Another new release of empegTaxi.

This one adds a number of new features, including simple connection buttons and something new in the config department... =)

http://nrg.nu/files/empegTaxi.zip

Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 12 gig #40. Mk1 4 gig #30. Mk3 1.6 16v)

COOL new feature. Excellent!

One note: If you do a "get config" after connecting to the player, the "Search" button in the file list screen gets grayed out.

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Tony Fabris

Drat, I should have spotted that one... =)

Updated version available
http://nrg.nu/files/empegTaxi.zip

Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 12 gig #40. Mk1 4 gig #30. Mk3 1.6 16v)

Cool, thanks!

I'm having just a tiny bit of trouble with this one, and I don't know if it's your fault or mine.

As you know, I have to put in more than one "q" to get it to drop to the shell as it goes past more than one piece of software to get the job done. I've added multiple q commands to the config screen, but only the first one seems to be showing up on the serial debug port. The second piece of software to only intermittently get a Q. Did you change the way that was handled since the last version?

Funny thing is that it worked fine the first time I ran it, and only on subsequent runs has there been a problem.

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Tony Fabris

I fixed a setting save bug... Check the exit command box has what you expect in it... (Sometimes it would go blank, and then would use the default of a single q)

When the player exit routine is called, It pauses for a half a second between each line, so you can always add more q's if that seems to be the problem.

Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 12 gig #40. Mk1 4 gig #30. Mk3 1.6 16v)

I fixed a setting save bug... Check the exit command box has what you expect in it... (Sometimes it would go blank, and then would use the default of a single q)

No, it's got all the Q's in it. I think I had three, and I added more, they're all there.

When the player exit routine is called, It pauses for a half a second between each line, so you can always add more q's if that seems to be the problem.

Hm. I'm not seeing any Q's actually echoed to the serial console past the first one. Is it possible that it's playing the default single q, but showing my multiple qs in the box?

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Tony Fabris

By the way, the registry entry for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Jazzwire\empegTaxi\ExitCommand looks correct.

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Tony Fabris

Well, I'm now very confused...

The code basically says if the box contains more than no lines, then for each line send it to the serial port, then wait half a second.
If it has no lines in the box, then it sends a single q...
After all the lines have been sent, it waits for the command prompt.

I can't see how it would display 3 q's in the box, but only send one.
About the only thing I can think of is to reduce the time wait (non configurable from the front end, sorry).

Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 12 gig #40. Mk1 4 gig #30. Mk3 1.6 16v)

Can you think of a reason that the timer code might be messed up, and accidentally wait too long or not wait at all? For instance, if it were re-using a timer handle that was already in use?

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Tony Fabris

And when are you going to get on ICQ so we can do real-time chats?

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Tony Fabris

Hmmm. I changed the timeout value from 30 to 13, erased and re-entered the Q's, and it started working again. HMMMM...

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Tony Fabris

Never really used ICQ, as the last time I tried my ICQ client, it was out of date and woudn't connect.

I'm not using a timer as such, I'm using sleep (Seemed like a good idea at the time... =)

Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 12 gig #40. Mk1 4 gig #30. Mk3 1.6 16v)

Well, if it works... =)

Be aware you'll likely get a serial timeout warning when remounting the drives read/write in the config.ini tool, make sure you keep waiting when asked... =)

Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 12 gig #40. Mk1 4 gig #30. Mk3 1.6 16v)

Speaking of serial timeouts, just for grins, I tried searching for everything (blank text in the search box), and it works, but it starts timing out on the Getting Sizes part, waiting for the #.

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Tony Fabris

Yeah, that's the test I use...
The serial timeouts get doubled for searches, and remouting... I might add a config box for that...
(The blank search, when coupled with checkboxes in the listview is the first interface for the multiple download functionality. Hopefully I'll be able to parse the database into a tree structure in a later version...)

Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 12 gig #40. Mk1 4 gig #30. Mk3 1.6 16v)

The serial timeouts get doubled for searches, and remouting... I might add a config box for that...

Actually, when I search for everything on the empeg, the timeouts are because the player has locked up. I looked at the serial debug, and after the LS command to get the file sizes, it gives me:

IRQ LOCK: IRQ17 is locking the system, disabled

And then after that, a bunch of:

ttyS1: 1 input overrun(s)

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Tony Fabris

Hmmm...
I had to change the way that works (to fix the problem of files on multiple drives), and it's no longer suited to a large number of files.

Just another reason why the multi download stuff is missing from the public version at the moment... =)

(edit)
I think I've fixed the "ls" problem in my development version, we'll find out when Alpha 8 appears... =)

Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 12 gig #40. Mk1 4 gig #30. Mk3 1.6 16v)

Edited by Jazzwire on 31/07/01 12:51 AM.

Heh, understandable.

One other thing I found.

If you do a search, download a file, then do another (different) search, it doesn't automatically get the file sizes for the second search.

Also: The thing with the "q"s not working really does seem to be related to my changing the contents of the boxes in the configuration screen. When I change those boxes (say, by adding or removing a Q and changing the timeout value), then it works after that until the next run when it fails again. STRANGE.

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Tony Fabris

Hmmm, I've tested the second search here, and it works perfectly (with the released version of 7a).

What OS are you running?

Just for kicks, can you try switching to the Configuration tab (but don't change any values) then try to connect.

Jazz
(List 112, Mk2 12 gig #40. Mk1 4 gig #30. Mk3 1.6 16v)

Look here for Hugo's explaination of the IRQ17 issue. I've only seen it once, but if the empegtaxi program is managing to do this several times, it might help to uncover a bug.

Yep, that description is exactly what was happening with EmpegTaxi. Too much text heading into the empeg's serial port caused it to happen, then the serial port slowed down to a crawl.

Jazzwire: You could work around this in EmpegTaxi by figuring out how to do the work in measured chunks instead of all at once.

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Tony Fabris

Hmm, just switching to the configuration tab and back again seemed to work. At least that time.

Whenever it fails, it appears to be falling back on its default "single q" just like you said it would.

Try it yourself. Enter several Q items in the configuration tab and try different ways of starting the program and connecting. When it fails, you can clearly see only one Q in the serial debug screen, yet when it works, you can see all of them.

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Tony Fabris