1. What is this?
At a glance
The Buzz plugin is able to show all machines used for the current playing song. Additionally it can show all other known Buzz machines.
Of course the plugin cannot know all machines. Because of this it's able to download a special file containing a list of machines.
The list contains the name of the machine-DLL, the Name of the Author, the download location and the author's homepage.
So if you need a machine you don't have, simple select it in the list and click on "Download file".
Using the feature
Click on the plugin with the right mouse button. A menu will appear. Now select "show used machines".
Now you can see a list of all used machines. If you select "show all known machines" the dialog will show all currently known
machines.
If your list is empty or you feel that the list is not up to date, you can press "Get List from Internet". This will download a
possibly complete list of all machines.
If you want to download a machine file select it and click on "Download file". The file will be downloaded.
This feature uses
your browser for downloading the file. That means, you browser will ask you for saving the file, as usual.
2. What the webmaster has to do
Normally you have nothing to deal with this. The plugin will look for the machine info file at "http://www.chilleddreams.de/machinelist.buzzinfo"
by default.
But, if you want to provide an own list you can override this location:
<embed src = "mysong.bmx" type = "audio/x-bmx" width = 200 height = 80
MACHINEINFO = "http://www.domain.com/machinelist.buzzinfo">
Please notice: The file extension must be ".buzzinfo"!
3. Format of the info file
The file is a normal text file. Every line is for one machine entry. Here is an example of a line:
vMidiOut,http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~vmuehle,http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~vmuehle/vmidio1f.zip,vII
Every value is separated by comma. Here are the meanings:
- Name of the DLL (without the .dll extension)
- Homepage of the Author
- complete download path (including filename)
- Name of the auhor
If a value is not known or not existent (e.g. homepage) replace it by '<?>'. This value is detected by the plugin. So the
plugin will ignore it if the user presses on "Surf to website".