LCDSirReal 2.8.5

Posted by on June 21, 2011 7 comments

A new version of LCDSirReal has been released. Get it from it’s homepage.

Changes in 2.8.5:

  • No longer by default restart LCDMon.exe (settings lcdmon_starting now defaults to 0)
  • No longer tries HID fallback by default (see the use_hid setting in lcdsirreal.txt)
  • Updated to work with the latest TS3 beta

LCDHost Alpha 16

Posted by on May 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.

What’s new in LCDHost alpha 16:

  • LCDHost now has self-update capability, both for plugins and the main program.
  • Use Tools -> Updates to check the update settings.
  • What’s New display is now on the Welcome screen, not on the device.
  • Updated to Qt 4.7.3 for all platforms
  • OS/X now uses direct-to-hardware since Logitech does not provide 64-bit drivers.
  • HID and USB level drives provided for all platforms.
  • The G19 USB driver requires uninstallation of existing drivers before use.
  • With little in-house testing time, I fully expect this to be an extra-buggy alpha.
  • Report all bugs on the LCDHost issue tracker.
  • I would have liked to replace the g19-default layout, but unfortunately there wasn’t time. Pick your own favorite.
  • Includes a new g15-default layout for 160×43 devices by Ender91.
  • …and lots of other fixes and changes as well.

Download it on the home page.

Important information for OS/X users: LCDHost A16 for OS/X is now 64-bit. If you’re not running Snow Leopard, please consider updating. The Logitech drivers, however, are 32-bit only. This means that LCDHost can no longer use the Logitech drivers to access G13/G15/G19 devices. Sorry about that – but until Logitech releases 64-bit drivers, not much I can do except ask you to try the direct-to-hardware plugins LH_Lg320x240 and LH_Lg160x43. You lose out on the keymapping and backlighting features though. Unfortunately I can’t build a 32-bit version of LCDHost for OS/X, so you’re forced to choose between LCDHost and regular drivers at this point. Hopefully Logitech will release new drivers, and I’ll certainly add macroing and backlight support in the future.

 

LCDSirReal 2.8.4 released

Posted by on April 7, 2011 4 comments

As a side effect of researching how to access the G13/G15 (Z10/G510) hardware on Linux and OS/X, I’ve implemented direct hardware access to those devices in LCDSirReal 2.8.4. If the Logitech software isn’t installed or running (or if it crashes), LCDSirReal will access the LCD directly. In addition, the G-keys will be translated into different special key codes not in common use, so you may be able to map them into games (unlikely unless it’s a quite clever game designer) or to macros using software like AutoHotKey. Yes, now you no longer need to run the 100MB+ Logitech software just to run LCDSirReal. Woot!

Download LCDSirReal 2.8.4 on it’s homepage.

Alpha will be alpha

Posted by on March 19, 2011 No comments

But I should at least make sure the Mac users can even start LCDHost before releasing it. I’ll blame the fact that 15 was the first Mac release and I haven’t yet got the routines down. Anyhow, alpha 15c for Mac has been released. This time it starts without screaming “executable file has been altered”, and as consolation, some of Triscopics plugins that I recently ported to OS/X are included. They’re completely untested, but hey, alpha will be alpha. Update: 15c now also allows you to save layouts without adding ‘.xml’ manually to the layout file name.

Download alpha 15c for Mac on the homepage.

Plugin source code now on Google Code

Posted by on March 15, 2011 No comments

From alpha 16 forwards, the plugin source code will no longer be included with the distribution. Instead, the main repository is now on Google Code. This will allow myself and plugin writers to more effectively develop the code. I’m also adding a link to the source code repository in the menu on the right.

LCDHost Alpha 15

Posted by on March 9, 2011 4 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. The screenshot on the right is from Ender91’s new layout.

What’s new in LCDHost alpha 15:

  • LCDHost is now available for OS/X.
  • Change: Log files are now stored in the data directory on OS/X.
  • Fix: RSS class now handles query parameters correctly.
  • Dev: Added button and listbox setup items.
  • Added: Menu item under tools to remove obsolete setup items from a layout.
  • Fix: Network bandwidth suffix was shown even when percentage display was selected.
  • Change: LH_FLAG_READONLY setup items now loads stored values, LH_FLAG_NOSAVE replaces old functionality.
  • Dev: lh_cb_load_layout now copies parameter data and expects it to be UTF-8 encoded.
  • LH_Lua: Now embeds the ‘cairo’ graphics library, no need to ‘require “lcairo”‘.
  • LH_Lua: Font handling abstracted to remove platform dependencies.
  • Fix: Change events for setup items now only fire on actual data change.
  • Fix: File selection setup items now show all paths as relative to layout.
  • Fix: Changing min/max for supported setup items now clamp the current value.
  • Fix: Downloading public keys are now done in parallell and only once per key.
  • Fix: Spurious characters could be seen with some fonts with LH_Text suffixes.
  • Added: “Show units” as an option for numeric text items such as network usage.
  • New application icon by Ender91.

Download it on the home page.

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 »

Almost done.

Posted by on March 7, 2011 No comments

The (hopefully) final build of LCDHost alpha 15 just got built. As soon as Triscopic has had a final look at it and gives it the thumbs-up, I’ll release A15. This will be the first dual platform release. Mac users shouldn’t expect too much though. Only the basic plugins (i.e. not Triscopics) are included. And while Lua classes work, the more advanced Lua functionality that is provided by QtCore and QtNetworking on Windows aren’t yet available on the Mac. In addition, as most of you already know, the Logitech drivers on the Mac are… somewhat unreliable. There’s nothing I can do about that, unfortunately.

Got a Mac?

Posted by on January 29, 2011 5 comments

Good news. I just built my first fully working .dmg for LCDHost. I still need to get the Lua support libraries running on OS/X though. But hopefully alpha 15 will be a multiplatform release.

LCDHost Alpha 14

Posted by on January 26, 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.

The screenshot on the right is one of many user created layouts – this one is for the game X3: Terran Conflict and is designed by Triscopic. You can download that layout in the forum.

What’s new in LCDHost alpha 14:

  • Dev: LH_QtPlugin.(cpp|h) split up into LH_QtPlugin and LH_QtInstance, project file modification needed.
  • Dev: Setup item help added, recompile needed.
  • Dev: SignLibrary argument ordering changes; use ‘SignLibrary -?’ for usage.
  • Dev: Instance name gets passed to plugin – contructors need looking over.
  • Fix: Detect Logitech Gaming Software version 7.
  • Fix: Plugin verification via HTTP now uses the system proxy.
  • Fix: LH_Image now accepts UTF-8 paths that can be 8-bit encoded.
  • Fix: Setup item parameters changed during plugin loading would not be accepted.
  • Fix: Automatic layout class registration had a race condition.
  • Fix: When reparenting an item it’s width/height would get reset.
  • Fix: The instance preview no longer counts as “instance [1]” for automatic naming purposes.
  • LH_Lua: Lua console output is now shown in a fixed-width font in the log.
  • LH_Lua: Changed how the callback token and ‘self’ table are handled.
  • LH_Lua: Added setup items support.
  • LH_Lua: Added Win32 font creation support for Lua Cairo.
  • LH_Lua: Added __pairs metamethod calling.
  • LH_Lua: One may now iterate over lcdhost.state and other LCDHost pseudo-tables.
  • LH_Lua: Added print_r.lua which provides the useful print_r() function.
  • LH_Lua: Added Lua binding libraries for some Qt DLL’s.
  • …and lots of other small fixes as usual.

Download link on the LCDHost homepage.