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squirreltown
Roku Guru
12 years ago

2dAPI / inputcontrols

Channel is all 2d custom screens. Have a comment screen to type a comment and email. I am using the channel store "get partial info" to grab the users name and email (share/don't share). The thing is that the remote commands used on the channel store canvas - in this case "up" to select share and "OK" are being executed again once the channel store screen closes and the comment screen opens, changing the focus from where i want it. The channel store and comment screen roUniversalControlEvent are on different ports so i don't see how this is happening. Anything to do about this?

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3 Replies

  • EnTerr's avatar
    EnTerr
    Roku Guru
    12 years ago
    How strange. I imagine you can run a dry loop to flush all events before the main loop of the comments screen? Something like "while port.getMessage() <> invalid: end while". Or even keep flushing for certain amount of time (typed but not tested):
        clock = createObject("roTimespan")
        clock.mark()
        while clock.totalMilliseconds() < 100
            port.getMessage()
        end while


    It sounds like a bug though.
  • squirreltown's avatar
    squirreltown
    Roku Guru
    12 years ago
    Thanks EnTerr, I'll try something like that and see how it goes. I thought crossing wires on separate ports would be impossible.
  • squirreltown's avatar
    squirreltown
    Roku Guru
    12 years ago
    Enterr thanks for the tip, I got rid of the two offending keypresses here, and handled when the store isnt used. Still strange, would like to hear from a RokuEngineer whats up with this
                    clock = createObject("roTimespan")
        				clock.mark()
    						while clock.totalMilliseconds() < 500
    						msg = msgport.getmessage()
           					if type(msg) = "roUniversalControlEvent"
           				   while clock.totalMilliseconds() < 500
    							 msg = msgport.getmessage()
           				   if type(msg) = "roUniversalControlEvent"
         						exit while
         						end if
         						end while
         					exit while
         					end if
         					end while