2013-01-05, 06:16
(2013-01-05, 05:22)msfc Wrote: Why can't AS be properly integrated with Confluence, e.g. as a visualization add-on? It took me months after I first installed it to realize that I needed to install modified skin files in order for it to work. That I have to keep manually doing this after XBMC upgrades is a PITA. It is a visualization choice and should appear in the visualization selection menu along with ProjectM etc.
Visualizations are a completely different beast. I actually looked at writing one, but I believe they have to be written in something like C++ and compiled for every platform. That was well outside my abilities. When I found AS it was already a mature plugin, so I volunteered to take over the maintenance and add new features. Most folks do one of two things. They either use a skin that has AS support built in or make a copy of the Confluence skin, modify it (including changing the name and ID of the skin in addon.xml), and then don't have to worry every time XBMC is upgraded.
Quote:At a bare minimum, when AS is installed it needs to tell the user of need to manually install these customized skin files.
I will look to see what it would take to do that. I know the Hulu plugin posts a prompt after every upgrade of the plugin, so I might be able to adapt that.
