1. Nexus Radio Final Released

Hello All,

If anyone is interested the new Nexus Radio is available for download. As I
previous posted a few months back the new version is completely free to download
and redistribute to friends and family.

For those who are not familiar with Nexus Radio it is completely written in
Euphoria(Excluding the external DLLs/Libraries), and compiled to C using the
translator.

~ C. Bouzy


"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."

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2. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

Oops..forgot the link :)

http://www.nexusradio.com/

~C. Bouzy

"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."

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3. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

C Bouzy wrote:
> 
> Oops..forgot the link :)
> 
> <a href="http://www.nexusradio.com/">http://www.nexusradio.com/</a>
> 
> ~C. Bouzy
> 
> "If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."

Hi,

Just to let you know, on your download page, with my 120 dpi screen, the link
to download the radio is offset to the left and some people might not find it.

--Quark

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4. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

Hi DB,

Thank you for the feedback but I was not able to reproduce the error on two
different machines. I changed both the DPI and browser font and the layout of the
site remained the same. I also viewed the site in different browsers with no
change to the layout. But I am not worried either way because very few users
change their DPI to higher values.

~C. Bouzy

"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."

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5. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

C Bouzy wrote:
> 
> Hi DB,
> 
> Thank you for the feedback but I was not able to reproduce the error on two
> different machines. I changed both the DPI and browser font and the layout of
> the site remained the same. I also viewed the site in different browsers with
> no change to the layout. But I am not worried either way because very few
> users
> change their DPI to higher values.
> 
> ~C. Bouzy
> 
> "If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."

Hi C,

Tnteresting that quote at the end of your reply... smile

Quote from an article at Microsoft Developer Network:

"Does your application work on high-density displays? Probably not. The
standard computer monitor today has a display of about 96 dots per inch (DPI),
and most applications assume that they are running on a 96-DPI display. But
that’s an increasingly dangerous assumption. Today, you can readily buy a
laptop with a 133-DPI display; 170-DPI displays are just around the corner,
and within the next few years, 200-DPI displays will be shipping in quantity.
The industry journal DisplaySearch predicts that 40 percent of laptop sales
will have greater than 100 DPI.."

--Quark

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6. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

DB James wrote:
> 
> C Bouzy wrote:
> > 
> > Hi DB,
> > 
> > Thank you for the feedback but I was not able to reproduce the error on two
> > different machines. I changed both the DPI and browser font and the layout
> > of
> > the site remained the same. I also viewed the site in different browsers
> > with
> > no change to the layout. But I am not worried either way because very few
> > users
> > change their DPI to higher values.
> > 
> > ~C. Bouzy
> > 
> > "If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."
> 
> Hi C,
> 
> Tnteresting that quote at the end of your reply... smile
> 
> Quote from an article at Microsoft Developer Network:
> 
> "Does your application work on high-density displays? Probably not. The
> standard computer monitor today has a display of about 96 dots per inch (DPI),
> and most applications assume that they are running on a 96-DPI display. But
> that’s an increasingly dangerous assumption. Today, you can readily buy a
> laptop with a 133-DPI display; 170-DPI displays are just around the corner,
> and within the next few years, 200-DPI displays will be shipping in quantity.
> The industry journal DisplaySearch predicts that 40 percent of laptop sales
> will have greater than 100 DPI.."
> 
> --Quark

It should be noted, the above mentioned article was dated March 2001, more than
6 years ago.

Larry Miller

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7. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

Larry Miller wrote:
> 
> DB James wrote:
> > 
> > C Bouzy wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi DB,
> > > 
> > > Thank you for the feedback but I was not able to reproduce the error on
> > > two
> > > different machines. I changed both the DPI and browser font and the layout
> > > of
> > > the site remained the same. I also viewed the site in different browsers
> > > with
> > > no change to the layout. But I am not worried either way because very few
> > > users
> > > change their DPI to higher values.
> > > 
> > > ~C. Bouzy
> > > 
> > > "If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."
> > 
> > Hi C,
> > 
> > Tnteresting that quote at the end of your reply... smile
> > 
> > Quote from an article at Microsoft Developer Network:
> > 
> > "Does your application work on high-density displays? Probably not. The
> > standard computer monitor today has a display of about 96 dots per inch
> > (DPI),
> > and most applications assume that they are running on a 96-DPI display. But
> > that’s an increasingly dangerous assumption. Today, you can readily buy a
> > laptop with a 133-DPI display; 170-DPI displays are just around the corner,
> > and within the next few years, 200-DPI displays will be shipping in
> > quantity.
> > The industry journal DisplaySearch predicts that 40 percent of laptop sales
> > will have greater than 100 DPI.."
> > 
> > --Quark
> 
> It should be noted, the above mentioned article was dated March 2001, more
> than
> 6 years ago.
> 
> Larry Miller

Hi Larry,

Good catch.  After I had quoted that, I did some more looking and didn't
find the prediction had come true.

Meanwhile I have been trying to research the issue, and have found
it obscure.  I have wondered if the assumption to 96 dpi might not be a
problem (I have had a few downloaded programs completely goofed by my
settings), but I now am more wandering in confusion, than wondering.  People
can, and do change the dpi, can a programmer take this into account?  Is it
worth the bother? -- at this point, I have no idea.

--Quark

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8. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

DB James wrote:
> 
> I have wondered if the assumption to 96 dpi might not be a
> problem

When you guys say this, are you talking about people who run higher res
desktops? Is this like going from 640x480 to 1024x768? I've just never
heard it referred to in relation to DPI.

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9. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

DB,

There are ways to keep the font style the same across multiple DPI settings. I
am not sure what is going on with your system but I have had a few other people
test the site under higher DPIs with no problems reported. What are your system
specs?

~C. Bouzy

"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."

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10. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

c.k.lester wrote:

> When you guys say this, are you talking about people who run higher res
> desktops? Is this like going from 640x480 to 1024x768? I've just never
> heard it referred to in relation to DPI.

Hi C.K.

The higher res is not the same as a higher DPI although they do relate with each
other.

1. Right click anywhere on your desktop and select proeprties.
2. Click settings.
3. Click advanced.
  




"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."

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11. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

C Bouzy wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> If anyone is interested the new Nexus Radio is available for download. As I
> previous posted a few months back the new version is completely free to
> download
> and redistribute to friends and family.
> 
> For those who are not familiar with Nexus Radio it is completely written in
> Euphoria(Excluding the external DLLs/Libraries), and compiled to C using the
> translator. 
> 
> ~ C. Bouzy
> 
> 
> "If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."

Hi C. Bouzy.
I tried your Nexus Radio and I am astonished.
I was trying to get a good net radio program and found none. All of them take
a long time to connect, and most times don't succeed. They have many other
drawbacks.
Instead, yours is wonderful: easy and fast connection, it doesn't usually
lose the connection, has a lot of effects (I'm only beginning to try them),
has a really large radio base, is free, doesn't contain adware, and more.
The only problem I noticed is this: in case the connection is lost,
it tells the station is not available, but if one tries again, the
connection is immediately restored. So, I think that a good added feature
would be retrying the connection automatically in this case.
Many thanks for this wonderful program. It shows that Euphoria is not a
toy language at all, but a extremely good tool for any programming task.

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12. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

C Bouzy wrote:
> 
> DB,
> 
> There are ways to keep the font style the same across multiple DPI settings.
> I am not sure what is going on with your system but I have had a few other
> people
> test the site under higher DPIs with no problems reported. What are your
> system
> specs?
> 
> ~C. Bouzy
> 
> "If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."

Hi,

The specs:

 From SETTINGS:
Monitor (flat-panel) is set at resolution of 1280x1024 and is running at
75 Hz on NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 100/200
DPI setting: Large size (120 DPI)

APPEARANCE:
Windows and buttons: Windows XP style
Color scheme: Default (blue)
Font size: Normal

Except for the dpi, it doesn't seem exceptional...Oh boy, I just rechecked
on your site and the problem has gone away.  As Roseanna Anna Danna used to
say: "Never mind" (scratching noggin).  However, I am still interested in
the dpi issue.  I am about ready to reset it to normal rather than have
otherwise good programs messed up such as one called Free Ultra Video Editor
that is currently real hard to use.

--Quark

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13. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

This dosen't have any thing to do with Watcon but I am having trouble with
get.e.

My code:
Under Windows:
global function load(sequence fileName)
  object fn, seq
    fn=open(fileName,"r")
   -- fn=3 here so db_create() and my_open() are not involed
  if fn=-1 then
     db_create(fileName)
     fn=my_open(fileName,"r")
  end if
  seq=get(fn)
  if seq[1]=GET_SUCCESS then -- (0)  -- GET_SUCCESS = 0
    close(fn)
    return seq[2]
  elsif seq[1]=GET_EOF then -- (-1)  -- GET_EOF = -1
    if platform()=DOS32 then
        set_active_page(0)
        set_display_page(0)
    end if
     puts(1,"GET_EOF ERROR")  
     return "GET_EOF ERROR"
  elsif seq[1]=GET_FAIL then -- (1)  -- GET_FAIL = 1
       printf(1,"in GET_FAIL fn=%d \n",{fn})
        if platform()=DOS32 then
            set_active_page(0)
            set_display_page(0)
        end if
     puts(1,"GET_FAIL")
     return "GET_FAIL"
  end if
end function

sequence info

info=load("Arwen.ew")

?info


I always returns GET_FAIL. The file is there it returns fn=3 ??C 

Bouzy wrote:
> 
> Hi DB,
> 
> Thank you for the feedback but I was not able to reproduce the error on two
> different machines. I changed both the DPI and browser font and the layout of
> the site remained the same. I also viewed the site in different browsers with
> no change to the layout. But I am not worried either way because very few
> users
> change their DPI to higher values.
> 
> ~C. Bouzy
> 
> "If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."


Don Cole

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14. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

Hello Ricardo,

Thank you for the kind words and I think everyone here knows EU is anything but
a toy language. I would like to note credit should also go to:

Matt Lewis: EUCom and Wrapping SkinCrafter
Elliott: Wrapping Bass
Derek Parnell: Win32Lib and critical feedback

And of course Robert Craig for developing a powerful but easy to use language.

~C. Bouzy

"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."

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15. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

don cole wrote:
> 
> This dosen't have any thing to do with Watcon but I am having trouble with
> get.e.
> 
> My code:
> Under Windows:
> }}}
<eucode>
> 
> global function load(sequence fileName)
>   object fn, seq
>     fn=open(fileName,"r")
>    -- fn=3 here so db_create() and my_open() are not involed
>   if fn=-1 then
>      db_create(fileName)
>      fn=my_open(fileName,"r")
>   end if
>   seq=get(fn)
>   if seq[1]=GET_SUCCESS then -- (0)  -- GET_SUCCESS = 0
>     close(fn)
>     return seq[2]
>   elsif seq[1]=GET_EOF then -- (-1)  -- GET_EOF = -1
>     if platform()=DOS32 then
>         set_active_page(0)
>         set_display_page(0)
>     end if
>      puts(1,"GET_EOF ERROR")  
>      return "GET_EOF ERROR"
>   elsif seq[1]=GET_FAIL then -- (1)  -- GET_FAIL = 1
>        printf(1,"in GET_FAIL fn=%d \n",{fn})
>         if platform()=DOS32 then
>             set_active_page(0)
>             set_display_page(0)
>         end if
>      puts(1,"GET_FAIL")
>      return "GET_FAIL"
>   end if
> end function
> 
> sequence info
> 
> info=load("Arwen.ew")
> 
> ?info
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> I always returns GET_FAIL. The file is there it returns fn=3 ??C 
> 
> Bouzy wrote:
> > 
> > Hi DB,
> > 
> > Thank you for the feedback but I was not able to reproduce the error on two
> > different machines. I changed both the DPI and browser font and the layout
> > of
> > the site remained the same. I also viewed the site in different browsers
> > with
> > no change to the layout. But I am not worried either way because very few
> > users
> > change their DPI to higher values.
> > 
> > ~C. Bouzy
> > 
> > "If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."
> 
> 
> Don Cole

Could you post the first line(s) of the file you are trying to read from, as
they appear in Notepad for instance?
get() reads a valid Euphoria object string representation (the kind sprint()
returns), otherwise it fails.
So if the first line is, say "include dll.e", the string "include" is not an
object representation and get() returns {GET_FAIL,whatever}.
If you want the first line of the file returned, use gets() instead. Otherwise,
I am not sure of what you want to achieve.

CChris

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16. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

Hi C. Bouzy again.
Another issue: When installing, it doesn't warn that it changes file
associations, for example for MP3.
Regards.

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17. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

C Bouzy wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> If anyone is interested the new Nexus Radio is available for download. As I
> previous posted a few months back the new version is completely free to
> download
> and redistribute to friends and family.
> 
> For those who are not familiar with Nexus Radio it is completely written in
> Euphoria(Excluding the external DLLs/Libraries), and compiled to C using the
> translator. 
> 
> ~ C. Bouzy
> 
> 
> "If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."


Christopher,

*Very* nice!  Also somewhat addictive smile

Is there any way to run it from non-administrator account?
Can you add "New Age" genre?
What does "Filter" do?

Dan Moyer

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18. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

Hello Dan,

Thanks for the kind words. Nexus might or might not run on non-administrator
accounts, not sure why it works on some systems and doesn't work on others.

Filters are used to record specific songs and/or artists. Just enter the name(s)
of the song(s) and/or artist(s) and Nexus will only record songs with keywords in
the filter list. Just connect to a station, press record, and Nexus will do the
rest.

C. Bouzy




"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got."

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19. Re: Nexus Radio Final Released

C Bouzy wrote:
> 
> Hello Dan,
> 
> Thanks for the kind words. Nexus might or might not run on non-administrator
> accounts, not sure why it works on some systems and doesn't work on others.
> 
> Filters are used to record specific songs and/or artists. Just enter the
> name(s)
> of the song(s) and/or artist(s) and Nexus will only record songs with keywords
> in the filter list. Just connect to a station, press record, and Nexus will
> do the rest.
> 
> C. Bouzy
> 
Christopher,

Yeah, I get an error message, something about "Incorrect Privileges",
 "..login using account with admin privileges..".  And I *think* it installed
from the non-admin account just fine.  

That "Filter" sounds nice, so of course here's a suggestion to "spiff" it up:
allow that Nexus does NOT have to be connected to a *particular* station, but
either SCANS the info headers of *all*, or just user specified stations, looking
for the filter terms on *any* of them, then connecting & recording as found.

Just an idea.  smile

Dan

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