Hi all,
Here's a screenshot of my desktop showing the MJ "toolbar" I jury-rigged to display in my Windows taskbar...
What you're seeing in my taskbar is an MJ Track Info page I created which is being shown using a javascript window command instead of a regular taskbar location. The javscript is pointing directly to the "generated" track info page in the MJ directory, to which I had to add a meta tag to make it refresh every few seconds. This is pretty close to exactly what I want - but not quite.
From the first screenshot, you can see in the lower right that I have a mini-skin running. This is for two reasons: first, to handle the commands (play, stop, next, etc). Second, to allow my taskbar page to refresh. You guys did a great job in programming MJ to not waste resources updating something that isn't being shown on the screen!! Unfortunately, it conflicts with my warped ideas of how to display MJ. If I don't have at minimum one pixel of the track info page displayed in the mini-skin view, that page in my taskbar won't refresh.
Here are my questions for you all:
1. Could anyone put together an "official" windows toolbar that can do what I'm doing here - but through Windows code instead of a patched-together javascript and HTML mess? I do web development, not C .
2. If not, can MJ commands be made available to use through HTML/JS calls? This would only be good if there is a way around the code that keeps my page from refreshing without a mini-skin visible. If I have to keep a mini-skin up anyway, then the HTML buttons would be redundant.
Any thoughts or ideas anyone has would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for the long read!
Thanks!
Matt L.
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Topic: MJ in Windows taskbar? (long-winded post) (Read 976 times)