Roku Developer Program

[EnTerr]

Just got fw 7.0.9021 and noticing that pressing "Options" ("*") button on the remote when in-channel has started making a gratuitous "deadend" sound now. What's up with that?!

Re-stating verbosely: start an app (be it BrSc or native, does not matter). Press "*" on the remote (any remote, incl. ECP app) in a place where you know it did not complain in fw6.2. You'll hear a slightly-annoyed-"ding" (like when reaching end-of-a-list). Try some other button that is passive in that screen, say A/B or maybe InstantReplay - no ding. This (mis)behavior seems to be in the input API.

Not cool. Is it a regression (i seem to remember there was deadend beep before) or intentional - and if the latter, how is it cured?

[NewManLiving]

Yeah noticed that myself - Perhaps you need to return "True" that you handled it yourself: as in Scene Graph 😐

[EnTerr]

"NewManLiving" wrote:
Perhaps you need to return "True" that you handled it yourself: as in Scene Graph 😐

Can't - there is no facility for that in what i use (see here and here).

Also, AFAIR there is no way for an event to return code back in "classic" B/S events like roUniversalControlEvent. (If there were, we'd be doing 2-way comm. on ECP via roInputEvent.)

[NewManLiving]

Just trying to be funny. There is no way to return. But it may Be a side-effect from the Scene Graph event handler, which does require a return value.

[EnTerr]

Oy! Roku* - what happened with this?
Four months passed - did somebody look at it, will it be fixed?

I am using the "options" button in an app and my supposedly current rOS 7.0.9044 still makes the stupid sound - but which is worse, when i hold

down, the sound starts repeating itself and turns into a machine-gun-fire audio, akin to http://soundbible.com/1371-Uzi-Shooting.html

[EnTerr]

Issue still there in rOS 7.1.4062.

@Roku - is there a ticket on this? Any clarification notes from it?

[Komag]

Yeah, it's really annoying in my game to hear that sound every time the player wants to throw an Item or drink a potion.

[renojim]

Komag, what screen type are you using? I know it makes the sound for an image canvas and, for the record, the FF and Rew buttons also produce the sound, but I don't hear it when using an roScreen. I reported the FF/Rew image canvas regression years ago when I first noticed it and actually had it acknowledged in one of the beta forums as a bug, but it's still there years later, so I wouldn't hold out any hope of the asterisk button deadend sound being fixed.

-JT

[Komag]

I'm roScreen all the way, and it's only * that makes the sound, and it's only a partial sound, not the full thing

[RokuKC]

"EnTerr" wrote:
Oy! Roku* - what happened with this?
Four months passed - did somebody look at it, will it be fixed?

I am using the "options" button in an app and my supposedly current rOS 7.0.9044 still makes the stupid sound - but which is worse, when i hold

down, the sound starts repeating itself and turns into a machine-gun-fire audio, akin to http://soundbible.com/1371-Uzi-Shooting.html

I just filed an issue ticket for it.