XLobby & SageTV - which Sage skin should I emulate?

[Hiller]

It would be nice if you can implement the SageTV navigation:

- left goes to previous menu level (if there is nothing on the left of the item)
- right goes to submenu (if there's nothing on the right of the item)

I really like the navigation in sagetv with 4 buttons only.

This shouldn't be a problem. Just setup XLobby with the SendMessages for Left, Right, Up, and Down. Then attach an IR code to them in the EventManager and you should be good to go.

[Naylia]

hiller, i understand that part. but i think he is talking about emulating the way navigation in sagetv works in to xlobby also which is sort of an if/then process.

while(in menu){
if (object left && push left == true)
goto object
else
go prior menu
if (object right && push right == true)
goto object
else
go sub menu
}

i can easily set up control of sage screens from a touch panel or ppc using the send messages but can i make xlobby screens behave the same way? i'm not sure i can.

[milanp]

I have already done that with the default skin.
It is simple like this:
Left navigation to previous menu -> You change the navigation of the buttons so that if you press left it goes to a button which is not a navigation item, and it is hidden (position 0,0) width 1 height 1
You create an event which is a simple event (goto somewhere).
You assign the event to the hidden button as an on enter event .
What actually is happeing is that when you press left it goes to a button which cannot be reached normally, and an event is trigered to go somewhere.

[Naylia]

very smooth milan, i'll give it a shot

[Naylia]

more shots for now...hopefully a downloadable version late in the week

[Naylia]

skin coming soon!!!....i currently have it jumping flawlessly to the My TV screen in SageMC (so no redundant main menu!!) and I can get Sage to sleep and Xlobby so up but for some reason I can't get focus back to XLobby so I'm working that.

[Naylia]

Skin posted!!

http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3147


Steven, you can probably close this thread....