Re: sliMP3 Query of playlist index and playlist contents

[Stuart Booth]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:39:03 -0800, "Michael McSharry"
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>I feel comfortable with the operation of the current SliMP3 connector.
I did
confirm that I am able to control multiple SliMP3 with the current
connector. I
am ready to move on to a version that will support Now.Playing and for
which the
playlist contents can be retrieved. Is there a target date for when such
capabilities will be available?

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<grin> Target date? Yes, last year !

That *was* the plan, but I've been fiddling around a fair bit with
things and haven't quite finished things. I'm making a generic GUI
runtime that'll load one and all of my plugins so it's not just a case
of boshing together a single application. I keep adding in new
features and generalising others as I find them common between several
applications. But that's what xAPFramework is for.

Something I haven't got to yet but I was meaning to before releasing
this, was to trim down the amount of error checking I perform
internally. I check the validity of things everywhere in xAPFramework
and I probably overdo that a bit I suspect. I'm going to tune it down
and see if that makes a difference.

xAPFramework is very strict on well-formed messages. Indeed, I had to
resort to an alternative mechanism of sending malformed messages so
that I could test a new feature I've just added to Hub and Viewer.
I'll be updating those in a few days once I'm happy things still work
correctly.

I may also revisit the way things are queried as Edward suggested an
alternative form that has a single message/response cycle rather than
multiple passes back and forth querying individual items. I'll support
both though.

S
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