New user new install and a few "issues"

[sub]

You probably need to edit your C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Skin\Default\Menu\Vertical.xml to include: visibleButtons="5"

Code:

<Element name="MenuButtonNormal" location="3,26" size="30,8" visibleButtons="5">
    <Text text="@buttonText" location="13,00" size="100,100" font="MenuItems" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
  </Element

[rkircher]

You probably need to edit your C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Skin\Default\Menu\Vertical.xml to include: visibleButtons="5"

Code:

<Element name="MenuButtonNormal" location="3,26" size="30,8" visibleButtons="5">
    <Text text="@buttonText" location="13,00" size="100,100" font="MenuItems" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
  </Element

Adding visibleButtons="5" to Vertical.xml file at path location C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\NPVR\Skin\Default\Menu did not change the Main Menu layout. I have attached my revised Vertical.xml and the original version for your review to see if I goofed. To be sure, I restarted NPVR program and also rebooted the computer, still no change. Any ideas?
Thanks, Dick

[sub]

Before I'd posted my reply above I tried it, with only the menu options you mentioned, and adding the visibleButtons="5" fixed it, giving the tv guide option at the top.

[rkircher]

When you tried adding visibleButtons="5" in your system to test this change, did you use my config.xml and Vertical.xml files? If not, then I would guess that something else is wrong in one of those files, or perhaps in another file that effects the main menu layout that I don't know about yet. I'm stuck because I don't know how NPVR software works without source code, and what files affect the Main Menu appearance. If nothing else, could you send me the relevant files from your working installation and I can try swapping them in as replacements to my files until my menu layout responds in a logical way to the programming in the .xml files?

With my files (previously sent as attachments), any change to the menu layout in config.xml yields completely irrational results. The menu items and default pointer change in ways that have no association to the order of the menu items in in the menu layout section of config.xml.

As I said, I have installed 2.3.6 so that should define what files are in my system to you, but I don't know what files the NPVR installer replaces and what files it does not. In other words, I need more knowledge about how NPVR works to trouble-shoot it on my own. I have looked in the forums and have not found anything that helps me so far. Where would I find trouble-shooting information for a menu layout problem as I have described? Thanks for any information, Dick

[sub]

All I did was set all my menu tasks to disabled in config.xml, except for the ones you identified (though using 'Search' instead of 'Searchlite'):

Code:

<MenuLayout>
    <MenuItem enabled="true">TV Guide</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="true">Recordings</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="true">Search</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="true">Live TV</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="false">Music</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="false">Videos</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="false">Pictures</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="false">DVD</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="true">Exit</MenuItem>
  </MenuLayout>

Then I added the visibleButtons="5" to Vertical.xml (attached), and it gave me this:

[rkircher]

All I did was set all my menu tasks to disabled in config.xml, except for the ones you identified (though using 'Search' instead of 'Searchlite'):

Code:

<MenuLayout>
    <MenuItem enabled="true">TV Guide</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="true">Recordings</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="true">SearchLite</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="true">Live TV</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="false">Music</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="false">Videos</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="false">Pictures</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="false">DVD</MenuItem>
    <MenuItem enabled="true">Exit</MenuItem>
  </MenuLayout>

Then I added the visibleButtons="5" to Vertical.xml (attached), and it gave me this:

I think we are getting closer, but problem still not solved. I replaced my Vertical.xml with the one you returned to me by attachment, but that made NO difference. I examined your Vertical.xml file and noticed the first line to be suspicious:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> I changed it to <Vertical.xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>. Again, that made no difference.

Next I changed my Config.xml file to be exactly like yours except "Search" was changed to SearchLite. Incidentally, Search has never worked, but SearchLite does, so that is why I use SearchLite. My changes included deleting 3 lines of code menu layout code that were not used. So my changed code looked like this:
<MenuLayout>
<MenuItem enabled="true">TV Guide</MenuItem>
<MenuItem enabled="true">Recordings</MenuItem>
<MenuItem enabled="true">SearchLite</MenuItem>
<MenuItem enabled="true">Live TV</MenuItem>
<MenuItem enabled="false">Music</MenuItem>
<MenuItem enabled="false">Videos</MenuItem>
<MenuItem enabled="false">Pictures</MenuItem>
<MenuItem enabled="false">DVD</MenuItem>
<MenuItem enabled="true">Exit</MenuItem>
</MenuLayout>
I tried this and my Main Menu still stayed the same, NO change. It is still the same layout as I showed on my first post.

Next I deleted the SearchLite line in Config.xml to be sure NPVR software was not using some other file on the system named Config.sys. I also changed Vertical.xml file to visibileButtons="4". The results are shown in the attached screenshot Menu-4-entries.jpg.

Notice that the shaded area has space for 5 menu items. Also notice that it is still messed up and NOT in the desired order as listed in Config.xml, and has the wrong default menu item selection as the 3rd menu item (it moved from being on the bottom). Any ideas, particularly how we can determine if Vertical.xml is found and actually being used by the NPVR software?

[sub]

Are you actually using the 'default' skin, or some copy of it? Mine has the whole left side shaded. Yours also looks like it's still configured for 6 buttons.

[mvallevand]

Just to confirm that this is not a SearchLite problem I tried sub's suggestions and it worked for me.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Are you actually using the 'default' skin, or some copy of it? Mine has the whole left side shaded. Yours also looks like it's still configured for 6 buttons.

Yes I just tried with the old Wave skin and it has this problem. One nice thing about Wave is that it doesn't scroll around though, it just leaves the 5 menu options static.

Martin

[sub]

Yeah, I'm sure he's not using the default skin. If he was using skin file I supplied, it'd have shaded the whole left on the screen, and the text would have been further left.