How to add search button to my roku channel
im trying to add search button to my channel which can search all the content in my show how to do that? How to create a splash screen like youtube has ?
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Hello! Have you written the search functionality? A search function? If so, it is as simple as adding a button in your XML file and the BrightScript file, observing the field and adding the function. Like so, in XML:
<children>
<Button
id="searchButton"
text = "Search Button"
showFocusFootprint = "true"
/>
</children>Now BrightScript brs file:
sub init()
m.searchButton = m.top.findNode("searchButton")
m.searchButton.observeField("buttonSelected","searchFunction")
end sub
function searchFunction()
//your code and logic
end functionFurther reading, Roku docs for button: https://developer.roku.com/en-gb/docs/references/scenegraph/widget-nodes/button.md
I hope this helps!
thank you so much i was a little lost.
Glad to know it helped!
so i added a function that opens a keyboard when i click the search button but if i keep clicking down button the focus goes out of the keyboard and onto the grid screen. If i keep clicking left it loops through to the other side. How to do that for up and down also?
Your question would be more clear if you also posted a screenshot of your UI. Then rephrase your question, thanks.
