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[dynamitemedia]

ok excuse me if i am getting confused here....

first my button info is in the refreshShowDetail function, and then that is called in the showDetailScreen function

Function showDetailScreen(screen As Object, showList As Object, showIndex as Integer) As dynamic    
if validateParam(screen, "roSpringboardScreen", "showDetailScreen") = false return -1
if validateParam(showList, "roArray", "showDetailScreen") = false return -1

 refreshShowDetail(screen, showList, showIndex)

is that essentially the same thing? here is refreshShowdetails

Function refreshShowDetail(screen As Object, showList As Object, showIndex as Integer) As dynamic

    if validateParam(screen, "roSpringboardScreen", "refreshShowDetail") = false return -1
    if validateParam(showList, "roArray", "refreshShowDetail") = false return -1
                  show = showList[showIndex] 
                  screen.ClearButtons()
                   screen.AddButton(1, "Play from beginning")			
                   PlayStart = RegRead(showList[showIndex].ContentId)
		      if PlayStart = invalid then              
                  else if PlayStart = "0"                    
 		else
			screen.AddButton(2, "Resume playing")    
		endif
                	screen.AllowUpdates(true)
                	screen.SetContent(show)
                	screen.Show()
End Function

as you see i need the info so i can do this PlayStart = RegRead(showList[showIndex].ContentId)

so when i tried the method you showed me i was having all sorts of issues because i need showList[showIndex].ContentId to check for the last position.

so what do you suggest now?

also that showVideoScreen(showList[showIndex]) was taking me direct to the video and bypassing the video detail screen

been trying several things but i keep getting "not dim'd" errors or something each time

[dynamitemedia]

Guys, i tried a few other things and still not working, i think the issue is cause i dont have the content id yet.

thus the dim'd errror. i think i may have to when i click on the poster to enter i need to post something to registry that i can then pull out to do your sub as described endless, or after seeing my code do you see a different way?

[TheEndless]

If you already have the code in refreshShowDetail, then just call it again immediately after showVideoScreen...

showVideoScreen(showList[showIndex])
refreshShowDetail(screen, showList, showIndex)

[dynamitemedia]

Endless, crazy thing is thats how i had it! haha

what was messing it all up was that there was a postRoll ad, and it would write the new position for that and save it, even though it wasn't the actual "episode.contentId".

so i had to then add a few things to my video array so i would know it was a ad, then in the area where it would write to the registry i added in a check to see if it was a ad or not. if it was a ad it would do nothing if it wasnt a ad or the main video it would then write to the registry.

i thought something was odd that when watching a preroll and i hit up it would always do what i wanted it to do, but if i watched the post roll it wouldnt. i had assumed incorrectly that it would know it wasn't the actual video.

it was the hitting up that i for some reason kept missing when trying to duplicate. because i would sit and watch the post roll to be sure that was working correctly!

Thanks guys glad i was actually on the right path to begin with, was just the original code was not made for a simulated playlist