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=About Widgets= | |||
Widgets was introduced in firmware 2.00 as a way to display dynamic information from web servers in [[XMB]]. | |||
Widgets was introduced in | |||
The only official widget (included between firmwares 2.00 and 3.00) was called '''Information Board'''. | |||
In firmware 3.00 widgets was removed because his initial purpose of displaying dynamic content was superceeded by [[Life_with_PlayStation|Life with PlayStation]] (in firmware 2.40) and later by the "what's news" display mode (in firmware ?) | |||
==Information Board== | |||
It was posible to enable or disable | It was posible to enable or disable '''Information board''' by pressing triangle over his icon in network column. The way is built allowed them to add more widgets in case was needed (but never happened, they removed it instead of adding more). For an overview of how was working originally see: [http://ps3explained.com/beginner/using-the-information-board/ using the information board] | ||
The removing of this widget was made only partially! (are still supported by loading the widget from external devices), so it should be possible to (re)create it, if not create even more widgets to add to the XMB experience of the user. | |||
The widget management was well integrated in the firmware, so there is a list of files/functions/calls related with them: | |||
=== | * * dev_flash/vsh/resource/explore/xmb/category_network.xml (Widget icons loaded by XMB in Network column, widgets related segments was removed in firmware 3.00 by removing his <View id> and his attr) | ||
* dev_flash/vsh/resource/explore_category_network.rco (widget entry missing from the xml) | |||
* dev_flash/vsh/resource/explore/icon/widget.png (widget configuration icon, this file exists in all firmwares) | |||
* dev_flash/vsh/resource/explore/xmb/category_widget.xml (Widgets XMB configuration file, this file exists in all firmwares with some segments disabled) | |||
* dev_flash/vsh/resource/silk/xai/widgets/informationboard (information board main executable and settings files, removed in 3.00) | |||
* dev_flash/vsh/resource/xai/extensions.xml (contains: extensions.entry.module=Widget and extensions.entry.plugin=xai_plugin) | |||
* dev_flash/vsh/resource/xai/widgets.xml (contains: xai.widget.url=/dev_hdd0/widget/npdrm/informationboard) | |||
* dev_hdd0/widget/npdrm/informationboard (loaded by Query "host_provider_flash" using src="host://localhost/q?path=/dev_hdd0/widget/npdrm&suffix=informationboard&subclass=x-host/widget") | |||
Other settings related with widgets: | |||
* '''Information Board QA Server: Off/On''' (see: [[QA_Flagging]]). 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 | |||
* XMB loads all available widgets by using the function '''host://localhost/q?''' and the subclass '''x-host/widget''' (see: [[XMB_modding]]), 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: [[XMB XML Coding]] | |||
==Information Board File Contents== | |||
Firmware files inside path: '''dev_flash\vsh\resource\silk\xai\widgets\informationboard\''' | |||
===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 | |||
===Icon.png=== | |||
widget icon identifyer | |||
widget | |||
===config.xml=== | |||
config for rss.swf | |||
{{Boxcode|content=<syntaxhighlight lang="xml"> | |||
{{Boxcode| | |||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | ||
<widget> | <widget> | ||
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</syntaxhighlight>}} | </syntaxhighlight>}} | ||
===setting.xml=== | |||
RSS URL list by [[Target_ID]], for non QA flagged consoles | |||
{{Boxcode|content=<syntaxhighlight lang="xml"> | |||
RSS URL list by [[ | |||
{{Boxcode| | |||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | ||
<items> | <items> | ||
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</syntaxhighlight>}} | </syntaxhighlight>}} | ||
===setting_qa.xml=== | |||
RSS URL list by [[ | RSS URL list by [[Target_ID]], for QA flagged consoles | ||
{{Boxcode|content=<syntaxhighlight lang="xml"> | |||
{{Boxcode| | |||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | ||
<items> | <items> | ||
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</syntaxhighlight>}} | </syntaxhighlight>}} | ||
=== | ===strings folder=== | ||
1 folder named '''strings''' containing 16 files for languages named: informationboard_<language>.xml (e.g: informationboard_german.xml, informationboard_french.xml, etc...). Example from informationboard_english.xml | |||
{{Boxcode|content=<syntaxhighlight lang="xml"> | |||
{{Boxcode| | |||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | ||
<!DOCTYPE locale SYSTEM "locale.dtd"> | <!DOCTYPE locale SYSTEM "locale.dtd"> | ||
<locale lang="en" encoding="utf16"> | <locale lang="en" encoding="utf16"> | ||
<str id="msg_information_board_no_network">Notifications about PLAYSTATION® related topics are displayed when connected to a network. To set not to display, go to [Network] > [Information Board] and select [Do Not Display] from the options menu.</str><!--dtype="C"--> | <str id="msg_information_board_no_network">Notifications about PLAYSTATION® related topics are displayed when connected to a network. To set not to display, go to [Network] > [Information Board] and select [Do Not Display] from the options menu.</str><!--dtype="C"--> | ||
<str id="msg_information_board_no_network_list">Notifications about PLAYSTATION® related topics are displayed when connected to a network.
To set not to display, go to [Network] > [Information Board] and select [Do Not Display] from the options menu.</str><!--dtype="C"--> | <str id="msg_information_board_no_network_list">Notifications about PLAYSTATION® related topics are displayed when connected to a network.
To set not to display, go to [Network] > [Information Board] and select [Do Not Display] from the options menu.</str><!--dtype="C"--> | ||
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</syntaxhighlight>}} | </syntaxhighlight>}} | ||
===language.lproj folders=== | |||
15 folders for different languages named '''<language>.lproj''' (e.g: German.lproj, French.lproj, etc...)... every folder contains a file named '''InfoPlist.strings''' with the same data: | |||
Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F | |||
00000000 43 46 42 75 6E 64 6C 65 44 69 73 70 6C 61 79 4E CFBundleDisplayN | |||
00000010 61 6D 65 20 3D 20 22 49 6E 66 6F 72 6D 61 74 69 ame = "Informati | |||
00000020 6F 6E 20 42 6F 61 72 64 22 3B on Board"; | |||
mac widgets also use [https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/Dashboard_ProgTopics/Articles/Localization.html .lproj localization] so maybe can use custom language files. | |||
{{File Formats}}<noinclude>[[Category:Main]]</noinclude> | |||