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[SECHIN_SUNNY]

Hi , can you please tell me on how to make changes in closedCaptions by changing the background , text color etc .Have tried using m.videoPlayer.captionStyle={"Text color":"Yellow"}
but there is no change .

Please suggest what should i do .
Thanks in advance

[RokuBen]

captionStyle doesn't exist on roVideoPlayer.  It's part of the Video node which is a Scene Graph type in SDK 2.  roVideoPlayer is part of SDK 1 which is deprecated and no longer supported for new channels or channel updates (see https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/roVideoPlayer)

[SECHIN_SUNNY]

Hi ben , but i am talking about video node only , within scenegraph . I used this field stating 
m.videoplayer=m.top.findNode("video")
m.videoplayer.closedCaptions={"Text Background":"Yellow"} 
I changed different property and value which is given inSDK but no effect on the subtitle . Please let me know the correct parameters to be used to make the changes for the subtitle styling.

Thanks in advance

[RokuBen]

The property is called captionStyle.

m.videoplayer = m.top.findNode("video")
m.videoplayer.captionStyle["Background color"] = "Yellow"

should tell the caption engine to use a yellow background. Note: this won't override a user's choice in the closed caption UI -- if they've picked green on red, the caption engine will use that settings. This just overrides the defaults. You need to use the exact property names listed on https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Video.

[SECHIN_SUNNY]

"RokuBen" wrote:
The property is called captionStyle.

m.videoplayer = m.top.findNode("video")
m.videoplayer.captionStyle["Background color"] = "Yellow"

should tell the caption engine to use a yellow background.  Note: this won't override a user's choice in the closed caption UI -- if they've picked green on red, the caption engine will use that settings.  This just overrides the defaults.  You need to use the exact property names listed on https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Video.

Thank you so much ben , you saved me . Thanks a lot

[SECHIN_SUNNY]

Hi Ben i tried using it , but i got error instead , please can you advise me what wrong i  m doing and how to makes things work .
864:  SUb availableSubtitleTracks()
865:  'print"m.videoPlayer==>tracks==>"m.videoPlayer.availableSubtitleTracks
866:  if m.videoPlayer.availableSubtitleTracks.count()<>0
867:    m.subtitle_icon_group.visible=true
868:  else
869:    m.subtitle_icon_group.visible=false
870:  end if
871:
872:*   m.videoplayer.captionStyle["Background color"] = "Yellow"
873:  ENd SUb
Invalid value for left-side of expression. (runtime error &he4) in pkg:/componen
ts/baseVideoPLayer/baseVideoPLayer.brs(872)

Thanks in advance

[RokuBen]

The captionStyle attribute starts as invalid, so you need to assign an associative array to it first to be able to use the syntax I posted.

I also did some debugging on our side, and the attribute names we've posted are wrong.  The correct set is

• Text/Font


• Text/Effect


• Text/Size


• Text/Color


• Text/Opacity


• Background/Color


• Background/Opacity


• Window/Color


• Window/Opacity

I'll ask that the developer docs get updated.  That would make your code now read

m.videoplayer = m.top.findNode("video")
m.videoplayer.captionStyle = { "Background/Color": "Yellow" }

Thanks for persisting with your questions.

[SECHIN_SUNNY]

Thanks Ben , for the quick answer . It really worked fine .

I have 2 questions , please do help me , atleast provide me an hint . Let me ask you the first question :

In Roku Tv after the new update of 8.0 we have the tv guide , in the UI all the rows moves together with respect to the focus , how is it exactly possible in rowlist , or is it some other component belonging to arrayGrid . 

Thanks in advance
Sechin

[SECHIN_SUNNY]

"SECHIN SUNNY" wrote:
Thanks Ben , for the quick answer . It really worked fine .

I have 2 questions , please do help me , atleast provide me an hint . Let me ask you the first question :

In Roku Tv after the new update of 8.0 we have the tv guide , in the UI all the rows moves together with respect to the focus , how is it exactly possible in rowlist , or is it some other component belonging to arrayGrid . 

Thanks in advance
Sechin

Hi ben please reply to this query , give me a hint on how u guys are managing in roku tv the tv guide , how all the rows move together with respect to the row in focus when u change each time section .

[RokuBen]

That is done with an internal component that's not published in the Brightscript SDK.