Reaping list of Visuals

I am working on adding some functionality to JEmpeg. One of the things I would like to do is add a configuration panel to allow setting of the favorite visuals list in the config.ini.

I could have the user type in the names, but it'd be better if they could choose from a dropdown. Is there a way I can query the empeg for a list of current visuals names? Or am I gonna have to create a static list that I just need to maintain once in a while?

Cheers,
rjf&

I guess that functionality will become available when we add it to emplode - it's on the list!

Rob

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I guess that functionality will become available when we add it to emplode - it's on the list!

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Ah, I see. I can't scoop you guys, eh? I don't get to put it into jemplode until you guys get it in emplode...

Hmmm...
rjf&

If we could find out where to read the list from within the player's filesystems, then you'll be able to fetch the list with FTP from the "Hijack" enabled kernels, in the near future that is.. I'm working on the ftp server right now.

-ml

I'm working on the ftp server right now.

Yeah, it's been a couple of hours, where is it?

You're slowing down. A month ago, you would have had six releases of it by now.

I'm not sure what your point is.. the protocol support will be in there when we've implemented the feature because that's when we will need it. Why would we do only half the job and release that?

In any case I thought the protocol already supported manipulation of any config.ini entries, but I guess I could be wrong. I'm sure there are other approaches as well.

Rob

By the way, I was only aware of Mike and Daniel working on JEmpeg. They're both on our alpha team and get access to new features before the rest of the world just so that they can keep JEmpeg up to date. That's how come JEmpeg got 2.0 features at about the same time we release the Beta of Emplode 2.0.

Rob

It wasn't reading/writing config.ini that he was having problems with. He was trying to retrieve a list of visual names at run time.

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By the way, I was only aware of Mike and Daniel working on JEmpeg.

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The past few weeks I have been helping out. Their last beta included some work I did on bringing the Configure Player dialog closer to the emplode functionality.

My intention is to continue helping them whereever possible.

BTW, to be clear, I didn't mean to be 'copping' an attitude in my post, perhaps a smiley would have helped. My bad there. I was just hoping that you might have some information on a way to currently get the visuals list, even if it wasn't going to be the final standard way, i.e. something like "oh yeah, it's in this file here, or stored in flash there, etc, etc".

Cheers,
rjf&

There's a FID number for the visuals list at runtime. Toby put it in there a month ago or so. Don't know if it works, because I've (as you may have noticed) not had time to put this functionality into emplode.