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by **lar282** on Sat May 01, 2004 10:48 am

Bought a X10 (like the remote wonder) remote with USB reciever. Tried wmandra:s plugin for ati remote, but found that I didn't like that I can't block the poweroff button. My wife presses poweroff and thinks that the computer will shutdown, but xlobby shitdown. Even worse in theatertek where the overlay shutsdown and it hangs...So...

I removed ATI and went for girder and a great gml file that works super. Now to the question.
Is it possible somehow to add numbers infront of button on the musicpage and have the remote control the buttons with the numbers instead of moving from button to button. For example.
1:Play------Press number 1 on the remote and the music starts to play
2:Shuffle---Press number 2 on the remote makes it shuffle
and so on. This would make it possible to have more buttons on the music page and still be able to control it with a remote. The problem is that if I teach girder with sendmessage and make a sendmessege on the button play in Xlobby, evertime I press 1 it will start to play music. What I want is for that button to be valid ONLY on that page becuase I want to use number 1 on a different page also! Make sence??????

//Lasse

by **Twit** on Sat May 01, 2004 11:33 am

Lasse,

I also have the same problem, up untill the newer xlobbys with the event manager you used to tell girder to push a button (not fire an event) and the xlobby screen names changed. ie xlobby-menu of xlobby-music, now they are all just called xlobby, so you could target girder to specific screens, which you can't now.

What I do (takes some time) is to have a girder 'top level command' structure for every screen and depending on what screen in xlobby i go into i trigger enable/disable command in girder.

So most of my remote buttons are repeated in girder but most are disabled untill told otherwise. You just have to sit down and think of all of the ways to get to the 'music' screen and add the sendmessage command to them to enable girder.

I have asked steven to go back to the other 'window naming type' but so far no luck.

Later
Simon.

by **lar282** on Sat May 01, 2004 1:34 pm

Thanks for the tip. Sounds like you're better at girder than me so I was wondering if I could "steal" your GML fil just to see the structure.
Please

//Lasse
mailto:lasse10@telia.com

by **oneman** on Sat May 01, 2004 1:58 pm

me too... oneman AT charter.net

Thanks...

by **lar282** on Sun May 02, 2004 7:25 am

by **Twit** on Sun May 02, 2004 2:52 pm

Sorry guys - I am on leave at the moment - will be home wednesday. Mail you then

Later
Simon.

by **lar282** on Thu May 06, 2004 6:20 am

Twit wrote:Sorry guys - I am on leave at the moment - will be home wednesday. Mail you then

Later
Simon.

Simon we need u.........

//Lasse

by **AirPost** on Thu May 06, 2004 7:38 am

This sounds interesting. I have the same, well, almost the same kind of structure. Instead of the screens, I have girder setup to use the same buttons for different programs. It's been awhile since I messed with Girder but if you replace the program's "Is Foreground" target to Xlobby screen's "Handle" it might work then again, maybe not. Not sure if each screen has a unique handle. I just don't have time right now to mess with Girder since I have it almost set the way I want so if you gents would like to try it out using my gml file, let me know. :lol:

by **lar282** on Fri May 07, 2004 11:45 am

Simon(Twit) we need u......... You haven't forgot about us, have u?.....

//Lasse
mailto:lasse10@telia.com

by **lar282** on Mon May 10, 2004 6:07 am

mailto:lasse10@telia.com

by **Twit** on Mon May 10, 2004 12:26 pm

Sorry guys - I hell if a busy - will try tonight when i get home.

Airpost,

Xlobby does not change its handle (or window name) when the screen changes so girder does not know when.

Later
Simon

by **Twit** on Mon May 10, 2004 6:07 pm

OK! OK! OK!

You will not believe the luck i have been having lately. I was supposed to be on leave which turned out to be more work and for an extra week.

I come home tonight to find my puter will not boot so have thrown together this small gml file , on my laptop, to show how to do it.

1 - Install a fresh copy of xlobby (pre14 as it is complete)
2 - Copy the events xml's into xlobby\skins\default\eventgroups - overwrite the existing ones.
3 - Fire up girder and load my gml file. Learn ONE remote code(button) for all three of the commands in the xlobby folder. ie nextpage/slideshow & filters. Save the gml.
4 - Fire up your fresh xlobby and go into the music screen - click the button you learnt in step 3 - notice the albums go to next page!
5 - Go into the pictures screen and press the button - notice the slideshow!
6 - Go into movies and press the same button - filter overlay.

Look at the eventstring of the triggers in girder. Like music is called 'music on' then load xlobbys event manager and goto the goto:music event and see the girder trigger.

I hope you get the picture - post if you get stuck.

http://www.bavarianbikes.co.za/xlobby/goto.xml
http://www.bavarianbikes.co.za/xlobby/movies.xml
http://www.bavarianbikes.co.za/xlobby/music.xml
http://www.bavarianbikes.co.za/xlobby/pictures.xml
http://www.bavarianbikes.co.za/xlobby/test3.GML

Later
Simon.

by **lar282** on Mon May 10, 2004 9:34 pm

Thank u
Sorry to hear about your computer. Let us know if you need help.

Thanks again.

EDIT: the file does not exist:DS
http://www.bavarianbikes.co.za/xlobby/test.gml

//Lasse

by **Twit** on Tue May 11, 2004 3:37 am

OOPS! Did not realize it was cap sensitive - Try the link now. (GML in upper caps)

by **vicom** on Wed May 12, 2004 10:20 am

Twit:

Do u know where one can get hold of X-10 stuff in ZA ?

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