Comments on: Guides for updating add-ons for Songbird 1.0

By: stevel

stevel — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:29:04 +0000

@Atreiu – It looks like we still have some bugs in our drop image for the album art display pane. I see similar behaviour in the stock Gonzo Feather…

Regarding the scrollbar issue, can you file that as a bug? That definitely seems broken.

By: atreiu

atreiu — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:38:27 +0000

@Stevel:
1.) I changed the drop-box-part, but it’s still not working right. Perhaps you can check out the drop-box / not-playing – behaviour in the latest update of my YABS-feather, to see what i mean?
Just play a little with “now playing” / “now selected” button and with play/pause on files with no album cover, an you’ll see the problem.

2.) I noticed that on installing my feathers to a new profile, on the first load of YABS, the scrollbar-buttons are not refreshed (remain grey like in default Gonzo). On second restart, everything is fine. No big deal, but it happens every time on a new profile.

It’s not urgent. We could wait for other Updates by feather-developers and see, if they ran into the same problems or if there’s just a problem with YABS.

By: stevel

stevel — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:43:38 +0000

@seba - It should be safe. We aren't planning to put anything additional feature-wise in. It's possible there may be bugs, but I'll post addendums to the Feather guide and to the Songbird developer Google Group as well.

By: seba

seba — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:40:15 +0000

Hey,
Is it safe to update my skin now already based on the current nightly builds?
I mean, will there still be changes to the skin, or is it more or less finished?

By: stevel

stevel — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:30:35 +0000

@atreiu: 1. It should still work with 0.7.. I think the only thing that could break is if you removed the two old servicepane images (the two that were deprecated in favour of having one toggle image). As long as you keep those side by side with the new image, it should work fine in 0.7 2. Yeah, set your minVersion to 0.8.0pre 3. It looks like I missed the drop-target stuff for Album Art, sorry! I went back and added a section covering that just now. I also just added another section on two new icons also now included in the Feather for add-on authors to use.

By: atreiu

atreiu — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:46:30 +0000

Is it possible, that in your update-guide, something is missing?

In the album-art-pane in “now selected”-state, the little box “nothing selected” does not disappear, if something IS selected but has no album art. This little box then hides the label “drag album art here” below it.

In the album-art-pane in “now playing”-state, the “drag album art here” (label & image) does not appear at all, only the “nothing selected” is shown.

I don’t have these problems with default-gonzo, only with my updated feather.

By: atreiu

atreiu — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:48:19 +0000

Thanks for the guidelines!

Two Questions:
1. Will the updated feather work perfectly with 0.7? Or should I change min-version?
2. I have to update some add-ons to versions, that have to work ONLY with the current Nightlys or later. What should be set for minVersion here? 0.8pre?

By: Jigar Shah

Jigar Shah — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:15:43 +0000

And Album Art Manager too..!!:)

By: GeekShadow

GeekShadow — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:37:21 +0000

This is great !
Thanks for these guides
btw you will need to update mashtape and coverflow screenshots on the main page of addons website