Add another element to the horizontal main menu

[Northpole]

I was wondering if it would be possible to add another element to the horizontal menu xml. Currently there are 3 elements that I am aware of that I can use, ButtonBackground, MenuButton and VideoInset. I had cheated and used the ButtonBackground to display the N logo on the main page but this causes problems with the mouse right clicking. Would it be possilbe to add either the TaskImage or Cutaway elements (or something else) like in the vertical menu xml. Thanks.

[sub]

Ok, the next version also supports an optional CutAway elment in the horizontal skin.

[Northpole]

Thanks Sub!

[imilne]

Anything I need to do with SubMenu to ensure it supports this too?

Iain

[sub]

I dont really know anything about how SubMenu is written, or how closely it tries to emulate the built in screens. If it's just a copy of NPVR's normal menu screens, extracted by Reflector or similar, and tweaked slightly, then you'd probably want to add support for an additonal optional 'CutAway' element in the skin.xml. If it's present, then make sure it's added to the render list.

[imilne]

If it's just a copy of NPVR's normal menu screens, extracted by Reflector or similar

Ooh, no, nothing as fancy as that. You posted the source and I took it from there (so it's still kinda similar)

I haven't looked at its code in yonks though, but it sounds like there's not much to do.

Iain

[sub]

Ah, I forgot about that sample.

To replicate the changes I made,

Code:

private UiElement cutawayBackUiElement = null;

Code:

if (skinHelper.ElementIsDefined("CutAway"))
            {
                cutawayBackUiElement = new UiElement("CutAway", skinHelper.GetRelativeElementRectangle("CutAway"), skinHelper.RenderElement(null, "CutAway", new Hashtable()));
                cutawayBackUiElement.alpha = skinHelper.GetElementAlpha("CutAway");
            }

In GetRenderList()

Code:

// render cutaway background
            if (cutawayBackUiElement != null)
            {
                renderList.Add(cutawayBackUiElement);
            }

[imilne]

Brilliant, thanks.

One of these days I must get SubMenu working with vertical menus too (I have your code for that), but I've just never found the time for it...

Iain