G-Series Gaming Keyboards

[JoshuaC]

Charles thank for keeping us posted about the game panel info. I am very excited. I just purchased my g13. It is such a great device and the potential is huge. I am ready to help logitech anyway i can. If you guys need help beta testing. I am always here. I cant wait till we can start coding our own applets for the g series. 

thanks man  

[CharlesB]

Theodric- We know. For development stability, we kept the program layout on both the Mac and the PC, and while on PCs it's easy to get things to run in their side dock, in the Mac, it's a bit more... visible We're exploring multiple ways to handle this right now.

[Looki]

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Chris_P wrote:

Until Blizzard updates WoW to support the LCD on the Mac client, it will not display your characters' stats in the game.  This is something that should happen at some point in the future, but it is not possible for me to say when or even that it definitively will happen, as it is Blizzard's decision as to whether they will support the LCD.  Other applications, such as Ventrilo, are in a similar situation.  Once the Mac LCD SDK is available and distributed to developers, we should get a clearer indication of their intentions.

I am not sure why the software is "expiring" and will discuss with the engineering team as to why this may be happening. 

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Chris and Charles, do you have any update on WoW compatibility on mac ? 

[CharlesB]

Since there's other companies involved, and NDAs covering almost everything I can say.... well:

Blizzard is a 3rd party company and I cannot comment on their development cycle or potential features for their software. Blizzard has done a great job on their mac version of WoW, and I'm quite sure they're aware of the mac community's demand for such a feature. Blizzard would be the ones to comment on if and when a mac LCD applet would be released, as they tend to be very good about announcing features for their point releases.

[Theodric]

I love NDAs

That's good news anyway. Looking forward to the WoW module for G-series. 

[JoshuaC]

Hi Charles i just wanted to let you know that the Performance Monitor on the G13 is incorrect. It is only polling the free memory of the mac. It should also be polling the inactive memory. Inactive memory is also available to the system. Right now the memory monitor say's that my system memory is 96% used But actually i have only used %50.  

Here are mysystem specs incase you need them:

iMac mid 2007

OS X 10.5.6

2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 

4 Gb 667 MHz DDR2 sdram

300 GB HD with 117 GB Free

ATI Radeon HD2600 with 256 MB of Ram   

I have included a few pictures for you to see what is going on 

Performance monitor on the G13. Sorry for the blurry pic took it quick with my iPhone. and also my Activity Monitor Memory screen Showing the inactive and free ram 

Message Edited by JoshuaC on 01-21-2009 02:50 PM

[CharlesB]

You know, I saw that once, and when I restarted, it went away. Could you try restarting for me?

[JoshuaC]

I have rebooted and it looks good for a while and then it gets full again according to Performance monitor. I found this support document on apples Knowledge base it is great read

The bottom sections Called Additional Information What does all this mean?   was very informitive

 Reading system memory usage in Activity Monitor.

[toocoolracing]

I have noticed this same behavior with the Memory and the Display. And noticed the Free vs. Inactive. However, regardless of whether it's Free or Inactive I have, also, noticed that when it hits 99.xx% WoW starts hiccuping and when it goes down to 97% or so, WoW stops hiccuping.

Computer I have is a 24" iMac with 2GB RAM. 

[Jmp478]

I posted this forum topic on how to fix the LCD Media Display applet to show song information for intenet radio webcasts, and I thought I would post it here as a suggestion.

The Media Display applet only shows the station name, and not the song title or artist. I modified the Applescript to add this function. The link to the original post is at the bottom.

The LCD Software Media Display included in Logitech's Gamepanel Software shows the song title, artist, and other information from iTunes. It lacks one feature, though. While listening to an internet radio webcast the LCD screen only shows the name of the station, but not the song title or artist.

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Replace the following bold text in iTunesInfo.scpt

tell application "iTunes"
	set this_name to the name of current track
	set this_artist to the artist of current track
	set this_album to the album of current track
	set songDuration to the duration of current track
	set artwoks1 to artworks of current track
	set artworkData to ""
...

Replace with this:

tell application "iTunes"
	if (class of current track is URL track) and (get current stream title) is not missing value then
		set this_name to (get current stream title)
		set this_artist to name of current track
	else
		set this_name to the name of current track
		set this_artist to the artist of current track
	end if
	set this_album to the album of current track
	set songDuration to the duration of current track
	set artwoks1 to artworks of current track
	set artworkData to "
...

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This will now show the song title and artist in the two rows of the LCD screen where they are normally shown.

For a complete guide to making this modification, check out my original post below.

[Mac] LCD Media Display: Show Webcast Song Title & Artist

Message Edited by Jmp478 on 01-23-2009 12:46 AM