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[anusha_tirunaha]

I have developed a screen using roImageCanvas on this i m having an image slideshow on the first half of the screen .I am able to slide the image using a while loop.But I want a screen on which on first half images should slide .On the second half there are some movie thumbnails .And on press of down button I should be able navigate to those thumbnails.But I m not able to achieve this because it is not coming out of while loop.

Please help me .................how I will be able slide images and as well as navigate to to the thumbnails.................I have seen similar screen in hulu plus...................please kindly provide me a direction to proceed.

[RokuJoel]

First of all, I think you probably mean roScreen - roImageCanvas isn't really very good at sliding things. Second, if you want to slide things around while still allowing the user to navigate, you need to switch from using:

msg=wait(0,port) 

to something more like:

msg=port.getmessage()

That way, you can continue to update the screen while listening for roUniversalControlEvent and other event types. Pseudocode:

while true
     'get message from port
     'if user input then act on message, calculate new screen positions
     'if download of graphics complete, update graphic image
     'unload offscreen graphics
     'request download of any graphics that are about to come onto the screen
     'update screen positions of graphics
     'update screen [i.e: screen.swapbuffers()]
end while

None of these should be written so as to block user interaction, so that means for downloading images, either use roTextureManager or use async roURLTransfer with the unique ID property so you can track which downloads to tmp:/ apply to which images on screen.

- Joel