LCDHost Alpha 18

Posted by SirReal on July 7, 2011 4 comments

A quick release to fix the most glaring bugs in A17.

  • Limit polling to 60Hz (up from 40), don’t warn on limiting.
  • Text objects now default to anti-aliasing.
  • Text objects now default to their A16 sizes.

This time the autoupdater should handle things just fine. Or, get it from the LCDHost homepage.

LCDHost Alpha 17

Posted by Triscopic on July 7, 2011 0 comments

For anyone new to LCDHost, LCDHost is a compositing plugin manager for LCD’s. It’s primarily targeted towards the Logitech G19, but it will work with the G13 and G15 too.

Although A16 introduced auto-updating, because of the huge amounts of restructuring we’ve been coding right up to the wire. That means the A16 will have expired for most people by the time A17 was released and that means the auto-updater won’t be able to run – so if LCDHost does not run for you, please download A17 in the good old-fashioned way.

Here is a list of some of the things that are new:

What’s new in LCDHost alpha 17:

  • Rather massive internal restructuring to allow plugins to have setup items.
  • Allow linking of setup items to each other. Together with the above item, it allows the separation of data sources, like the system e-mail count, and data sinks, like an image showing a letter or some text showing the numeric count.
  • Allow instances to be hidden from view using plugin APIs.
  • Setting the web update checking interval now works.
  • Weather settings have moved from the layout to the “plugin settings” panel on the plugins page. Layouts will no longer need customising per user just to get the weather settings.
    • Due to time constraints, the weather translation features have been disabled. Expect these to make a return soon.
  • Cursors have had an overhaul – cursor pages now work as they should have done all along: place items inside a page and they will all be hidden when the page is not active. This does however mean old layouts using cursor pages will need updating.
  • Conditional Formatting: text and bar items now support conditional formatting – colours, fonts and more can be changed when the value meets certain criteria. Graphs and Dials will receive similar love and attention soon.
  • Monitoring items have had another overhaul: their value dependant formatting has been removed in favour of using the conditional formatting code (see the included Eos theme for more examples of how this is done).

Download link on the LCDHost homepage.

Late as usual.

Posted by SirReal on July 6, 2011 0 comments

Yes, I know it’s starting to expire… me and Triscopic are working furiously to get a new one out ASAP. Stay tuned.

LCDSirReal 2.8.5

Posted by SirReal on June 21, 2011 7 comments

A new version of LCDSirReal has been released. Get it from it’s homepage.

Changes in 2.8.5:

  • No longer by default restart LCDMon.exe (settings lcdmon_starting now defaults to 0)
  • No longer tries HID fallback by default (see the use_hid setting in lcdsirreal.txt)
  • Updated to work with the latest TS3 beta

LCDHost Alpha 16

Posted by SirReal on May 7, 2011 0 comments

For anyone new to LCDHost, LCDHost is a compositing plugin manager for LCD’s. It’s primarily targeted towards the Logitech G19, but it will work with the G13 and G15 too.

What’s new in LCDHost alpha 16:

  • LCDHost now has self-update capability, both for plugins and the main program.
  • Use Tools -> Updates to check the update settings.
  • What’s New display is now on the Welcome screen, not on the device.
  • Updated to Qt 4.7.3 for all platforms
  • OS/X now uses direct-to-hardware since Logitech does not provide 64-bit drivers.
  • HID and USB level drives provided for all platforms.
  • The G19 USB driver requires uninstallation of existing drivers before use.
  • With little in-house testing time, I fully expect this to be an extra-buggy alpha.
  • Report all bugs on the LCDHost issue tracker.
  • I would have liked to replace the g19-default layout, but unfortunately there wasn’t time. Pick your own favorite.
  • Includes a new g15-default layout for 160×43 devices by Ender91.
  • …and lots of other fixes and changes as well.

Download it on the home page.

Important information for OS/X users: LCDHost A16 for OS/X is now 64-bit. If you’re not running Snow Leopard, please consider updating. The Logitech drivers, however, are 32-bit only. This means that LCDHost can no longer use the Logitech drivers to access G13/G15/G19 devices. Sorry about that – but until Logitech releases 64-bit drivers, not much I can do except ask you to try the direct-to-hardware plugins LH_Lg320x240 and LH_Lg160x43. You lose out on the keymapping and backlighting features though. Unfortunately I can’t build a 32-bit version of LCDHost for OS/X, so you’re forced to choose between LCDHost and regular drivers at this point. Hopefully Logitech will release new drivers, and I’ll certainly add macroing and backlight support in the future.