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[newchannel]

Can someone lend some advice on how to add an intro screen that plays before a video playlist to tell viewers about the button functions?

[RokuRobB]

Depending on the kind of user experience you want, there are a number of way to do this. The easiest would be to use the roParagraph screen type to just display a couple lines / paragraphs of text with the help information you want. A more custom way to do it would be to use roScreen and the 2DAPI to render text and images:

http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/roScreen
http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/ifDraw2D.

You can also do similar things wtih roImageCanvas:

http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/roImageCanvas

Some additional details on using roScreen and roImageCanvas can be found here:

http://blog.roku.com/developer/2012/08/ ... pt-2d-api/
http://blog.roku.com/developer/2012/09/ ... ge-canvas/

[newchannel]

Thank you for the links. I appreciate it and will review.