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Billy

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:00 am
by Pako
My favourite audio players are foobar2000 and Billy.
Billy is simple and extremely fast.
I have created a plugin for him.
This plugin is based on MonsterMagnet's plugin for foobar2000.
Thanks MonsterMagnet !
I've written two versions of plugin. I dont know, which is better.

Pako

Re: Plugin for audio player Billy

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:01 pm
by Bitmonster
The plugin seems to work over the win32api.keybd_event function, which will only work if the application is in the foreground. Have you tried if Billy is able to receive emulated keystrokes if it resides in the background and you target it with EG's FindWindow action?

Re: Plugin for audio player Billy

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:36 pm
by Pako
In the background work it very well, action FindWindow really there's no need !
They are it really Global Hotkeys.
Pako

Re: Plugin for audio player Billy

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:23 pm
by Bitmonster
Pako wrote:They are it really Global Hotkeys.
Pako
Ah, I see.

Re: Plugin for audio player Billy

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:09 am
by Pako
It is consequently completely unavailing, that?
Pako

Re: Plugin for audio player Billy

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:35 pm
by Pako
I try make version without Global Hot Keys.
Already me it a almost functionate.
Pako

Re: Plugin for audio player Billy

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:19 am
by Pako
Here is. It is already better ?
Pako

Re: Plugin for audio player Billy

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:23 pm
by Bitmonster
I will have to try it out, but I have too little time these days. So we will have to wait till next week.

Re: Plugin for audio player Billy

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:46 am
by Bitmonster
Added to 0.3.4.1149.

Re: Plugin for audio player Billy

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:30 am
by Pako
Bitmonster wrote:Added to 0.3.4.1149.
I hope, that it somebody utilize!
Let me have please know.

Pako

Re: Billy

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:26 pm
by Pako
Right now I release a new version (0.3.5) of Billy plugin.
The main changes:
1) It was integrated On Screen Menu for choosing playlists (Favorites).
The menu reads the data either from the folder Billy\Favorites (standard location), or from any other directory!
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2) I created a small program "Start_Billy_Events.exe". He reads title of Billy windows and at each him change generates a event for EventGhost.
It is therefore very easy using the "Show OSD" to display the name of the file played.
To run "Start_Billy_Events.exe" along with "Billy.exe" you must mark a check box in the dialog to configure plug-in.
Program "Start_Billy_Events.exe" was created as a Python script and compiled by program py2exe.
Program "Start_Billy_Events.exe" by itself ensure, that he will be launched only once.
For stopping (killing) of program "Start_Billy_Events.exe" serve program " Stop_Billy_Events.exe".
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Download:
http://pako.aspone.cz/download/Start_Billy_Events.exe (3409 kB)
http://pako.aspone.cz/download/Stop_Billy_Events.exe (2691 kB)

Pako