Automenu

[jnickel]

Hi again,

I am not having any luck trying to get a Menu up on the screen so that I push a button and it activates lights or Winamp etc.

I have got an action that activates the lights, so I think I understand that part, but the Automenu thing is evading me. I have looked at the menu example provided, but when you "Test" run it, it does nothing - no window pops up - nothing.

The beizer example actually does popup a window.

Is there any doc's or help on this area?

Jim

[mhund]

some tips I got here

http://www.promixis.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14272

[Ron]

Hi Jim,

In demo OSD there are 2 nodes called Menu Example. The first one is the one you should try. The second one shows how to move the hightlight in the menu from lua. If that first on still doesn't work let me know, also check if there was an error in the interactive lua console.

[jnickel]

Mike,

I tried the first example. At the bottom of the screen it says, "Lua Success (Nothing Triggered)"

When I look at the Interactive Lua Console, there are no messages (I cleared before trying it). The logger also says Lua Success (nothing Triggered)

Jim

[Ron]

Are you on a dual display configuration? Maybe it is popping up on a different monitor. Which Girder version are you running?

[jnickel]

mhund,

The only concern I have with the Internet Explorer (HTA method) is that it won't be two way communication - it won't display realtime data about things like MP3's that are playing or allow scrolling through the song. Or allow you to push a button down (say volume), and hold it down to repeat the action.

I am going to be using this on a 12" utma touchscreen from redradio and I don't want the user to be able to get out of the menu - so I want to custom design all the features they have access to.

Would using NetRemote be a better way of doing what I want?

Jim

[jnickel]

Ron (sorry...I was dealing with Mike yesterday),

I am not on a dual monitor display and I just downloaded Girder 4 yesterday.

Jim

[Ron]

No worries.

Absolutely, NR is the way to go for those things.

[jnickel]

Ron,

Ok, great...I will give it a try.

However, I would still like to see how the automenu stuff looks and get it working.

Could we please continue to debug what the problem is so I understand how it works?

Thanks,

Jim

[Ron]

Sure I think this would be the fastest if I could do a VNC session to your machine.

[jnickel]

Ron,

I am just leaving this message to let others who might have a similar problem know.

I was accessing my machine remotely using VNC and apparently something about the way the OSD is drawn caused it to not appear at all on my screen.

Thus it had nothing to do with Girder at all - just VNC not picking up the changes in drawing.

I am going to update my VNC to the latest version and see if the problem goes away.

Thank you for your excellent support!

Jim

[jnickel]

Ron,

After I updated my VNC to the latest UltraVNC, all is good.

The default weather stuff showed up too!

Jim

[Ron]

Great, glad it worked.