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[dan_vitch]

I am trying to capture the fast forward remote click on roTextScreen. I am using roTextScreenEvent but this doesnt have isRemoteKeyPressed. I am able to use the remote on this page, fast forward and ok remote button both 'do things' on my screen I just cant get hold of the event/action.

I need to continue to use roTextScreen due to the amount of text (this is a EULA page).

I am doing a pretty standard event loop

    while true
        msg = wait(0, screen.getMessagePort())
        if type(msg) = "roTextScreenEvent"
            print "type: " type(msg)
            print "message: " msg
            if msg.isButtonPressed()
                idx = msg.getIndex()
                if valid(opts.buttons) and valid(opts.buttons[idx]) then
                    res = opts.buttons[idx].action(screen)
                end if
            else if msg.isRemoteKeyPressed() 'this doesnt work
                'print "remote index: " ; msg.getIndex()
            else if msg.isScreenClosed()
                exit while
            end if 
        
        endif
    end while

[TheEndless]

Fast-forward isn't available to BrightScript on that screen, because it's used to page the content. Generally speaking, any screen that has built-in functionality for a given remote button eats the keypress and doesn't expose it to BrightScript.

[dan_vitch]

The problem is the page scrolls too far. I guess the functionality is suppose to be fast forward causes the the text screen to scroll down so the first line off the screen becomes the top line on the screen. On my app the fast forward goes down goes down one line too far. I wouldn't care about this, but it was reported as a bug by the roku team.

[TheEndless]

"dan_vitch" wrote:
The problem is the page scrolls too far. I guess the functionality is suppose to be fast forward causes the the text screen to scroll down so the first line off the screen becomes the top line on the screen. On my app the fast forward goes down goes down one line too far. I wouldn't care about this, but it was reported as a bug by the roku team.

Just let them know that it's not something you have control over. Just about every channel I've ever published has had at least one item in the list from QA that is a firmware issue that's outside of my control.

[dan_vitch]

Will do. Thanks for the help