Video Library clone

[sub]

Is "BaseButtonListUiTask.SelectedItem(Object o)" et al supposed to return the zeroth item on mouse movement? I'd like to know when a new item is selected by keyboard/mouse but this function appears to produce extraneous callbacks. I could go back to what I was doing before but it wasn't very clean.

The SelectedItem() callback happens if the active selection in the list moves to a different item (whether mouse click or keyboard/remote event).

Also, I don't see a simple way to have the selected list item stay within a 'viewport' until the user scrolls to the top/bottom and has to display previously offscreen items. How is this done in other plugins (using the aforementioned base class)?

I'm not sure what you mean. The selected item in the list is always visible, so the list will automatically scroll to show a new set of items if it needs to for the active selection to remain visible.

[jasonbs10]

I'll double check my log output for the first problem - it's unlikely that I would be the first one to notice a problem here.

To hopefully clarify, if I scroll down a few pages and then start pressing 'up', the highlight remains on the bottom-most item. When the first page of items is reached, the highlight will then move up until it meets the first entry. The default Video/Music Plugin behavior is to always have the highlight move to the top of the screen before changing which items are actually on screen.

[sub]

To hopefully clarify, if I scroll down a few pages and then start pressing 'up', the highlight remains on the bottom-most item. When the first page of items is reached, the highlight will then move up until it meets the first entry. The default Video/Music Plugin behavior is to always have the highlight move to the top of the screen before changing which items are actually on screen.

Sounds like maybe you're not giving the uiList a chance to rerender. Maybe also need call uiList.needsRendering() in your plugin's needsRendering().

[jasonbs10]

Yup, your first hint fixed both problems. Thanks sub.

[jwb5463]

Is there an equivalent of
<ShowDeleteInVideoLibrary>false</ShowDeleteInVideoLibrary>

or any other way to remove the Delete menu option?

[jasonbs10]

I forgot about that option as well as <ConfirmDeleteInVideoLibrary> in the first release. I decided to rewrite most of the code but it should be ready to upload by this weekend.

[jasonbs10]

The latest version is attached. I'll wait a bit for bug reports then add a basic wiki page and create a new post in the Plugins forum.

Changes include:

* Dependencies changed so .net 2.0 is now sufficient.
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* Remembers the on-screen location of selected items when backing
* out of directories. Also remembers after shuffle, delete, etc.
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* Refreshes directory contents once every few seconds.

[stustunz]

one thing i noticed is that i use a usb hard drive and when thats not plugged in a get the big red_X on the screen like you do on a client machine when it cant find the server

[jasonbs10]

Was there anything obvious in the logs? I'm not sure what would cause the red_X vs just quitting back the the main menu when an error is encountered. In any case, there aren't any checks for the top-level paths coming from config.xml. What does "/settings/VideoLibraryDirectory" look like for you?

[jasonbs10]

Try this dll when you get the chance.