RE: dummy scripting question

[Tony Tofts]

> what i cant do is get a script to work to extract the
> albim/artist/title from the rio xap msg.

That's cause it's an xpl message ;-)

> Steve had posted on this (shown below) but still no joy. Has
> anyone done this, if so can they post the script.

I use the following script with each rio to capture everything into global
values (for website display) but you could put the sending of the xpl pcosd
message in there somewhere. Obviously you need to replace 'bathroom' with
the instance of your rio.

Regards
Tony

sub TONYT_RIO_BATHROOM_Status(xPLMessage)

' record last status

sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_STATUS")=xpl.getparam(xplmessage,"STATUS",true)
select case ucase(sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_STATUS"))
case "PLAYING"

sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_TYPE")=xpl.getparam(xplmessage,"TYPE",true)

sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_ARTIST")=xpl.getparam(xplmessage,"ARTIST",true)

sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_ALBUM")=xpl.getparam(xplmessage,"ALBUM",true)

sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_TRACK")=xpl.getparam(xplmessage,"TRACK",true)
case "NEXT"

sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_NEXT_TYPE")=xpl.getparam(xplmessage,"TYPE",true)

sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_NEXT_ARTIST")=xpl.getparam(xplmessage,"ARTIST",true)

sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_NEXT_ALBUM")=xpl.getparam(xplmessage,"ALBUM",true)

sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_NEXT_TRACK")=xpl.getparam(xplmessage,"TRACK",true)
case "POWER ON"
' don't clear, as rio may have been playing in off mode
case else
sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_TYPE")=""
sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_ARTIST")=""
sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_ALBUM")=""
sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_TRACK")=""
sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_NEXT_TYPE")=""
sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_NEXT_ARTIST")=""
sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_NEXT_ALBUM")=""
sys.value("RIO_BATHROOM_NEXT_TRACK")=""
end select

end sub