First, as you might have guessed - I'm back after a two year haitus from BBInterface.

Second, I come back bringing a new version, with lots of new features. Ptk-zer0 added some new stuff since then as well, we've been working together on this release.

You can find the latest version of BBInterface here:
http://www.psyci.com/bbi/

New features added to the 0.9.85 release since the 0.9.71 release:

Winamp Agent
- Attach track position to any slider control [psyci]
- Attach current track title to any text field (button caption, label caption, etc) [psyci]

System Monitor Agent (NEW!)
- Attach CPU usage to to any slider control [psyci]
- Attach physical memory, virtual memory, and page file usage any slider control [psyci]
- Attach battery usage any slider control [psyci]

BBInterface Control Agent (NEW!)
- Make controls visible or invisible with any event (like a button click) [psyci]
(Yes, this could be done before with scripting, but is now easily accessible in the menu) [psyci]

Window Properties
- Custom-defined styles for buttons & labels [pkt-zer0]
- Make window invisible after control or blackbox loses focus [psyci]



Discuss it here in the forums. Lots more planned for the future, so feel free to make suggestions as well.

Enjoy!

Great work psyci, and welcome back!

Welcome back Psyci. Great work you two.

Any chance of getting custom fonts?

Also, could image stretching and tiling be done?

One more thing...lol... Could something like BBLoSlitta be combined with bbinterface? This to give any frame the ability to house external windows controls? Would be cool to see how a tk widget merged with a bbi project would be like. This could be a way to merge text boxes and other controls that arent available in bbi.

Here's a quick screenshot of what the bbwinamp project is looking like with the included bbi updates.

Umm, psyci... I'd have a minor request, too. Please use 'pkt-zer0' instead of 'ptk-zer0'. I know, it's my own fault for having such a nick - still, it's easy to remember if you think 'pocket'. "Pocket zero, symbol of poverty" was the reaction I got to it on another forum.

Anyhow.

I don't know about custom fonts - it'd be simple to be able to change the font option in the custom styles, but I don't think BBI is using the styles themselves to determine the fonts. Rather, it grabs one when it starts, and uses that for everything. We'll see, I guess.

Are there plans to add custom color options to the states of the switch buttons? i.e., pressed and unpressed would have their own individual settings.

My bad. Sorry! Fixed it in this post and the web page. (I get called "psychi" all the time, so I can sympathize)

Great work on the meter sliders and the winamp label... They work perfect and I hadn't really noticed any performance problems.

Here's what I've built with the new version: a nice custom start menu, built entirely with BBInterface components, without doing any scripting or hand typing of broam commands.

Continuation of last post...

Is it possible to add Time elapsed | Time remaining to BBinterface? Titlebar and seekbar work fine. For me to completely ditch bbmuse would be that last feature. Love the new features and posibilities available with the update of this plugin
Thanks

Time code along with numeric values for the sys meters

@psyci or pkt-zer0, are there any new variables added in this release?

psyci, it would be cool if numeric values could be displayed inside the sliders or on the slider scroller itself.

Here's an example using one of your screenshots.

Here's a simple panel I threw together

When the panel is brought out of invisible mode with the jade button, a mouse click on the desktop makes it invisible again.. just for those times where invisible mode seems to stick.

But the focus and non-focus options are great, thanks for those. They come in handy a great deal of times.

Could there be an option for desktop clicks to make objects invisible? As a global that is... All objects that are suppose to be invisible will become that upon desktop clicking.

That looks really nice, Nightbreed.

Suggestions I've gathered thus far:
- desktop click agent
- numeric values inside sliders
- winamp time elapsed / time remaining
- custom fonts
- image stretching / tiling

No guarentees, of course, but I'll keep them on my list.