original plug-ins site
• fixed minimise mode to now act like the rest of the winamp windows to go into winshade instead of the iconic state it has been doing over the years
• started on expanding the skin format for the plug-in to show minimised (winshade) and inactive states correctly (debating adding in animation on the close + minimise (winshade) buttons - see attached image for what i mean

i've still to sort out an installer to correctly get files updated/renamed and all that fun and work on a few more things (some things in the plug-in i won't be able to alter with the initial version of the wrapper like how it docks to the edge of the screen or not) so am looking like a few days to finish off things (have a sparodic crash due to the wrapper on my Win7 machine which i need to iron out).


-daz

[DrO]

http://www.nunzioweb.com/daz/enhancer/ is now live (after 24 hours total coding - reverse engineering is time consuming) with v0.8 of the compatibility wrapper.

i'm expecting some sort of issue to arise but need to get an idea of how things work on other machines (have been testing on 3 machines i have and it seems ok). enjoy

Note: in some cases, going to the DSP preferences page may cause a crash to happen with the wrapper installed. i've only experienced it under Win7 and appears to be a stack overflow which my be related to too many load/close attempts on the wrapper but i'm not 100% sure at the moment.

-daz

[evolution76]

Dro is the man

You rule.......can not wait to use this plugin!!!

[leimus]

You are a god, this works flawlessly so far on my Win 7 Pro x64 with newest winamp.

[DrO]

looks like other than the odd crash when going to the DSP prefs page (seems to be triggered by too many queries from the One for Nunz plug-in) things are otherwise ok with the wrapper

-daz

[DrO]

it looks like i've managed to find the cause of the crash when accessing the DSP prefs page with the wrapper and also another exception issue in the wrapper that could lead to a crash.

however, the downside of the first fix is that it means the enhancer window won't move with Winamp's main window if it was docked to it at the start of a moving action (though i've got it planned to see if i can make it dock to other windows anyway in a future version of the wrapper). so i'll be looking into things a bit more to see if i can fix things without loss of functionality though i've probably release the non-crashing version of the wrapper whilst i look further into things.

-daz

[DrO]

just released v0.9 of the wrapper which fixes crashes, adds localisation (now requires Winamp v5.5+) and also allows the Enhancer window to dock to the other Winamp windows + monitor edges and a few other things.

see http://www.nunzioweb.com/daz/enhancer/ for more details, etc

-daz

[watchout]

Awesome wrapper there DrO! Like most of us it has been annoying the hell out of me getting that registry error every time I started Winamp. It even made me use Winamp less as it felt like a hassle opening it up (yep it was that bad). Just liked to say thanks!

[Primoz]

WHy not just put it in the startup folder?

[Dapxin]

thank you!

[DrO]

just released v0.9.1 of the wrapper which adds two new strings for localisation of the find skin dialog (found by pawel) otherwise no other functional changes so i guess i've done something right with the code for a change, hehe.

see http://www.nunzioweb.com/daz/enhancer/ for more details, etc

-daz

[mzcl-mn]

Cheers for the Enhancer Wrapper

Hello DrO, and to all who share the appreciation for the work that he's done with the wrapper.

I, for one, was dwelving for a long time with the registry information access issue along with others that DrO listed. And I appreciate very much your work.

Cheers!