Author Archives: Triscopic

Hey Trisopic, Why You No Make Plugin?

Posted by on September 17, 2012 7 comments

So it’s been a while since I posted much – I’ve been caught up in a horrible rewrite of the monitoring plugin for a while, and have had a new version of the graphs plugin “under test” (i.e. running on my home PCs great) for… well, let’s just say longer than testing really needs. Maybe you’ve been wondering why I’ve not been saying much though? Well, this is the reason: my new daughter Madeleine.

Maddy is now almost 6 weeks old and doing very well.  I hope SR forgives me posting this here, but he did set the precedent a year ago…

 

Drive me crazy

Posted by on November 10, 2011 No comments

Another new plugin, LH_DriveStats, is now available. This plugin allows LCDHost to display several bits of data about your local drives, such as Free/Used/Total space and the number of reads/writes per second. It even sports a new pie chart object for the disk space. No pics for this one as I’m not artistic enough to make disk drives statistics look sexy.

Get it here

(Team) Speak up!

Posted by on November 9, 2011 4 comments

Yes, with A21 comes TeamSpeak 3 integration. Due to the impact of a certain baby (naming no names – he knows who he is… well ok, he doesn’t as his sense of self won’t have developed yet), SirReal and I weren’t able coordinate this release as well as we usually do so you’ll have to download it seperately and add it to your plugins folder by hand. There’s also an updated Eos that reacts to launching TS3 by hiding the 5-day weather and big clock and looking like this.

LH_TS3 features:

  • Show your connection status
  • Show the names of who is talking
  • Show your speaker and microphone mute  states
  • Show your connected username
  • Show your connected channel
  • A few other neat tricks…
Get it here

LCDHost Alpha 17

Posted by on July 7, 2011 No comments

For anyone new to LCDHost, LCDHost is a compositing plugin manager for LCD’s. It’s primarily targeted towards the Logitech G19, but it will work with the G13 and G15 too.

Although A16 introduced auto-updating, because of the huge amounts of restructuring we’ve been coding right up to the wire. That means the A16 will have expired for most people by the time A17 was released and that means the auto-updater won’t be able to run – so if LCDHost does not run for you, please download A17 in the good old-fashioned way.

Here is a list of some of the things that are new:

What’s new in LCDHost alpha 17:

  • Rather massive internal restructuring to allow plugins to have setup items.
  • Allow linking of setup items to each other. Together with the above item, it allows the separation of data sources, like the system e-mail count, and data sinks, like an image showing a letter or some text showing the numeric count.
  • Allow instances to be hidden from view using plugin APIs.
  • Setting the web update checking interval now works.
  • Weather settings have moved from the layout to the “plugin settings” panel on the plugins page. Layouts will no longer need customising per user just to get the weather settings.
    • Due to time constraints, the weather translation features have been disabled. Expect these to make a return soon.
  • Cursors have had an overhaul – cursor pages now work as they should have done all along: place items inside a page and they will all be hidden when the page is not active. This does however mean old layouts using cursor pages will need updating.
  • Conditional Formatting: text and bar items now support conditional formatting – colours, fonts and more can be changed when the value meets certain criteria. Graphs and Dials will receive similar love and attention soon.
  • Monitoring items have had another overhaul: their value dependant formatting has been removed in favour of using the conditional formatting code (see the included Eos theme for more examples of how this is done).

Download link on the LCDHost homepage.

A15 Plugin Updates

Posted by on March 8, 2011 No comments

Veeery soon SirReal will be releasing LCDHost A15. There are a number of enhancements to the plugins which I’ll be posting about over the next few days in their relevant threads in the forum, but the main changes are… Read more »

Dials galore

Posted by on January 1, 2011 No comments

Introducing dials (or “speedometers” if you prefer) for LCDHost.

After a lot of time and effort, not to mention several massive trigonometry-based headaches and a large pile of paper covered in badly drawn circles and squares and liberal amounts of trig mnemonics,  I am pleased to announce LH_Dial, a plugin that renders data in the form of dials. For best effect I suggest you fire up a copy of your favourite graphics editing package and create your own custom dial backgrounds and/or needles, but the plugin can generate it’s own basic backgrounds & needles if required. I’ve also included a few I knocked up using Gimp for Windows.

To get the latest version of this plugin head over to the forum

Happy New Year!

(P.S. Thank you to Ender91 for the excellent dial-based layout shown above)

LCDHost Alpha 13

Posted by on December 19, 2010 No comments

For anyone new to LCDHost, LCDHost is a compositing plugin manager for LCD’s. It’s primarily targeted towards the Logitech G19, but it will work with the G13 and G15 too.

And as a birthday gift to me, Triscopic, SirReal has allowed me to announce the release of this new version.

Here is a list of some of the things that are new:

What’s new in LCDHost alpha 13:

  • Fix: Now base64 encodes binary data in the XML layout file.
  • Fix: Build device identifiers from USB HID/VID data rather than device file names.
  • Fix: Input subsystem has gotten a much-needed overhaul
  • Fix: Prevent RSS items from sending Open URL requests too fast.
  • Fix: Still showed garbage characters at end of program name in LCD Manager.
  • Fix: Sometimes when loading a layout, stored values would get mixed up between instances.
  • Fix: The System tab’s inbound and outbound network wasn’t in MBit.
  • Fix: Text now renders at 96 dpi no matter what the system default is.
  • Fix: Several minor fixes.
  • Some tweaks to how zooming and panning works in the Layout tab.
  • The textual network data rate now includes the unit (for example B/s or bit/s)
  • Bars can now use images instead of just gradient fills.
  • Bars can now use sliding alpha transparency to create tapered ends.
  • Ability for plugins to change the loaded layout (plugins to do this coming soon)
  • The obsolete plugins LH_QScript, LH_CPU and LH_Network have been removed.
  • The SignLibrary tool is now included in the distribution.
  • You can finally map the LCD keys as you would any others.
  • Triscopic’s Eos layout is now included.
  • Several of Triscopic’s excellent* plugins have been bundled.

(*Note that was written by SirReal, I’m not that immodest)

Download link on the LCDHost homepage.

New Admin

Posted by on December 17, 2010 No comments

SirReal in his infinite wisdom has now added me, Triscopic as an administrator. Expect sporadic plugin update news on your favourite G19 application to now feature on the Link Data homepage.