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E-Touch General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Cary_B on September 15, 2019, 07:50:22 PM

Title: New problem
Post by: Cary_B on September 15, 2019, 07:50:22 PM
Just ran across a new problem. Not sure when it started. When I hit either the Just Added button or the Top Albums button, the screen doesn't change to show just the new albums or the top albums. The current page display changes to show 1 of 2, but the album covers don't show. They stay on whatever albums where showing. I have the New Albums set for 90 days and have a bunch of new albums loaded. When I scroll to the new albums in the main screen, the new label shows on them. The screen just doesn't update.

Any ideas on what I did? Or what I might have changed to make this happen?
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: Barcrest on September 16, 2019, 09:16:26 AM
There is a chance that this is broken.
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: Mark Norville on September 16, 2019, 06:53:59 PM
Quote from: Barcrest on September 16, 2019, 09:16:26 AM
There is a chance that this is broken.

Bug you mean ;)
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: Barcrest on September 17, 2019, 11:16:56 AM
Quote from: Mark Norville on September 16, 2019, 06:53:59 PM
Quote from: Barcrest on September 16, 2019, 09:16:26 AM
There is a chance that this is broken.

Bug you mean ;)

No it worked in older versions but i think it was either swapped to only be created when you generate the library or when you first boot up. This may have broken it.

Looks like there are a few bugs/issues with the last release. I need to compile a definitive list and work through them.
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: Cary_B on October 01, 2019, 02:24:46 PM
Hey Barry, don't mean to bother you but have you found out anything about this and the visualization bug yet
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: Cary_B on October 03, 2019, 07:25:15 PM
Barry, regarding the two problems I asked about. On further research, the visualization bug is still there, but I found that the Newley added bug only happens on the following three skins: Midnight_Blue(1920x1080), Christmas_Eve_1920x1080, and St_Patricks_Day_1920x1080.

On these, I also noticed the following problems with the skins: the "A" and "#" buttons on the jump to screen don't work and on the Christmas_Eve_1920x1080 skin, when the number pad for password access is on screen, the keypad numbers are scrambled:

7 9 8
4 6 5
1 3 2
   0

Not a killer problem, but annoying.

I'd try and fix them myself, but I've never been able to wrap my head around the screen tool.
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: berrywell on October 04, 2019, 04:59:17 PM
Quote from: Cary_B on October 03, 2019, 07:25:15 PM
Barry, regarding the two problems I asked about. On further research, the visualization bug is still there, but I found that the Newley added bug only happens on the following three skins: Midnight_Blue(1920x1080), Christmas_Eve_1920x1080, and St_Patricks_Day_1920x1080.

On these, I also noticed the following problems with the skins: the "A" and "#" buttons on the jump to screen don't work and on the Christmas_Eve_1920x1080 skin, when the number pad for password access is on screen, the keypad numbers are scrambled:

7 9 8
4 6 5
1 3 2
   0

Not a killer problem, but annoying.

I'd try and fix them myself, but I've never been able to wrap my head around the screen tool.

Having checked these skins (they are mine), I can confirm that the Jump To Letter problem & the Pin Number screen problem is down to me not skinning the buttons correctly  :-[

The newly added problem though, I'm unsure why it's only happening on my skins as I've checked the .ini files and they are coded in the same way as Coffee's Touch Genie skin. I will see if I can find out if it's a skinning error in the next few days.

Sorry about the poor skinning  :-[
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: Barcrest on October 04, 2019, 05:55:00 PM
Quote from: berrywell on October 04, 2019, 04:59:17 PM
Quote from: Cary_B on October 03, 2019, 07:25:15 PM
Barry, regarding the two problems I asked about. On further research, the visualization bug is still there, but I found that the Newley added bug only happens on the following three skins: Midnight_Blue(1920x1080), Christmas_Eve_1920x1080, and St_Patricks_Day_1920x1080.

On these, I also noticed the following problems with the skins: the "A" and "#" buttons on the jump to screen don't work and on the Christmas_Eve_1920x1080 skin, when the number pad for password access is on screen, the keypad numbers are scrambled:

7 9 8
4 6 5
1 3 2
   0

Not a killer problem, but annoying.

I'd try and fix them myself, but I've never been able to wrap my head around the screen tool.

Having checked these skins (they are mine), I can confirm that the Jump To Letter problem & the Pin Number screen problem is down to me not skinning the buttons correctly  :-[

The newly added problem though, I'm unsure why it's only happening on my skins as I've checked the .ini files and they are coded in the same way as Coffee's Touch Genie skin. I will see if I can find out if it's a skinning error in the next few days.

Sorry about the poor skinning  :-[

At least that explains why i couldn't replicate those as I only use the default skin for testing and dev. That vis but i can replicate so i will look at fixing that over the next week or so while we still have hosting.
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: Cary_B on October 04, 2019, 06:15:51 PM
Barry, not sure about this, I asked Barrywell about it also.  He has a bunch of .png files in his skins that are pictures of the years, i assume meant to be used when you filter on year.  Only the program only seems to use .jpg files as pictures. Didn't you set it so you could use .png files for these pictures a long time ago?  And if so, how do I make them work? 
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: Cary_B on October 04, 2019, 06:20:08 PM
Barry, I also sent this to Barrywell:

So far I haven't noticed any other problems. But mostly just use the basics. Will put them through the ringer the next few days. Look for anything else.

And the newly added is a weird problem. Some skins work and some don't. I've noticed that if you filter on newly added in a skin that it works on, then load one of your skins up while it is filtered, when your skin loads the newly added albums are showing. But unfilter and it doesn't work again. So I think it might be a combination of a bug in Freebox and something in your skin not working together.

Also, noticed a set of .png files of the years in the directory of your skins. (1950-2045? Can't remember the exact number off the top of my head.)  What are these for? I thought they could be used for when you filtered on years, but it seems like Freebox only just .jpg for those images. I would love to use yours as the .jpgs I'm using from an old skin leave a boxy square around then pictures.


Not sure if this helps lock the problem down, or narrows it down to only a problem with the skins or something in the program.

And  Barrywell, don't apologize for bad skinning.  Yours are excellent.  I wish I had about 10 more.  My jukebox has a 1920 x 1080 touchscreen and your skins are beautiful on it.  Especially wish you had a 1920x1080 halloween skin to go with the rest of yours.  Thanks for releasing them to us to use. 
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: Cary_B on October 05, 2019, 03:12:02 AM
Barry, please don't hate me, but I just figured out that I was running the latest version 10 program, but never installed the latest version 10 beta.  I had downloaded it and sent it to my jukebox, but since I unzipped it on my main computer and transferred it to my jukebox, and since they have the same filename once you unzip them, I guess I thought that I had already installed it.

Anyway, long story short, the beta version doesn't have the visualization bug, or the newly added bug.  I can't believe that I drove you nuts to fix a bug that you had already fixed. 

Again, I am truly sorry to have wasted your time on those two bugs when it was my fault.

Sorry again.  The visualization bug is still there.  I was changing skins a bunch and didn't notice it on some.  Seems like some of them have the visualization hidden off screen.  So it doesn't show.  I even played around in the registry to see if it wasn't saving the visualization setting but it does seem to save it.  So it looks like it isn't loading the setting when the program loads.  But if you uncheck and then recheck the setting, it turns it off.  Maybe that will help you with this one...
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: Mark Norville on October 05, 2019, 04:00:37 PM
Quote from: Barcrest on October 04, 2019, 05:55:00 PM
At least that explains why i couldn't replicate those as I only use the default skin for testing and dev. That vis but i can replicate so i will look at fixing that over the next week or so while we still have hosting.

Are we expecting to lose the website soon then? Why not create a faceyawn page? I know that sales have seemed to be slow this year, but if you have not already check out 1&1 or hostgator, they are cheap on hosting.

It would be a shame if this went AWOL as you might generate one or two sales a year, just enough to pay for hosting at least, and a beer.

Maybe a new website and a new default skin might help, also some SEO work.

Regards

Mark
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: berrywell on October 06, 2019, 08:55:19 AM


Quote from: Barcrest on October 04, 2019, 05:55:00 PM
Quote from: berrywell on October 04, 2019, 04:59:17 PM
Quote from: Cary_B on October 03, 2019, 07:25:15 PM
Barry, regarding the two problems I asked about. On further research, the visualization bug is still there, but I found that the Newley added bug only happens on the following three skins: Midnight_Blue(1920x1080), Christmas_Eve_1920x1080, and St_Patricks_Day_1920x1080.

On these, I also noticed the following problems with the skins: the "A" and "#" buttons on the jump to screen don't work and on the Christmas_Eve_1920x1080 skin, when the number pad for password access is on screen, the keypad numbers are scrambled:

7 9 8
4 6 5
1 3 2
   0

Not a killer problem, but annoying.

I'd try and fix them myself, but I've never been able to wrap my head around the screen tool.

Having checked these skins (they are mine), I can confirm that the Jump To Letter problem & the Pin Number screen problem is down to me not skinning the buttons correctly  :-[

The newly added problem though, I'm unsure why it's only happening on my skins as I've checked the .ini files and they are coded in the same way as Coffee's Touch Genie skin. I will see if I can find out if it's a skinning error in the next few days.

Sorry about the poor skinning  :-[

At least that explains why i couldn't replicate those as I only use the default skin for testing and dev. That vis but i can replicate so i will look at fixing that over the next week or so while we still have hosting.

I've had a bit of time to check the 'Newly Added' on my skins & I don't appear to have this problem, the covers change correctly.

I will correct the other problems hopefully this week.
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: berrywell on October 06, 2019, 08:57:01 AM


Quote from: Mark Norville on October 05, 2019, 04:00:37 PM
Quote from: Barcrest on October 04, 2019, 05:55:00 PM
At least that explains why i couldn't replicate those as I only use the default skin for testing and dev. That vis but i can replicate so i will look at fixing that over the next week or so while we still have hosting.

Are we expecting to lose the website soon then? Why not create a faceyawn page? I know that sales have seemed to be slow this year, but if you have not already check out 1&1 or hostgator, they are cheap on hosting.

It would be a shame if this went AWOL as you might generate one or two sales a year, just enough to pay for hosting at least, and a beer.

Maybe a new website and a new default skin might help, also some SEO work.

Regards

Mark

He could also try HostPresto, they have been good for me for many years, they are cheap & have been reliable.
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: berrywell on October 07, 2019, 11:47:55 AM
Quote from: Cary_B on October 04, 2019, 06:20:08 PM
Barry, I also sent this to Barrywell:

So far I haven't noticed any other problems. But mostly just use the basics. Will put them through the ringer the next few days. Look for anything else.

And the newly added is a weird problem. Some skins work and some don't. I've noticed that if you filter on newly added in a skin that it works on, then load one of your skins up while it is filtered, when your skin loads the newly added albums are showing. But unfilter and it doesn't work again. So I think it might be a combination of a bug in Freebox and something in your skin not working together.

Also, noticed a set of .png files of the years in the directory of your skins. (1950-2045? Can't remember the exact number off the top of my head.)  What are these for? I thought they could be used for when you filtered on years, but it seems like Freebox only just .jpg for those images. I would love to use yours as the .jpgs I'm using from an old skin leave a boxy square around then pictures.


Not sure if this helps lock the problem down, or narrows it down to only a problem with the skins or something in the program.

And  Barrywell, don't apologize for bad skinning.  Yours are excellent.  I wish I had about 10 more.  My jukebox has a 1920 x 1080 touchscreen and your skins are beautiful on it.  Especially wish you had a 1920x1080 halloween skin to go with the rest of yours.  Thanks for releasing them to us to use.

Hi,
I never got this as a private message, I'm assuming you sent it to me?

The .png year buttons in the skins (1952-2019) are for the chart selection page within that skin, they are not used for the Filter section (Genre/Years/etc.) they are something different and require a .jpg file. I suppose there is nothing to stop you from converting the .png files to .jpg files and using them for the filter page. Hope that helps a tad.

As for the jump to letter problem, whilst I haven't fixed the buttons yet (haven't had time) I have investigated a little further.
It seems that there is a bug within the Skin Tool itself that saves the Jump To Letter buttons in the wrong place OR the skin tool initially shows the buttons in the wrong place and replacing them with the corresponding letter meaning it's saved wrong.
Either way, it saves to the .ini file incorrectly.

Hope to get the skins sorted this week sometime.
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: Cary_B on October 07, 2019, 03:13:34 PM
Yes, sorry.  I thought something was funny when I sent it.  It never gave me a confirmation.  Oh well, that's computers for you.

I kinda figured that out on the .png files.  Just looking for a quick way to add all the years on the YEAR selection screen.  Oh well, back to finding a good picture for every year.
The jump to letter thing is driving me nuts.  It seems to happen on some skins, and not others, so I assume that the bug you mentioned on the skintool saving has been around for a while. 

I tested out the BlueNeon1920x1080 skin, and the jump to letter works on it.  But itsn't near as nice looking skin as yours.  Though I do like the letters being on screen all the time, since you can keep typing and jump to a certain artist.  That's a nice feature, but again, your skin is so much more polished.

I turned on another feature that I never use, and noticed that if you have SHOW CONFIRMATION WHEN TRACK ADDED selected, the screen that pops up when you add a song works, but if you add a whole album, it just says    label 39  label 39, or if you have already selected a track to put into the que, it will show the last single track you added.

I'm working on figuring out the skintool, but it isn't very intuitive.  Looks like you need to know what is in each .ini file to really be good at it.  I've been able to move a few things around and am starting to be able to make a few minor changes if necessary.  But I doubt I will ever be good at it.  Have ZERO graphics skills, so I'm pretty much screwed at ever being good.

So to recap.  Remaining bugs:

Jump to Letter A and # on certain skins
Show confirmation not showing full albums
The up next album cover not showing on the second screen.
The Visualization bug not saving seems random.  This one may be fixed.  The last few days it hasn't showed up, so it might have been fixed when I installed the beta that I missed.

Sorry to keep bothering you guys, but I was hoping to get these last few cosmetic problems fixed before Barry shuts down.  I wish more people still collected albums, this is such a good piece of software.  Much better than anything else out there, including the shit they pass off as JukeBoxes in the Bars.

One last thing:  You don't have updated charts?  I can make them myself, but would love it if you have updated ones.  Which brings me to one last request.  Is it possible to squeeze in one more row of chart years for when you select the Year and the SELECT YEAR screen pops up?  Currently it show's the 50's through the 10's.  So the last year we will be able to select is 2019.  I'd even be happy if you dropped off the '50's and started at the '60's.  If it is too much of a hassle, don't sweat it.  I'ts cosmetic.  I can live with it. 



Title: Re: New problem
Post by: berrywell on October 08, 2019, 04:55:06 PM
I have investigated further into the Jump To Letter problem, I tried moving the buttons Letter A & Letter # around within the .ini file to match the same positions as Coffee's TouchGenie skin but this didn't make any difference, they still didn't work. I didn't realise till I checked that Coffee's Touch Genie skin is slider based and doesn't have jump to letters, so can't go by the ini included within his skin.

The Blue Neon skin & my own Red (or Blue) n Black HD skins all use the jump to letter displayed permanently on the album screen, these all work correctly.

As the two main skins bundled with E-Touch don't have the pop up Jump To Letter screen (slider & permanent letters on screen) I doubt anyone would have noticed this bug before. Anyway, it seems that the A & # (Number) buttons on the pop up Jump To Letter page don't work and would appear at this stage to be a bug in the main app.
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: Cary_B on October 08, 2019, 07:54:52 PM
Thanks, I thought I was going crazy with this bug. I guess I'll wait for Barry to chime in.
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: Barcrest on October 10, 2019, 11:27:22 AM
So are you saying it is a but loading up the skin images for those buttons? It can't be the actual code if some skins are working but not others. I will have a look.
Title: Re: New problem
Post by: Mark Norville on October 10, 2019, 11:40:41 AM
It could be down to the skin tool, you still had load of bugs in it, when I was trying to skin, you sorted out some of the bugs in version 10 skin tool.

I do not have anything hooked up, so I cannot test anything. If the skins were made with say version 9 skin tool, then it will explain any design flaws.

Regards

Mark