Roku Developer Program

[vaxace]

Does the overhang artwork (logos, slices, etc) have to live on pkg:?
I was hoping to pull it from my HTTP server during development to simplify updating and testing of new artwork.

Thanks.

[vaxace]

Bump.
Maybe someone at Roku will answer this one.
It should be a definitive answer.

[dynamitemedia]

I am almost 99.9% sure you can

why not just give it a try, keep in mind it will use a lot of bandwidth each time someone views it.

I noticed a huge spike in my traffic for just xml requests

[kbenson]

"vaxace" wrote:

It should be a definitive answer.

I don't have a definitive answer, but I highly doubt it has to be in pkg. I haven't run into a single instance where you have to specify the location of a file and it had to be in pkg:. It may not work with a URL, but I would be very surprised if you couldn't download into tmp: and use from there. it should be trivial to test in a test channel.

[jbrave]

One would expect this to work, but I just tried it, two different ways: 1 setting OverhangSliceHD with an http url when the app loads - no go, just a grey background, 2 setting the theme dynamically while the app is running to an http url. Nope. Doesn't seem to work.

Next I'll try forcing download of the object in question to the file system and then setting it, see if that works...

[jbrave]

Ok, what Does work so far: setting the Overhang Logo to a url. Next, can it be dynamically changed from moment to moment? Will see in a few minutes.

[jbrave]

Ok, so far nothing seems to work past the initial configuration setting for the app theme. Can someone else try experimenting with this? According to the manual, you can change and alter the theme using

SetThemeAttribute(String attributeName, String attributeValue)

and

ClearThemeAttribute(String attributeName)

but so far, no go...

[jbrave]

Ok, I've had very limited success with this now. First I loaded a image canvas before I load anything else in my app, then my posterscreen. I set the app manager to replace the OverhangLogoHD with a url. Then I close the poster and reload it. Well it worked once and I'm not sure why, but now the poster just loses focus or something - still displays but I'm getting image canvas events and not posterscreen events and I can't get back to it.

Anyway, I'm going to sleep...hope some intelligent person will figure out how to do dynamic changes to the theme elements and post here...

- Joel

[jbrave]

Ok, I didn't go to sleep. Here's what I figured out:

You can for certain load and change the overhang logo from an internet URL. So far, it does not update until you move the focus from the current poster item to a category, or if you load another screen on top and then close the screen. You may need to call screen.show() to get the change to happen at all.

[jbrave]

update:

Here's what is working for me now:

I have a function that assigns the updated url to the secondary poster art:

function Newtheme(url as string)
...
theme.OverhangSecondaryLogoHD=url
theme.OverhangSecondaryLogoSD=url
app.SetTheme(theme)
...
end function

then I have a dialog box function I call and return from:

sub displaybox()
m.history = CreateObject("roArray", 1, true)
lp=createobject("romessageport")
dialog=CreateObject("roOneLineDialog")
'dialog.ShowBusyAnimation()
dialog.SetTitle("busy")
dialog.setmessageport(lp)
dialog.show()
dialog.close()
end sub

The dialog goes so fast, it doesn't even appear on the screen. The graphics on the main poster screen update almost immediately.