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i've just released on my website a test version of my new notepad application.
this script is intended to make it possible to do some very low-level editing of text files directly on your xbox.
here's the thing: i'm very excited about this script, and about the progress i've made on it today, but i'm not going to have any time over the weekend to test/finalize it.
i wanted to go ahead and make it available, in case any of you want to start doing some initial testing for me, and let me know what's glaringly wrong. that way i can start fixing it on monday. :-)
the readme goes into some detail, but not a lot. note that undo is mapped to the "b" button and redo is the "y" button. i don't think i mentioned that in my readme.
it'll take some fiddling with it to figure out how it's designed to work (if it works at all), so i recommend that you start with a test.txt, rather than, say, your xboxmediacenter.xml....
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funny story! (well, only funny if you've read the "readme.txt". and even then...not that funny....)
anyway!
i got home from work yesterday, had a little time available to test my script, and was amazed to find that it worked the first time! well...y'know, the buttons worked, my openfile dialog worked....
so i was showing off for my wife, and she asked how it could be actually useful, and i showed her an example. i opened up my xboxmediacenter.xml and added another smb share to my my pictures (i've been meaning to add it forever). saved, exited (which took a while, because saving is being freaky), and then rebooted the xbox.
and you probably know what's coming next. big ol' error, because there was no information at all in xboxmediacenter.xml. there's currently something horribly wrong with my save feature (which i think might be locked hard drive, but i'm not sure).
so, anyway, take the warnings in "readme.txt"s seriously. i mean it!
i definitely need to increase the size of the cursor icons--they're insanely tiny. i can't imagine what they'd look like on a 1080i. at least the red x is clearly a red x.
oh! also, the xbmc keyboard is limited to text no longer than the width of the keyboard's input box. i never expected that. that'll be a major limitation. i can always add an "append" type cursor, but that's pretty lame. maybe i can talk to the devs and get some help outta them....
anyway, i'll keep you posted. i will be gone for the next two days, so no updates for a little while. but please feel free to fiddle around with the script, and let me know if you have any success or, when you have failures, let me know specifically what failed. :-)
thanks,
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i use the text editor in unleashx quite alot. if you get it working properly i will definatly use it.
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hmm....
i've looked into unleashx's editor, and it's very impressive. i'll contact them and ask if they'd mind me recreating their methods (for the sake of consistency), and if they don't mind...then i'll get to redesign my whole editor. :-)
it's pretty impressive, though! i wish i could do all that right away. some of the controller's buttons aren't mapped (apparently) in xbmc python, so that could be a drawback ("y" and black both send "0", for instance).
thank you very much for the comment, amything. i realize you weren't trying to push unleashx's utility, i just didn't realize there were other editors out there when i started mine, so i didn't take the opportunity before to look for good examples of how to do things.
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i've made some major improvements to notepad's functionality. please test it thoroughly (and, for now, carefully ;-), and let me know what kinda results you get.
i still haven't done anything to get it working like unleashx's; i've just fixed some of what was broken with the first release (like forced saves that left you with 0-byte files).
you can find notepad on my website.
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kyd, which build are you using?
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darkie, is that your problem or mine? i don't get that error on my xbox, but then i'm using xbmc 1.0. anyone else getting it?
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have you found out anything about the errors?
im tired of having to start unleashx to get a decent text editor....
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should be fixed! download it from my website and please let me know.
i still feel like it was a problem with xbmc python. for some reason setnavigation stopped working. it would throw an error even when it was passed the right objects. so i just replaced it with parallel functions (that take up more space).
anyway. i need to do the same thing with scriptionary. it'll be updated in a few minutes. i don't think i have anything else in release that uses setnavigation.
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i am using the latest build and the script dont run at all
eveytime i click on it it just flash real quick ( running ) and dissapers.......
you othere scripts work, just note pad dont...
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run it again, and after (running) disappears, hit the white button on your controller. this will bring up the debug window, with any error messages.
if you could do that and let me know what error it shows, i might be able to fix it for you.
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i've ended up using this script a hell of a lot: its really useful if you have your xbox away from your pc.
not that its a big problem, but i was wondering if you know of a way i can alter it to make it fit pal screens.
