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[tacticalcity]

Right now when a user opens the channel, the last item in the menu chain is selected. In our case it is our store. Knowing our particular audience many will be offended by that and assume we did that on purpose and are shoving our products down their throat.

Wanting to avoid this impending complaint, i would like to make it so the first item in our main menu is selected when they first open the channel.

How do I do that? Is there some code I put into the XML?

[tacticalcity]

Nobody has done this yet?

[EnTerr]

Slow down, please. This is a forum/message board - not IRC/instant messaging.
After asking a question, give it say 3 workdays before wondering why no answers.
And in the case of RokuCo employees, make that a week or two. (No guarantee)

PS. also, do your own research - most of such questions (new bugs notwithstanding) have already been asked and answered in the past.

[RokuJoel]

Hi, it would be helpful to see your code - are you using roListScreen or displaying a menu in some other way? With an roListScreen you can call setFocusedListItem(0) to select the first item in the list.

- Joel

[tacticalcity]

@eRR Terr
I get the assumption that I would have just posted without searching, but that is not the case with me. I search first. And I keep searching rather than just relying on one source for information. If the question has been asked before then I am using the wrong keywords to find the answer. For example, I found the developers blog had some tips on how to play an into video (my other open question). It's a bit complicated and over my head...but I'm gonna give it a go the first moment I have to cut my teeth into it.

As far as slowing my roll...felt like an eternity to me! 😉 It had been a couple days, and JT had me spoiled by solving my previous issues same day. It is not like I am snapping my fingers at you. I was just surprised 33 other developers had a chance to look at it, and all of them were like me and had no idea how to solve it. Figured this would have come up before.

BACK TO BUISINESS...

@ RokuJoel
I am using the VideoPlayer example/template from the SDK. To my knowledge I have not changed that part of the code. The only "code" related changes I made where to change the color of some text and to remove the ratings stars for the video. JT helped me figure both those things out. I can look up more information when I get hope tonight. But I started this Jan 5th, and am using the version of the SDK that was available for download then. I doubt it has changed since then.

If that doesn't answer your question, no worries. Tonight when I get home I would look inside my .zip folder and find what is being used and post it here.

I am a big time NOOB. Used to do some web development, but got out of the game when XML took off. And BrightScript is pretty foreign to me. So slow walk me through this please. Thanks much. Appreciate the help and patience.

[tacticalcity]

OK, so here are the files inside my SOURCE folder for the Video Player example from the SDK that I am using.

Which file do you need me to get you the code for? I peeked around inside of them and did not see roListScreen anywhere. But I may have missed it.

[tacticalcity]

This is the screen I am trying to change.



It is automatically selecting the last item in the list of categories. But I think my using the word "list" is confusing people. Because I think this page might be controlled via the appPosterScreen.brs.

[tacticalcity]

I tried making the suggested change above to the following code, but it had no effect. It did not break anything, but it didn't change the behavior on any of the screens either.

'******************************************************
'** Display the home screen and wait for events from 
'** the screen. The screen will show retreiving while
'** we fetch and parse the feeds for the game posters
'******************************************************
Function showPosterScreen(screen As Object, category As Object) As Integer

    if validateParam(screen, "roPosterScreen", "showPosterScreen") = false return -1
    if validateParam(category, "roAssociativeArray", "showPosterScreen") = false return -1

    m.curCategory = 0
    m.curShow     = 0
    temp=getcategorylist(category)
    
    
    if temp.count() > 1 then
    	screen.SetListNames(temp)
    	?temp.count();" categories"
    	else 
    	?"only ";temp.count();" category"
    end if
    screen.SetContentList(getShowsForCategoryItem(category, m.curCategory))
    screen.Show()

    while true
        msg = wait(0, screen.GetMessagePort())
        if type(msg) = "roPosterScreenEvent" then
            print "showPosterScreen | msg = "; msg.GetMessage() " | index = "; msg.GetIndex()
            if msg.isListFocused() then
                m.curCategory = msg.GetIndex()
                m.curShow = 0
                screen.setcontentlist([])
                screen.SetFocusedListItem(0)
                screen.showmessage("Retrieving")
                screen.SetContentList(getShowsForCategoryItem(category, m.curCategory))
                screen.clearmessage()
				print "list focused | current category = "; m.curCategory
            else if msg.isListItemSelected() then
                m.curShow = msg.GetIndex()
                print "list item selected | current show = "; m.curShow
                m.curShow = displayShowDetailScreen(category, m.curShow)
                screen.SetFocusedListItem(m.curShow)
                print "list item updated  | new show = "; m.curShow
            else if msg.isScreenClosed() then
                return -1
            end if
        end If
    end while


End Function

[tacticalcity]

OK, so i was looking in the wrong .brs file. Needed to be looking in the appHomeScreen.brs which makes sense given the name.

I needed to make this change...


Find this block of code (this is the edited version.

'******************************************************
'** Display the home screen and wait for events from 
'** the screen. The screen will show retreiving while
'** we fetch and parse the feeds for the game posters
'******************************************************
Function showHomeScreen(screen) As Integer

    if validateParam(screen, "roPosterScreen", "showHomeScreen") = false return -1

    initCategoryList()
    screen.SetContentList(m.Categories.Kids)
    screen.SetFocusedListItem(0)
    screen.Show()

    while true
        msg = wait(0, screen.GetMessagePort())
        if type(msg) = "roPosterScreenEvent" then
            print "showHomeScreen | msg = "; msg.GetMessage() " | index = "; msg.GetIndex()
            if msg.isListFocused() then
                print "list focused | index = "; msg.GetIndex(); " | category = "; m.curCategory
            else if msg.isListItemSelected() then
                print "list item selected | index = "; msg.GetIndex()
                kid = m.Categories.Kids[msg.GetIndex()]
                if kid.type = "special_category" then
                    displaySpecialCategoryScreen()
                else
                    displayCategoryPosterScreen(kid)
                end if
            else if msg.isScreenClosed() then
                return -1
            end if
        end If
    end while

    return 0

End Function

And make sure this value in side the () was 0

screen.SetFocusedListItem(0)

Just like I was told do above...I just didn't know which file to do this in.

Why am I spelling all this out? So the next guy using the VideoPlayer example who wants to make the same change will know what to do.