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joetesta
Roku Guru

Rowlist focusBitmapUri offset on first focus

Hello,

Is this a problem with the 9 patch I'm using, is there an example app with a "good" 9 patch I can test against?

I'm trying to use a custom 9 patch for focusBitmapUri in a rowlist and seeing that every time the rowlist gets focus the first time, the selector is offset a bit to the left.  Any navigation from there gets the selector in the correct position.
Trying to figure out what's going on here, I took the Example Rowlist app, included my 9 patch and modified "rowlistscene.xml" like so:
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8" ?> 

<!--********** Copyright 2016 Roku Corp.  All Rights Reserved. **********-->

<component name = "RowListExample" extends = "Scene" initialFocus = "mybutton" >

  <script type = "text/brightscript" >

    <![CDATA[

    sub init()
      m.top.backgroundURI = "pkg:/images/rsgde_bg_hd.jpg"

      m.rowlist = m.top.findNode("exampleRowList")

      mybutton = m.top.findnode("mybutton")
      mybutton.observeField("buttonSelected", "clicked")

      m.rowlist.content = CreateObject("roSGNode", "RowListContent")

      m.top.setFocus(true)
    end sub

    function clicked()
      ? " MyButton clicked :: setting focus on rowlist"
       if m.rowlist = invalid then m.rowlist = m.top.getchild(1)
       m.rowlist.setFocus(true)
    end function

    ]]>

  </script>

  <children >

      <Button id="mybutton" minwidth="300" height="100" text="click me" translation = "[ 130, 30 ]"  />
      <RowList 
        id = "exampleRowList" 
        translation = "[ 130, 160 ]" 
        itemComponentName = "RowListItem" 
        numRows = "4" 
        itemSize = "[ 1608, 308 ]" 
        rowItemSize = "[ [512, 288] ]" 
        rowItemSpacing = "[ [40, 0] ]"
        itemSpacing = "[ 0, 40 ]" 
        showRowLabel = "[ true ]" 
        focusBitmapUri="pkg:/images/highlight_focus.9.png" />

  </children>

</component>


and commented out the scaling in "rowlistitem.xml"
    sub showfocus()
      'scale = 1 + (m.top.focusPercent * 0.08)
      'm.itemposter.scale = [scale, scale]
    end sub



It has the exact same problem - on first focus to the rowlist, the custom focusBitmapUrl is offset to the left and any navigation corrects it. 



Is this a problem with the 9 patch I'm using, is there something else going on?  Any suggestions?
tyvmia
Joe
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joetesta
Roku Guru

Re: Rowlist focusBitmapUri offset on first focus

fwiw toggling focus on first entry corrects it;
    function clicked()
      ? " MyButton clicked :: setting focus on rowlist"
       m.rowlist.setFocus(true)
       mybutton = m.top.findnode("mybutton")
       mybutton.setFocus(true)
       m.rowlist.setFocus(true)
    end function


Maybe need to do this anywhere there's a rowlist with a custom focusBitmapUri ?
aspiring
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joetesta
Roku Guru

Re: Rowlist focusBitmapUri offset on first focus

Update: this bug is affected by rowFocusAnimationStyle, seems this only happens when using the default "floatingFocus" and using "fixedFocusWrap" prevents the bug.
Wonder if this is something that might be corrected?
aspiring
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BVatBBOD
Visitor

Re: Rowlist focusBitmapUri offset on first focus

Found another "workaround" solution....

m.rowlist.setFocus(true)
m.rowlist.setFocus(false)
m.rowlist.setFocus(true)


Seems to do the trick
Thanks to the guys over at the Roku Developers Slack chat who pointed me here and helped me come up with a solution!

See https://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=138220To join!
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silentEngineer
Channel Surfer

Re: Rowlist focusBitmapUri offset on first focus

i need help for this too not the solutions mentioned are not working for me.

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