Stoopid newbie question - simple XML edit SageTV3.xml

[pseudonym]

Trying to follow suggestion given at the bottom of this thread:
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25776

Am trying to stop the vertical wrap that occurs on menus like favorites, EPG etc.

1. I shut down SageTV Media Center (not using service, just standby in sys tray)

2. I made a backup copy of SageTV3.xml, called it SageTV3.xml.backup

3. I edited SageTV3.xml and (for test) replaced all occurances of

<WrapVNav>true

with

<WrapVNav>false

There were 30+ occurances changed. I realize that's more than I want but this was just a test to see what it does...

4. Started SageTVMC again.

All menus still wrap vertically, I can find no indication that SageTV's UI changed at all. Is there a further procedure I need to follow? I looked in the Studio.PDF and didn't find anything, maybe I missed it...

Thanks and regards,
--pseudonym

[Opus4]

<WrapVNav> doesn't control wrap-around scrolling; that controls whether you would go up or down to the next UI element when you get to the top or bottom of the table list, or whether up/down would keep focus within that panel/table/etc.

If you are editing the XML file directly, you would check <TableWrapping>, which uses a value of 1 for vertical wrap-around scrolling. That line doesn't exist at all in the XML file when it is disabled, so I guess you would either delete that line or at least try removing the 1.

The XML lines aren't fully documented in the Studio manual, because it expects that people would use Studio. You can fairly easily find the widget associated with a UI element by viewing the "UI Components" under the Debug menu item in Studio. You can expand that to see the UI widgets & then jump to the widget itself or its theme source.

- Andy

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by Opus4

If you are editing the XML file directly, you would check <TableWrapping>, which uses a value of 1 for vertical wrap-around scrolling. That line doesn't exist at all in the XML file when it is disabled, so I guess you would either delete that line or at least try removing the 1.

My bad; I gave you the wrong property name to search for. Andy beat me to the punch with the correction.

Presumably replacing the 1 with a 0 would turn off the vertical-wrapping flag (but I haven't actually tried it).

[pseudonym]

Thank you both, Andy and Greg. Now I have a better idea how to navigate in Studio, and I will look at that a bit more. I'm not familiar with XML, I'm sure that wasn't obvious

And, changing the '1' in <TableWrapping>1 to a '0' <TableWrapping>0 does indeed work! I did the replace globally and now all the long displays stop at the bottom. Exactly what I wanted.

Thanks again and regards,
--pseudonym