Leading zeros on WinAmp times

[ehrnam45]

Well, I've got everything /but/ the mini spectrum analyser going and i love this software. LCDC was making some wierd issues by only writing to the second row, so I went elsewhere!

Anyway, my display is a MO VK-202-24-USB. There's a lot of stuff to pack into two lines, but I want it to look good as well, as it's going to be the display on my HTPC.

What I have so far is:

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$dll(holdnscroll.dll,1,($WinampTracknr) ,16/$WinampTitle)
$dll(sandr.dll,1,$WinampStat,) $Chr(176) [$WinampPosition(8)]$Right($WinampPosh,$7%)

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What I would like to be able to do is add leading zeros to the time elapsed/remaining counters from the winamp plugin, like so:

H:MM:SS or 0:02:43

that will make it easier to build around it and squeeze every last box of usefulness. I think that I will need some kind of IF setup, but I can't really find much on how to do it...

I.E.:

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  IF (winampTime <1 hour)
   THEN {display leading zero and semicolon}
     IF (winampTime <1 minute)
       THEN {display leading zeros and semicolon}
     ELSE {just display the time}
  ELSE {just display the time}
  ENDIF

Oh, I want to add a leading zero to the track number too.

Since I've got your attention, what about displaying chapters/scenes for a DVD?

Would this be better suited to the 'plugin feature request' area?

[limbo]

Check this plugin

[ehrnam45]

wow, that's some great stuff!

here's the new screeny:



and the code:

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HTPC Rev. 2
$dll(holdnscroll.dll,1,($dll(formatting.dll,1,$WinampTracknr,00)) ,16/$WinampTitle)
$dll(sandr.dll,1,$WinampStat,)$Chr(176) [$WinampPosition(8)] $dll(formatting.dll,1,$WinampPosh,0:00:00)

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the degree symbol is of course the play/pause/stop custom chars. it really looks so much better to me this way. now to figure out what to do with the square brackets on the position indicator... any suggestions?

[limbo]

You can try to combine enallax plugin and split title on the moving part of the hold'n'scroll to alter the title with the artist for lets say 10 seconds!

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$dll(holdnscroll.dll,1,,($dll(formatting.dll,1,$WinampTracknr,00)) 16/$dll(enallax,10,$dll(splittitle,1,$WinampTitle,),$dll(splittitle,2,$WinampTitle,)))

[ehrnam45]

well, after listening to a few tracks (and not really watching the display) i noticed something odd. the split zeros are fine until it hits more than 59 seconds. after that, it throws an error saying that "Param1 must be numeric" did i do something wrong with the formatting.dll?

Also, on the scrolling section, how do i make it start at the left edge of the scrolling area instead of flying in from the far right?

[limbo]

I'm not the author of this plugin but I believe that this caused by th ":" character returned by the winamp time.

I will check it more if I fing time...
I have in mind to build a new plugin for this...
Please be patient

[ehrnam45]

I had the same thought driving back from the store. I would use cut.dll, but the :'s are not always present, and the length of the string is varable...

I don't have the tools to compile the plugin, but I have experience in writing code. Let me know if I can be of any help in writing it.

[limbo]

Just be patient to find the time first.

[mattcro]

There's some discussion in the regexp thread about using regexp to add leading zeroes, although it only went as far as adding leading zeroes for minutes. It's rather convoluted but seems to work. It could be extended to add zeroes for hours, but it's probably better to do a dedicated time formatting plugin.

Perhaps this should be added to the formatting.dll plugin or similar, as a new function something like this:

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$dll(formatting,5,$WinampPosh,HH:MM:SS)

would produce 00:01:32 instead of the 1:32 returned by $WinampPosh

and

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$dll(formatting,5,$WinampPosh,mMM:SS)

would produce 65:19 instead of 1:05:19, or 121:45 instead of 2:01:45, the first (lower case) "m" indicating an optional zero for 100's of minutes. I believe there's a standard formatting system for time in Perl/PHP etc, which could probably be used here.

For me, this would certainly be better (and much more readable!) than

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$dll(regexp,3,0:(\d*):#\1:#:(\d)#:0\1#0(\d\d)#\1,0:$WinampPosh)

which adds a leading zero and colon if necessary for minutes.

Matt.