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g15composer 3.1 - MP 0|1|2 - only 1 toggles

Wed, 01/23/2008 - 20:39 — zendo

g15composer-3.1
g15daemon-1.2.7
libg15-1.2.6

When running:

echo "MP 1" > g15pipe

The screen sometimes toggles from the clock to the composer screen and vice versa (note this does not always happen especially when the code is embedded in another application).

MP 0 and MP 2 - have no effect.

I notice there is another similar post to this, though I am using the latest downloads and the problem persists.

Would the logic make more sense if there was a switch that just set either the clock screen or the composer screen, the toggle unfortunately means state has to be stored and of course that makes it awkward across applications.

i.e.
MP 0 - move composer screen to background
MP 1 - move composer screen to foreground

The manual page states:

147 MP 0|1|2
148 Set screen to foreground if 0 and background if 1
149 If 2, set screen to background if and only if user hasn't set it to foreground

screen is not defined, is it the composer screen or the clock screen? or is it meant to mean the next screen being written to?

MP 2 - move composer screen to background if the user has not clicked the button to display the composer screen

but really MP 0 1 as above would make the system quite usable.

I also have noticed that sending commands quickly to the pipe can sometime result in them not being shown:

echo "MP 1" > g15; echo "TL \"Hello\" " > g15

Does not display.
but

echo "MP 1" > g15; sleep 1; echo "TL \"Hello\" " > g15

does, if the screen was on clock mode.

Anyway hope you can get this ironed it as the suite of tools you have got are a great addition to this keyboard.

‹ Screen borders are changing all over. Error: Unable to access /path/to/pipe ›
Thu, 01/24/2008 - 23:57 — Frozen-Solid

Re: g15composer 3.1 - MP 0|1|2 - only 1 toggles

mlampard, I salute you. The dev cylce of g15tools is fucking impressive. Right up there with E17.

Thu, 01/24/2008 - 23:55 — mlampard

Re: g15composer 3.1 - MP 0|1|2 - only 1 toggles

Attached is an updated patch to g15composer that fixes all MP bugs I'm aware of. In order for 'MP 2' to work, g15daemon 1.9x needs to be checked out of SVN, as there was a bug introduced at some point in the distant past that caused the user-select status not to be updated.

With the patch applied and using the latest SVN version of g15daemon-wip (1.9.6pre) MP works as specified in the manual.

Thu, 01/24/2008 - 23:21 — Frozen-Solid

Re: g15composer 3.1 - MP 0|1|2 - only 1 toggles

Okay I figured it out... the script's backlight flash option was on (it is by default). Turning the backlight flash off seems to have fixed it. So there's something with flashing the backlight that was breaking it.

Thu, 01/24/2008 - 23:15 — Frozen-Solid

Re: g15composer 3.1 - MP 0|1|2 - only 1 toggles

I'm using the script from here: http://www.lattyware.co.uk/G15H/

The only change I made to it was changing the config.txt file's string line:

string: MC 1%newline%PC 0%newline%T%textsize% "%nick% %channel% %time%" "%messagewrapped%"%newline%PR 0 0 160 %textheight%%newline%MC 0%newline%MP 0%newline%

I also tried it with "MP 0%newline%" before the MC 1, but that didn't make any difference.

Thu, 01/24/2008 - 23:11 — mlampard

Re: g15composer 3.1 - MP 0|1|2 - only 1 toggles

Frozen-Solid wrote:
Well it seems to work in my simple thunderbird script that I wrote as well as in my amarok script... but not in the x-chat hilight script. Weird.

well, it's a start I suppose. Can you post your x-chat script?

Thu, 01/24/2008 - 23:01 — Frozen-Solid

Re: g15composer 3.1 - MP 0|1|2 - only 1 toggles

Well it seems to work in my simple thunderbird script that I wrote as well as in my amarok script... but not in the x-chat hilight script. Weird.

Thu, 01/24/2008 - 22:35 — mlampard

Re: g15composer 3.1 - MP 0|1|2 - only 1 toggles

oops. try this one :)

Thu, 01/24/2008 - 22:26 — Frozen-Solid

Re: g15composer 3.1 - MP 0|1|2 - only 1 toggles

Uh. That looks like the same patch that you said you already put in 1.9.5.1?

Thu, 01/24/2008 - 22:19 — mlampard

Re: g15composer 3.1 - MP 0|1|2 - only 1 toggles

Please try the attached patch against g15composer. It partially resolves the 0|1|2 issue, but there appears to be another problem where g15composer sends a blank screen after switching priorities, this is most visible with '2'. I'll look into it further.

With this patch applied 0|1 work as expected for me, except for the aforementioned issue.
Mike

Thu, 01/24/2008 - 20:14 — Frozen-Solid

Re: g15composer 3.1 - MP 0|1|2 - only 1 toggles

I'm not noticing any difference with how MP works on daemon 1.9.5.1

Thu, 01/24/2008 - 18:09 — mlampard

Re: g15composer 3.1 - MP 0|1|2 - only 1 toggles

G15Daemon 1.9.5.1 has the patch already included, applying the patch to versions later than 1.9.5 may actually undo it's effects.

Thanks for reporting.

Mike

Thu, 01/24/2008 - 13:04 — zendo

Re: g15composer 3.1 - MP 0|1|2 - only 1 toggles

Thanks for your speedy response.

My bad I was running:

g15daemon-1.9.4

apologies for that :)

I have updated to g15daemon-1.9.5.1

tried to apply the patch but got errors initially.

I did a ./configure && make && make install

same toggle effect on MP 1

then I did a make unistall && make clean

applied the patch, which took this time

another ./configure && make && make install

MP 2 did something

but then stopped

back to the toggling with MP 1

MP 0 no effect

though the echo "MP 1" > ~/g15; echo "TL \"Hello\"" > ~/g15

now works without the sleep :)

I think it may also be remembering the clock setup now which is a good thing.

Thanks for your help and the tool itself.

Thu, 01/24/2008 - 02:23 — mlampard

Re: g15composer 3.1 - MP 0|1|2 - only 1 toggles

Please try G15Daemon 1.9x (now 1.9.5) with the attached patch. G15Daemon versions up to and including 1.9.5 have a bug that missed some updates from G15Composer.

To apply the patch:
cp g15daemon-1.9.5-composer-bf-1.patch.gz g15daemon-1.9.5
cd g15daemon-1.9.5
gunzip -c g15daemon-1.9.5-composer-bf-1.patch.gz |patch -p0
./configure && make && make install