Play character in display

Chrisss · Post by **Chrisss** » February 12th, 2006, 8:04 pm

Hello there.

Is there any way I can get a play/pause/stop character to display on my LCD. I've currently got a search and replace pugin to change the status of winamp from, say "playing" to "pa" so it can show next to a tiny vis and counter. If possible though I'd like to change it from text to a little symbol.

Post by **IFR** » February 12th, 2006, 8:36 pm

You could use the custom charactor function instead of "pa".

Chrisss · Post by **Chrisss** » February 12th, 2006, 8:39 pm

Aha. Thank. So, umm, how do I do that?

Post by **IFR** » February 12th, 2006, 9:04 pm

I guess it could be like this:

in imit.ini

[Search1]
1=playing
2=stopped
3=paused

[Replace1]
1=$CustomChar(1,16,24,28,30,28,24,16,0)
2=$CustomChar(1,0,31,31,31,31,31,0,0)
3=$CustomChar(1,0,10,10,10,10,10,0,0)

and in lcdmsartie

$dll(sandr,1,$WinampStat,)

Chrisss · Post by **Chrisss** » February 12th, 2006, 9:06 pm

Great. Thank you very much. Working lovely now

Chrisss · Post by **Chrisss** » February 12th, 2006, 9:14 pm

Or almost anyway. Is the character supposed to display at a particular square on the LCD panel? It seems to be replacing the first char of the vis on the line and I'm not sure how to move it from there.

Chrisss · Post by **Chrisss** » February 12th, 2006, 9:23 pm

IN fact it sems to be acting rather strangely. If I place the custom char before the vis it doesn't show. If I place it after it then it shows as the first character of the vis.

Also if I put it on a line of its own it doesn't display.

Chrisss · Post by **Chrisss** » February 12th, 2006, 9:40 pm

Sorted it out now.

The Winamp vis plugin was using all the custom characters so I now have that set to 7 wide instead and then found out I need to use the $Chr() function to actually display the character so the replace function now changes custom character 8 to the desired one and then display $Chr(263) at the end of the line.

Thanks for all the help