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Osler, I still have the VB SDK and been using it to build my plugin so I know its capabilities well. I also have an integrated qplayer in the plugin about to be released. IF you use you XML to populate my plugin DB for song data the Qplayer in it could be used to drive your other parts. Let me know ...

Okay, Now that I know the problem I can work around it. It means building a queing function in the plugin for the songplayer functions so that the list of songs is held internally and queued out to Winamp song by song. I really wanted to figure out how to do dynamic queing in VB6 -:)

I have been working with Mark to setup MediaPro the way he would like to use it and have run into a problem with doing substitution to Winamp playlists. In troubleshooting, I created a playlist manually in Winamp playlist 1. If I set the current active playlist to playlist 1 and then set the A/v Sta...

Glad you saw those other images and found a use for them!

Looks good !!! Like the shading in the list boxes and the big forward and back arrows

I found the problem -- it is a little HB quirk. If you have device properties that are referenced in a panel enter or exit list and then delete the device, you cannot do an export even if you re-create the device unless the device ends up with the same object ID. You cannot see the property changes ...

I am trying to export a theme and the export fails because it thinks it has a deleted reference. I have taken the file into an external editor and looked for all instances of D_ID and made sure they all point to the same device ID is there another ID I need to check on the xml file?

I have the SDK from way back. I have been working on a media plugin and the original developer of the SDK has given me permission to bundle the runtime dll as part of the plugin install. It originally was available as freeware when Scott was making HouseBot available as freeware. When Meedio bought ...

IF you are referring to the old VB SDK for HouseBot. Yes I have quite a bit of experience with it and it should work fine with 2.32 as a complex plugin I have been working on was tested for me by another person running 2.32 without any version related problems

When you did a clean install, did you completely wipe the HouseBot directory? It sounds like those devices still have a reference in the HouseBot database and that is why you are getting those errors.

Your right, the winamp playlist is a winamp specific playlist that contains the extra line per song. The generic definition of a playlist is single lines where each line is the file path for each song.

So the commit/rollback logic is only implemented in the VB SDK. What I mean is that from the HB function for a property change, one can execute a extensive set of logic that can change multiple property values but these changes only commit if the return from the function call is true. If it is retur...

Do you have any dynamically loaded images? I have seen HB lock or fail as a result of dynamically loading an image file that was somewhat corrupted. In some cases, it would not always fail on the file but other times it did. When I replaced the image file, I had no further problems.

Let me clarify the logic problem --- it is not with the list property itself but rather with the movement. I have a boolean property call 'Forward' When I use the UI in HB to set the value to 1 HB then calls a function that is handled by the plugin. passes the "New" value of 1 but retains ...

I ahve been working on a new Media plugin for HouseBot and would like some suggestions on how to handle a particular problem. The plugin has a separate backend application that handles maintaining the database that the plugin sits on top of. The database can handle referencing thousands of song file...