Help with Orange plugin

[Guest scott2eyes]

I'm trying to get a SmartMonitor plugin into the Orange E200/C500 plugin, but it doesn't seem to work.

What I'm aiming for is 2 rows, with 3 plugins taking up each row, and the Smartmonitor plugin at the far right hand side of the screen.

I've managed to get the first 2 working fine, and the third one working OK with different plugins, but I can't get the SmartMonitor to show up.

Here's the code I've got so far for the first row (the second is pretty much the same idea, and the SmartMonitor code works fine outside the Orange plugin.);

<plugin height="16" width="100%" handlekeys="CHILD" clsid="{A2536C57-6AC2-4c31-9542-B144B0E9D077}">

  <format padding-right="0" padding-left="0" bgcolor="transparent"/>

  <background padding-left="0" bgcolor="transparent"/>

 	 <shortcut width="56" height="16">

    <plugin clsid="{A2536C54-6AC2-4c31-9542-B144B0E9D077}" height="16" wrap="1" autohide="1" autoheight="0" action="\windows\tmail.exe">

   	 <format padding-bottom="0" padding-top="0"/>

   	 <format state="selected" padding-bottom="0" padding-top="0" padding-left="0"/>

   	 <format font-size="16" fgcolor="#000000" bgtext="transparent" bgcolor="transparent" />

   	 <label><text><sms/><mms/><email/><vmail/></text></label>

    </plugin>

 	 </shortcut>

 	 <shortcut width="74" height="16">

    <plugin height="16" file="sysplug.dll" clsid="{E09043DF-510E-4841-B652-388316977A7A}">

   	 <background bgcolor="transparent" left-padding="0"/>

   	 <clock>

   	 <date/>

   	 </clock>

    </plugin>

 	 </shortcut>

 	 <shortcut width="46" height="16">

    <plugin file="\Storage\Application Data\Home\monitorplugin.dll" clsid="{05E393E9-1712-41ac-B9D3-533B52F10A36}" name="SmartMonitor" selectable="false" height="16">

   	 <background state="unselected" bgcolor="transparent"/>

   	 <format state="unselected"

      bgtext="transparent" 

      bgcolor="transparent"

      padding-left="0" padding-right="0" padding-top="0" padding-bottom="0"

      font-face="nina" font-size="12" font-weight="normal"/>


   	 <monitor state="unselected">

      <meterbar x="0" y="0" image-full="\Storage\Application Data\Home\SRN\Sigfull.bmp" image-empty="\Storage\Application Data\Home\SRN\Sigempty.bmp" bar-direction="left-right" type="signal-strength" transparent-color="#FEFEFE"/>

      <signal x="5" y="0" color="#000000">{strength-percentage}%</signal>

   	 </monitor>

    </plugin>

 	 </shortcut>

</plugin>

I thought it might be something to do with the "file" attribute, as that's one of the bits I don't really understand? (Tried leaving it out, but to no avail.)

Am I missing something really obvious? Or does the Orange plugin just not like non-standard plugins? (I'm sure I've seen other non-standard plugins working in it OK though.)

Can anyone shed any light?

[Guest drblow]

Did someone ask for a doctor? :D

All I can tell you is that I have had the same difficulty myself before, and never found a way to do it. :cry: There just seems to be some plugins that the e200 plugin can't/won't like. I think the media player plugin is about the only one I ever got to work.

[Guest scott2eyes]

:D

Damn...

I found the BioRhythms plugin to behave quite oddly (kind of spreads itself across different shortcuts), but these are the only two I've had problems with so far.

(Mind you, it's early days!)

[Guest drblow]

You could always try giving Al a shout (drfonz). He's a nice guy, he might be able to help!