For items over an hour, such as 1:13:00, both the players and the playlist show a duration of 13.00. For sure, it appears to be only 13 minutes rather than an 1 hour and 13 minutes. (the browser correctly shows 1:13:00). Programs which are exactly 60 minutes are listed as 0:00.0. Please, is there any way to change this? I know that the time formats in Configuration allow for the full hour but I wish to keep the fractional second countdown. I’m looking for the display to show 1:13:00.0 or, as an alternative, show 73.00.0 .
Also, on another question, is there anyway to hide the small clock display, which is located at the bottom right of the screen?
Thank you for the effort on all my many questions. I love this program!
Sure: what you need is a format of h:nn:ss.u, which you need to type into the time format boxes because it isn’t a standard option. The dropdown just contains common formats, so any other format string you want to use needs to be typed in. Remember that you need to type this time format in for every Player and for the Playlist! I use this format myself for my Players: maybe Torben should consider adding it to the dropdown as a ‘standard’ one?
Er, not that I’m aware of. That time-of-day clock isn’t just a display (try double-clicking it!). This allows you to manually adjust or change the mAirList ‘internal’ time, separately from the Windows date and time. This can sometimes be useful for example if you are recording a show ‘as-live,’ because the mAirList clock and LED clock will show the ‘correct’ time of day for the show you’re recording: geddit?!?!!!
Delighted that you love mAirList as much as the rest of us!
Thank you for the reply. I made the changes to the time and it’s working perfectly. Okay, I understand the clock display now… Thanks!
I’m wondering whether you can give me a little guidance. Now, the extended time display does not fit within the “duration” column on the playlist. I can drag the column a little larger each time I open mAirList, but I’m hoping for a permanent configuration. Can I add this to skin.ini or edit the width in another configuration file. I’ve looked but locate such a file. I have a similiar problem with the “duration” display on the browser. I must drag it all the way to the right each time I open the browser.
Also, the EOF countdown overlay now displays: 0:00:10.0. Is there a way to change this to a shorter display, such as 0:10.0 or :10.0?
Finally, let me say that you have given me a considerate amount of help over the past months. I do appreciate very much all your effort
You can edit the width of the Playlist columns in skin.ini. I don’t have the exact details to hand right now, but you need to add a ColumnWidths=a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h line to the [Playlists] section. Each letter represents a column width in pixels. The number of columns I’ve shown may not be correct :D: just use as many numbers as the number of columns in your Playlist.
If skin.ini doesn’t exist in your configuration files folder (look under Advanced, Data Folders in Config to find that folder), you need to create it manually.
Correct. There’s no way that I know of to change that behaviour! You just have to drag the column headings.
I presume by ‘EOF countdown overlay’ you mean the Ramp countdown overlay which appears over the Playlist? Although used for EOF countdowns as well, it’s intended for Ramp countdowns. If so, open Config, click Playlists, Playlist 1, Display tab; then change Time Formats, Ramp to ss.u or just ss if you want only seconds.
No problem: it’s the least I can do until the English manual is finished. The manual is now over 60% complete. ;D
“I presume by ‘EOF countdown overlay’ you mean the Ramp countdown overlay which appears over the Playlist? Although used for EOF countdowns as well, it’s intended for Ramp countdowns. If so, open Config, click Playlists, Playlist 1, Display tab; then change Time Formats, Ramp to ss.u or just ss if you want only seconds”.
Yes, the warning over the playlist. Actually, I have the “Show EOF Warning Countdown Overlay” checked and that appears to enable the EOF overlay that I’m talking about. I played around with the “ramp” settings and that doesn’t seem to do anything to the overlay. Perhaps something that could be solved in skin.ini?
Alec: I’ll investigate further and get back to you, but are you certain you are changing the Ramp time format string on the Playlist 1 page and NOT on any Player pages, within Conifg?
I’m sure there are (?) settings available to alter the Time format of the Playlist Overlay Ramp and EOF Warning countdowns, but I am also fairly certain (?) that you have to manually add them to the gui.ini file.
I tried a few ‘obvious’ setting names myself and I can’t seem to alter them. ???
The EOF warning overlay is supposed to use the same time format as the “duration” column, and the ramp overlay uses the format for the “ramp” column. Both overlays respect the “auto-truncate time” option. If you see any inconsistency, please let me know.
Yes, it appears that auto-truncate is not working for the EOF overlay countdown. I have both ‘auto-truncate’ and ‘show minimum of two digits’ enabled under ‘Playlist 1, GUI.’ The EOF overlay is showing the same time display as the playlist duration (ex: 0.00.010.0) and doesn’t fit on the screen
I would prefer it to truncate and show 0:10.0 or something similiar.
It’s no big deal to introduce a separate format string for the EOF overlay. If it wasn’t for the config dialog redesign, which is always annoying work
Anyway, it seems like I finally came up with a solution for the “invididual format vs. auto-truncate” issue explained in the post I mentioned. I just uploaded Build 768 as a snapshot.
In that version, you can insert a “!” sign somewhere in the time format string. The purpose of the sign is to advise the truncate function how many characters may be removed at the beginning of the string, and how many characters must remain in the final string.
For example, when you enter “hh:n!n:ss”, you allow the truncate function to remove the trailing “hh:n” part of the string (only if all digits are 0, of course), but leave the the “n:ss” part intact in any case. For instance, a 45 seconds item will be displayed as “0:45”.
[FX: Wanders off muttering … ] I’ll add that to the Manual. :
If you plan to do that, PLEASE also add a separate time format string for the Ramp overlay? :-*
That would be the most flexible option. If the RampOverlay and/or EOFOverlay time format strings are empty, they would ‘inherit’ the Ramp and Duration formats just as they do now (backwards compatibility! ;)).
Oddly, I’ve always enjoyed dialog design (and re-design) … is Delphi ‘worse’ than Visual Studio for that? I’ve never used the Delphi GUI for form/dialog design.
You just have to drag the column headings.
If so, open Config, click 