Well, I've been messing a bit with the BBInterface 0.9.89 source code, and in spite of my lack of programming experience, I have managed to cobble an iTunes control together.

It was done using the iTunes COM for Windows SDK (this might bring some copyright restrictions with it, I'm not sure), and copying & pasting the code from the Winamp control


features:

• track position & volume control via sliders
• play/pause (switchbutton)
• track time elapsed / remaining / total
• track name, artist and album
• various agents (prev, next, play, pause, stop, etc.)
• options to disable iTunes and/or Winamp controls (although they require a reconfigure to work - I guess this could be improved....)

Since I often used hotkeys with my tcl-bb control, I thought it would be nice to have bro@ms to toggle play/pause and the like:

• bro@ms to trigger (switch-) buttons (e.g. @BBInterface Control Trigger PlayPause LeftMouseUp)
• bro@ms to increase/decrease slider values (e.g. @BBInterface Control Increment iTunesVolume -2)

The whole stuff was compiled using VisualStudio 2005. You will find the sources and project files in the attachment; the compiled .dll (120kb) can be found in the Release subdirectory.
Since I have upcoming exams to deal with, I hardly have time to do a thourough testing or fix bugs....
Also, I'm sorry I cannot guarantee that you will be able to compile or run the plugin on your machine (although the control should work for a properly installed iTunes, version 4.7 or above).

Please feel free to improve, and.... enjoy!

Wow. In 1 swoop you have managed to obsolete TunA and Nightbreed's tcl-bb controller (except I think his does artwork as well..) I say excellent effort! Now if only somebody could may BBInterface load agents dynamicly then we wouldn't have to worry about 100 differant version surfacing all with differant agents [That's a hint to anyone who wants to hack with BBI.] It'd be the worlds greatest plugin loading plugin!

dynamic loading would be interesting to see.

wow, man. very very nice. i am so glad you did this.
i have an ipod so i use itunes and pretty much every blackbox plugin is for winamp or foobar. (i used foobar before i got an ipod).

nice work

is there a way to display album art for current track, or a plugin to do so?
it would make it really nice.

i've added this to my BBInterface "Dashboard" frame:
http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs15/i/2007/0 ... LoNeXx.jpg

created/edited some buttons and the itunes title bar.

Wow, excellent job...

Hello.
I'm japanese , and I can't speak English well. sorry:(

I'm using this modification of bbinterface.
http://www.kazmix.com/upload/bbinterfaceMod_iTunes.zip

this mod also can control iTunes, and some other features are added.
(e.g. Network Monitor, Font face Selector , etc...)


And iTunes control from bro@ms, using this.
http://www.kazmix.com/upload/bbBroamTunes.zip


Thanks.

Wow, the Japanese bb4win community is kickin hard it seems! Are there any other plugins floating around out there that us English users don't know about? That BBinterface mod has things that people have been asking for in plugins for a while now!

Wow indeed... And why is the Japanese bb4win community a separate entity? Guys, we are all together in this... Come over, beer is on the house...

Language barrier maybe?

Nope. Instructions in the zip file are in English... And, btw, both itunes and system meter work like a dream...

Yay, thanks for the link to the iTunes COM for Windows SDK! I guess support for a 9th player in multiamp just got closer... WinAmp, CoolPlayer, K-Jöfol, Foobar2000, QCD, musikCube, Apollo, Windows Media Player... and now possibly iTunes!

BR//Karl -> qwilk

Btw move, are you and kazmix the same person?
(I'd like to get his approval before uploading his plugins to the xoblite.net plugins page)

BR//Karl -> qwilk

Hmmmm. there seems to be a problem with this modified bbinterface.dll. After some time, graphics go weird all around the screen and Blackbox freezes... Maybe BBClean is the culprit...