[slinkelist] Help - Can't get 3rd party stuff to talk to CDJ

[John Shankland]

You need to set CDJ so that it uses slinkeserve. I'm at work so I don't=20
have access to the app, but it's somewhere in the preferences.


At 10:51 AM 11/1/2000 -0800, Jim Glidewell wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've had a slink-e for a while, but only recently started
>using CDJ. One of the things that I _really_ want out of
>a jukebox system like this is a "now playing" option.
>
>It appears that there are a couple of 3rd party add-ons
>(2 screensavers & Party GUI) which will do this sort
>of thing. But... I can't seem to get any of them to
>work.
>
>Configuration: Dell Pentium 100, Windows 95, CDJ 10/13/00,
>current versions of the screensavers and PartyGUI. CDJ
>installed in the standard place.
>
>It appears that none of these tools "see" the CDJ application.
>They can see the files (at least Party GUI can) but there
>doesn't see to be any communication (status or control)
>between the "helper" apps and CDJ.
>
>What I see:
>
>Party GUI - runs, sees my CD database, also sees my playlists.
>None of the buttons do anything except change the Party GUI
>screen itself. No playlists created/modified either, near as
>I can tell.
>
>Slinkysaver - sits waiting on the opening screen for CDJ to
>start (it's already running)
>
>CDSaver - Black screen, regardless of the colors set in the
>settings window. Kinda hard to tell what is going on... :-)
>
>I did a pretty generic CDJ installation. And I tried to
>follow the README's for the three helper apps.
>
>Here are some issues I'm not clear on (I don't know how
>Windows inter-app communication works at all):
>
>Do these tools require cdjserver, or CDJ, or either?
>
>Do I need to install something "extra" besides a standard
>Win95 install to make the IAC stuff work? Special COM/DCOM
>install or sumptin'? (I recall that the CDJ installer did
>some extra MS install...)
>
>Does the registry come into play here? (shudder)
>
>Does anybody have any debugging suggestions?
>
>Finally:
>
>How does one force the screensaver to run?
>
>I set my "idle" time down to a minute and it never blanks
>(while running CDJ) My screensaver testing has all been
>through the "Preview" option in the properties window.
>Are there options in CDJ which prevent the screensaver
>from activating (animated icon, for example)?
>
>I'm really hoping I've missed something pretty obvious, or
>skipped a simple but essential step. I plan on going back
>and rereading the READMEs, etc. this evening, but I thought
>that somebody might be able to point me to my "Doh!" mistake.
>
>Thanks for your help...
>
>Jim
>--
>Jim Glidewell
>jim_glidewell@yahoo.com
>
>
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