possible with an application inside the Xlobby windows?

by **lar282** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 8:00 am

Is it possible to have an application launch inside the xlobby windows. The application is not to be fullscreen and I still want focus on Xlobby?

Is there a way to do this through the xml files?

//Lasse

by **Arthur** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 10:57 am

Don't know. May be hard. However. I just launch an other application, not full screen, in front of xlobby on a separate xlobby screen. The xlobby screen stays in the background and if I touch it (only to ga back to main menu or close aplication) xlobby reacts. You might add a command to the buttons in xlobby to set focus to your apllication after being touched.
Arthur

by **lar282** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 11:13 am

Do u "touch" it by remote or Keyboard or Mouse. My problem is that I just wanna use a remote and if xlobby is not in focus I cannot press the button?

Can u do a screen dump of your screen because maybe I understand u wrong here.

//Lasse
mailto:lasse10@telia.com

by **chadwolcott** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:38 pm

The only way I have been able to successfully do this is if the application has an always on top option. Zoomplayer for example can do this. I don't know if it is even possible to create a "hole" in the xlobby overlay which is what you are looking for I think. Is there a specific application you are looking to do this with? It might be able to be done with a plugin

by **lar282** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:59 pm

Yapp a whole inside xlobby is a good description.

I wanna use dscaler.exe like this. I guess what I want is a plugin, you're right. How hard is it to do this? I don't want any option at all, just starting the exe with a predefined size(must be changeble). All the options in dscaler can be made with a ini file so it should be so hard.

OR even better. A general EXE plugin with 3 inputs.
1/: name and path to exe file
2/ Size
3/ Location on screen

Can one of use guys do it for me? Must be more than me that should benefit from this?

//Lasse

by **chadwolcott** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:32 pm

I believe Dscaler has an always on top option. Not sure if the setting is "remembered", I don't use it so I can't check. As for writing plugins, steven hasn't released the information needed to do this yet, AFAIK. I suggest you check in the dscaler forum to see if there are any commandline switch options or other ways you can launch dscaler and get the settings you want.

by **lar282** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:40 pm

I got it the way I want, BUT then I can't reach the buttons in xlobby. Right now it looks like this

http://hem.passagen.se/lar282/xlobby
(view the TV.JPG )

Xlobby is underneath the dscaler. It works pretty good but the way I described it above is way better.

I'll just wait for the release of info from steven. I guess I was hoping that creating a generall plugin for a exe file was easy and that somebody had the skills to do it.

Thanks again

//Lasse

by **chadwolcott** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:55 pm

So what you are saying is that xlobby doesn't have focus? What happens if you click on xlobby on the taskbar? Does it cover dscaler or does dscaler stay on top?

by **lar282** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 2:07 pm

click taskbar=Xlobby covers Dscaler
click Dscaler= Dscaler covers Xlobby(that's why I don't have full screen)

by **chadwolcott** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 2:08 pm

You need to turn on Always on Top in Dscaler, it's in one of the menus

by **lar282** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 6:32 pm

thanks for the tip chad in the chat room. It works. I hide the dscaler windows but the hell do I turn the focus back on xlobby. Is there a special function for that or is that what is callled "show overlay"?

//Lasse

by **oneman** on Thu Apr 22, 2004 11:21 pm

Try using girder to give focus back to xlobby... I think girder has a plugin to do this...

by **chadwolcott** on Fri Apr 23, 2004 12:57 pm

The girder function for getting focus does not work. Due to a windows limitation, only the active application can give focus to another window. There is however a program that I use to do it, I found it on the girder forum.

http://home.comcast.net/~chad.wolcott/sendfocus.exe

You can use it via girder or xlobby. It takes the class name or window name as an arguement and it works very well. I use it to pass focus between xlobby and sagetv.