Any chance to add a second list to BaseButtonListUiTask ?

[lupus11]

As I can see from the class definition, there is only one list in BaseButtonListUiTask. Is there any chance to handle a second list, using this class ? What would be a good starting sample to handle two lists (left and right) ?

Thank You
lupus

[sub]

Sorry, I dont have any sample for you that does anything like that.

You might be better off using the BaseButtonUiTask base class instead, and using two UiSimpleList objects. You can see UiSimpleList class in use in the weather sample's AddCity popup.

[lupus11]

Wow, that was quick. Thank You Sub. I will give it a try.

lupus

[lupus11]

I successfully managed to implement two UiSimpleLists. Now a new question came up: The one that has the focus should be active, the other one should be inactive.
I can handle this using the Activate/Deactivate functions the list. However in the "not active" state the GetRenderList function returns an empty render list. If I just set the active flag to false in the debugger (without calling Deactivate) everything works fine and the list is painted deactivated. What am I doing wrong ?

Thank you and sorry about the beginner's question, I have been doing MFC for years but .NET is quite new to me

lupus

[sub]

Just calling Activate/Deactivate should do the job.

If you want, you can email the project to me to look at for you. If you do want to do this, let me know and I'll PM you my email address.

[lupus11]

It would be very kind of you to have a look at code. What I am trying to do, is to port my personal version of MusicAlbums to the new interface. I had spent quite some time to add database and exteded playlist support to the "classic" version and now found out, that the UI just does not look good in 720x480 on my HD television.

Thank You
lupus

[lupus11]

Hello Sub,

attached is a slighly modified version of the "Hello World" sample, that describes my problem. It contains two list boxes. I want to switch the focus by CursorLeft and CursorRight and want the list boxes to show up activated or deactivated. However if I enable the Activate/Deactivate functions in the keyboard I handler I start getting errors at rendering time. It is most probably just a simple bug, but I do not get behind it. The lines are marked with "PROBLEM" in the code

Thanks a lot for your help
lupus

[sub]

Your problem was occuring because you didnt have one of the UISimpleList composite images defined in your skin.xml. Add something like this:

Code:

    <CompositeImage name="RightListListSelectedInactive" size="65.0,5.0">
                <DrawCommonImage name="ListSelectedInactiveItemBackground"/>
            <DrawText text="@name" loc="7,12" size="100,100" textStyle="GeneralTextStyle" align="Left"/>
            </CompositeImage>

[sub]

Your problem was occuring because you didnt have one of the UISimpleList composite images defined in your skin.xml. Add something like this:

Code:

    <CompositeImage name="RightListListSelectedInactive" size="65.0,5.0">
                <DrawCommonImage name="ListSelectedInactiveItemBackground"/>
            <DrawText text="@name" loc="7,12" size="100,100" textStyle="GeneralTextStyle" align="Left"/>
            </CompositeImage>

[lupus11]

Thanks a lot ! What a quick support again !

lupus11