Widgets
Description
Widgets was introduced in PS3 firmware 2.00 and was working officially up to 2.80 as a way to display dynamic web information in XMB, are very dependant and managed by the Web Browser. The only official widget was named Information Board
In firmware 3.00 was disabled, and the files related with "Information Board" was removed in 3.40 because his initial purpose of displaying dynamic web information was superceeded by the "What's New" display mode (in firmware 3.00)
- Notes
- XMB loads all available widgets by using the function host://localhost/q? and the subclass x-host/widget (see: XMBML Functions), and are displayed using the class x-xmb/xmliboard (but the class x-xmb/xmliboard is not used anymore and has been replaced by x-xmb/xmlnpsignup). See: XMBML Coding
- PSP introduced widgets in firmware 5.50 (the same information board inherited from PS3). This firmware update for PSP also had some improvements related with the web browser (Internet search for games directly from the XMB, Trend Micro Web Security, and Trend Micro Kids' Safety)
Information Board
It was posible to enable or disable the "information board" widget by pressing triangle over his icon in network column. The way that are build allows to add more widgets in a modular way (but was removed instead of adding more). For an overview of how the "information board" widget was working originally see the official user manual
It seems the removal of the widgets support was made only partially (are still supported by loading the widget from external devices), so it should be possible to (re)create it, or to create custom widgets
Information Board QA Server: Off/On
Debug XMB loads the widget by using the view ID "root_info" and Query "host_provider_flash". Same than retail XMB, but debug needs this setting enabled. See: QA Flagging
dev_flash/vsh/module
xai_plugin.sprx
This file was removed, see: xai_plugin
To use xai_plugin.sprx in a different firmware version is needed to resign the file with the keys of the firmware where is going to be used. In this example is used scetool for the resigning with the "template" option and the file explore_plugin_full.sprx taken from the modern firmware
Decrypt
scetool.exe -d xai_plugin.sprx xai_plugin_dec.prx
Encrypt
scetool.exe --template explore_plugin_full.sprx --sce-type=SELF --skip-sections=FALSE --compress-data=TRUE --encrypt xai_plugin_dec.prx xai_plugin_new.sprx
dev_flash/vsh/resource
explore_category_network.rco
There is a widget entry missing in the rcoxml ? (most probably a MList to create a side-menu). And the squared icon in this screenshot ?. And the text strings translated to all system Languages "Use" and "Do Not Display" in this screenshot ?
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dev_flash/vsh/resource/explore/xmb
category_network.xml
Widget icons loaded by XMBML in Network column, widgets related segments was removed in firmware 3.00 by removing his <View id> and his attr
Code Sample
category_widget.xml
Widgets XMBML configuration file, this file exists in all firmwares with some segments disabled
Code Sample
dev_flash/vsh/resource/explore/icon
widget.png
This file exists in firmwares since 2.00 up to 4.83. size 17205 bytes. MD5:5ed81a2c29a6514a4c3b9b72efc5b9f2
dev_flash/vsh/resource/xai
extensions.xml
Contains: extensions.entry.module=Widget and extensions.entry.plugin=xai_plugin
Code Sample
widgets.xml
Contains: xai.widget.url=/dev_hdd0/widget/npdrm/informationboard
Code Sample
dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/data/
This files was removed in firmware 2.20 at the same time it was implemented the "silk_nas" Web Browser
CEHtmlBrowserApp.bin
Up to firmware 2.17 (and removed in 2.20) See: SILKPADD
CEHtmlBrowserAppXaiWidget.bin
Up to firmware 2.17 (and removed in 2.20) See: SILKPADD
dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/etc
fontinfo-Xai.xml
Code Sample
dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk_nas/etc
fontinfo-Xai.xml
In firmwares since 2.20 up to 4.83. Size 3063 bytes. MD5:8C1102561C72A21B7866CC4D17D6EFBF
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dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/
Icon.png
widget XMB icon
Version | Size | MD5 | Notes |
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2.00~3.30 | 16.506 | 4A7865D6E3C95C2098214C52A20C73CF | added in 2.00, removed in 3.40 |
config.xml
Version | Size | MD5 | Notes |
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2.00~2.17 | 447 | F47704B937E193BF093D14A1EB1BE2F2 | added in 2.00 |
2.20~2.36 | 447 | D07FF7832F6860F4836FC48D84BC3C11 | |
2.40~3.30 | 446 | 7B9689660000FD291E80B1B37233D0AF | removed in 3.40 |
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Example: config.xml 2.20~2.36 (the example below only shows the changes)
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Example: config.xml 2.40~3.30 (the example below only shows the changes)
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rss.swf
Main widget window, in shockwave flash format. For a preview of how it works you can drag-and-drop the file to your PC webbrowser, or use a shockwave flash editor/player. There are 4 versions of this file:
Version | Size | MD5 | Notes |
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2.00 | 26.696 | 02C716D84790374294AB11AD5CEBF3DD | added in 2.00 |
2.01 | 26.707 | 50963C30BBAA23449B1CB120699EDD20 | |
2.10~2.17 | 26.741 | B4A8EB9960DAB44F654B370D8B97083B | |
2.20~3.30 | 28.749 | F36212A8B66226655ACD64CF9E462186 | removed in 3.40 |
setting.xml
RSS URL list by Target_ID, for non QA
Version | Size | MD5 | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2.00~3.30 | 1.344 | ACAEE5D6C9B174FE558B721A03022F94 | added in 2.00, removed in 3.40 |
Code Sample
setting_qa.xml
RSS URL list by Target_ID, for QA
File | Version | Size | MD5 | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
2.00~3.30 | 1.380 | B49C94FDE6385E5CA03D9CFDAFA53F47 | added in 2.00, removed in 3.40 |
Code Sample
dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/<language>.lproj/
15 folders named <language>.lproj for different languages (e.g: da.lproj, Dutch.lproj, etc...), and every folder contains a text file named InfoPlist.strings
InfoPlist.strings
The file contains the name of the widget in a single text line, is the same file for all languages except: japanese, korean, and russian
Folder | File | Version | Size | MD5 | Example |
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da.lproj\ | InfoPlist.strings | 2.00~3.30 | 42 | 5BEB6E9B277784341D1C0722432CF248 | Code Sample |
Dutch.lproj\ | InfoPlist.strings | 2.00~3.30 | |||
fi.lproj\ | InfoPlist.strings | 2.00~3.30 | |||
French.lproj\ | InfoPlist.strings | 2.00~3.30 | |||
German.lproj\ | InfoPlist.strings | 2.00~3.30 | |||
Italian.lproj\ | InfoPlist.strings | 2.00~3.30 | |||
nb.lproj\ | InfoPlist.strings | 2.00~3.30 | |||
pt.lproj\ | InfoPlist.strings | 2.00~3.30 | |||
Spanish.lproj\ | InfoPlist.strings | 2.00~3.30 | |||
sv.lproj\ | InfoPlist.strings | 2.00~3.30 | |||
zh_CN.lproj\ | InfoPlist.strings | 2.00~3.30 | |||
zh_TW.lproj\ | InfoPlist.strings | 2.00~3.30 | |||
Japanese.lproj\ | InfoPlist.strings | 2.00~3.30 | 61 | 353290330A59BCD35A0CDD579A5F883E | Code Sample |
ko.lproj\ | InfoPlist.strings | 2.00~3.30 | 47 | 2752CF3440FB92C82EE71C780605C664 | Code Sample |
ru.lproj\ | InfoPlist.strings | 2.00~3.30 | 56 | 36BCD9EC73A01A85C7745735D47FAB78 | Code Sample |
- Notes
- Mac widgets also use .lproj localization
dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/strings/
One folder named strings containing 16 files for languages named: infob_<language>.xml (e.g: infob_german.xml, infob_french.xml, etc...)
infob_<language>.xml
dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_chinese_simplified.xml dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_chinese_traditional.xml dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_danish.xml dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_dutch.xml dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_english.xml dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_finnish.xml dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_french.xml dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_german.xml dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_italian.xml dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_japanese.xml dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_korean.xml dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_norwegian.xml dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_portuguese.xml dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_russian.xml dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_spanish.xml dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard/string/infob_swedish.xml
Example from infob_english.xml
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dev_hdd0/widget/npdrm/informationboard
The existence of this path is a deduction because there is other file where it can be seen this is an alternative path to load widgets. The file contents on this path is unknown but most probably are the same files used in the informationboard directory under dev_flash, so the only difference is the device (dev_hdd0 instead of dev_flash), and the npdrm signature ?
- Notes
- Loaded by Query "host_provider_flash" using src="host://localhost/q?path=/dev_hdd0/widget/npdrm&suffix=informationboard&subclass=x-host/widget"
- The src XMBML code in the line above means:
- host://localhost/q? (this is a XMBML Function)
- path=/dev_hdd0/widget/npdrm (the path where are located the files that are going to be loaded)
- suffix=informationboard (in this case seems to be part of the path, also the name of the widget)
- subclass=x-host/widget (indicates what to do with the files by his type)
- The src XMBML code in the line above means:
- Loaded by Query "host_provider_flash" using src="host://localhost/q?path=/dev_hdd0/widget/npdrm&suffix=informationboard&subclass=x-host/widget"
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