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ataristic

2012-10-06 22:30

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

I've spent the whole evening tinkering with scripts to run with the Billboard and found one thing that I'd love to see: unicode support with the script output!

As it is, it seems that the output from a {script:} tag is always considered iso-8859-1 instead of UTF-8, which means I can't use all sorts of fancy characters in the script itself.

Also the script output always includes a newline, which can be troublesome too...

edit: actually, the newline can be skipped by putting a zero byte at the end of the output of the python script

ruplee76

2012-10-07 07:05

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

hello dear developer of billboard,
thank you very much for your wonderfull app.
this is just a request that can you please add an option of adding coloured logo of MEEGO? So that we can use it on the lockscreen?
thanks in advance

soryuuha

2012-10-07 08:12

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by ataristic (Post 1277410)

I've spent the whole evening tinkering with scripts to run with the Billboard and found one thing that I'd love to see: unicode support with the script output!

As it is, it seems that the output from a {script:} tag is always considered iso-8859-1 instead of UTF-8, which means I can't use all sorts of fancy characters in the script itself.

Also the script output always includes a newline, which can be troublesome too...

edit: actually, the newline can be skipped by putting a zero byte at the end of the output of the python script

any tips on how to put the zero bytes ? :)

ataristic

2012-10-07 13:47

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by soryuuha (Post 1277504)

any tips on how to put the zero bytes ? :)

Just put a \x00 escape code where you want the output to end (anything beyond it will be ignored, including the forced newline), like so:

print "this string ends here\x00(and this is ignored)"

slarti

2012-10-07 14:29

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Is this why I can't get äåö out of my script? Latin-1 seems to support them but how to output them to Billboard?

Edit:

Using string.encode('latin1') solves this.

Edit 2:

Change back to UTF-8 once Billboard 1.0.7 is out (just erase the .encode('latin1') from the end)

Win7Mac

2012-10-07 14:45

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Think I found a bug:
After watching a video with the default player, the title was still displayed after player was closed. Reboot emptied the line.

Still struggling with the python-script for uptime here.
My desktop is a Win7 and I used notepad++ for creating this script

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python

import datetime

seconds = int(float(open('/proc/uptime').read().split()[0]))

print str(datetime.timedelta(0, seconds))[:-3]

Coding was set to ANSI and I simply saved as python. Then copied it to /home/user, became root and tried

Code:

chmod +x /home/user/uptime.py

But got "operation not permitted". Where did I fail?

kai_en

2012-10-07 15:24

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Yeah, i have the video play back bug too.

thedead1440

2012-10-07 15:26

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

The video play back thing has been discussed on this thread several times...You can simply open an audio file, close it and it will also empty instead of doing a reboot...

It isn't a bug but more of the way the dbus (IIRC) works for video titles...

kai_en

2012-10-07 15:37

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by thedead1440 (Post 1277661)

ah okay, just bought the app, did not encounter this until someone talked about it just now. Anyway, I just remove the tag then since there's no solution to this. It's too bad that video and audio were not ' read' separately by the system and treated as the same thing otherwise, the solution can then just be ignoring video playback on the lps since nobody does that anyway, playing video while on standby.

Win7Mac

2012-10-07 15:58

Re: [Support thread] Billboard Standby Screen

Quote:

Originally Posted by thedead1440 (Post 1277661)

Thanks for the info.
Could you comment on the upime-script too, please?

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