STV Import: Dynamic Customisable Main Menu (v6.4 20/Dec/2007 for SageTV 5.0/6.0)

[krasev]

Installing Dynamic Menues om SageTV6 (with fresh installed WinXP Sp2 and SageTV6, Java 1.5.0_8, IE7RC1, WMP11) I never coud find "Paste menu item from clipboard" in "Edit Menues", even though "Copy menu items to clipboard" exists there.
Then in "Rename" I can not use ''Paste from the clipboard" trying to rename menu item (well... at least, it exist ). I tried to troubleshoot this looking for copies of "xerces.jar" file to delete it, but I couldn't find it on my computer at all. The rest in "Dynamic Menues" plugin works just fine.
The same happened on my other computer. Any suggestions what the cause of it? Please, help.

[nielm]

Originally Posted by mkanet

I'm not sure what I did. But, all of a sudden I can't save the menu definition file anymore. When I make changes, if I select that option, nothing happens. All functions of the dynamic menus work, except for that.
PPS: I checked the version of dynamic menus and it says: (Dyanamic Menu Version 3.4 -- 20/10/2005)

thats the old version: which one have you installed? perhaps you loaded an old STV by mistake? (the 5.3 JAR is not compatible with imports made with the older 3.4 STVI.)

[nielm]

Originally Posted by krasev

Installing Dynamic Menues om SageTV6 (with fresh installed WinXP Sp2 and SageTV6, Java 1.5.0_8, IE7RC1, WMP11) I never coud find "Paste menu item from clipboard" in "Edit Menues", even though "Copy menu items to clipboard" exists there.
Then in "Rename" I can not use ''Paste from the clipboard" trying to rename menu item (well... at least, it exist ). I tried to troubleshoot this looking for copies of "xerces.jar" file to delete it, but I couldn't find it on my computer at all. The rest in "Dynamic Menues" plugin works just fine.
The same happened on my other computer. Any suggestions what the cause of it? Please, help.

Paste menu *item* only appears when the windows clipboard contains something resembling a menuitemlet (ie it starts with <?xml...).

Paste from clipboard in rename should work when clipboard contains any text though...

You are using Sage on windows desktop (not placeshifter or MVP)?

Any change of a log file segment from when you try to paste?

Check also that nielm_sageutls.JAR is in the JARs directory (hmmm did I actually delivery it? If not, get it from the zipfile of one of my other plugins such as imdb search -- I will check + fix the zipfile later!)

[krasev]

I have only "nielm_sagemenureader.jar". Looks like you didn't delever "nielm_sageutls.jar". I don't have it. It doesn't exist in older versions (5.1 & 5.2) which I tried as well.
"Paste menu item from clipboard" doesn't appear after copying something, sure I checked it.

[nielm]

Originally Posted by krasev

I have only "nielm_sagemenureader.jar". Looks like you didn't delever "nielm_sageutls.jar". I don't have it. It doesn't exist in older versions (5.1 & 5.2) which I tried as well.
"Paste menu item from clipboard" doesn't appear after copying something, sure I checked it.

sorry 'bout that...

[jbarr]

Is there any way to put the "Future Airings" button onto the "Basic" Options menu instead of the "Advanced" menu? I'm finding that the Basic menu covers probably 90% of my needs, yet I'm constantly flipping to the Advanced menu to view Future Airings. Is this something that this Plugin can manage, or is this a "core" change?

[krasev]

Yea.... everything works now after I found your nielm_sageutls.jar file.
Thank you very much. Thank you for this wonderful plugin.

[nielm]

Originally Posted by jbarr

Is there any way to put the "Future Airings" button onto the "Basic" Options menu

It can be changed with an import (anything you can do with studio can be automated in an import) but it's not within the scope of this plugin...

[bcjenkins]

Originally Posted by nielm

Thanks for the log... that explained the problem perfectly... When leaving detailed setup, it goes back to the setup menu; which prompts for a PIN, which in that situation, deadlocks sage...
Quick workaround is to remove the PIN from the setup menu, and put it on each item of the setup menu rather than on the menu itself... I will have to see how to make it work better than that.

Thanks for the tip. It works as long as I don't exit Sage. As soon as I do and try to reenter, I get an error. Please see jpg attachment.

[nielm]

I'm an idiot... I'm never adding any new features, because they are just full of bugs

unpack the attached zip into your Sage home directory, replacing SageMenu.dtd and it should work...

[bcjenkins]

Originally Posted by nielm

I'm an idiot... I'm never adding any new features, because they are just full of bugs

unpack the attached zip into your Sage home directory, replacing SageMenu.dtd and it should work...

HA! I wish I was half the idiot you are! Worked like a champ. I presume this fixed your fix, and not the original issue or pin coding the setup menu?

Thanks again

B

BTW - I love any feature that keeps my exploring kids out of causing issues. Keep them coming!

[nielm]

v5.4 23 Oct 2006

• add a cache for menu item pin codes (so you do not have to enter them every damn time!)
• fix deadlock problem if pincode is set on a shortcut menu (eg Setup Menu)
• Fix DTD to add pincodes to Internal Sceen Menu Items
• add nielm_sageutls.jar to zip

[jlabrue]

Originally Posted by nielm

v5.4 23 Oct 2006

• add a cache for menu item pin codes (so you do not have to enter them every damn time!)
• fix deadlock problem if pincode is set on a shortcut menu (eg Setup Menu)
• Fix DTD to add pincodes to Internal Sceen Menu Items
• add nielm_sageutls.jar to zip

Thanks for the update. Don't worry about feature bugs. Any new feature (pins) with a few bugs is better than no feature at all! My kids no longer mess up Sage AND they can't reboot my box or other task that are in my Admin menu. Thanks!!!

[Truxton]

I upgraded my SageTV to v6.0 and added Dynamic Customisable Main Menu v5.4 and it loads my old custom menu but will not change any screens, I try to have it load default_menu_V6_0.xml and it gives me the following error....

Failed to load XML menu file
menu file=C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\default_menu_V6_0.xml
:
:
Errors:
Invalid top level node version: 1.3
when parsing C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\default_menu_V6_0.xml

Any help would be appriciated.

[EDIT]

Never Mind, I found the post about /net/sf/..........., deleted it and it's working.

[mike1961]

I have close to the latest (or the latest version). Here's the bug - it seems that entering Sage commands from the keyboard at a dynamic menu does not work (such as the keyboard command to bring up Sage Recordings, the Guide, etc). But, they do work at Sage windows. For example, if I set up in Sage so that Alt-Shift-1 shows Sage Recordings then at any menu in Sage (such as at the Sage Guide or when watching TV or at Sage Setup, etc.) it will work. But, it won't work at any of the customized menus.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Mike

[nielm]

Originally Posted by mike1961

I have close to the latest (or the latest version).

Please check which version you have -- its at the bottom of the popup options menu (where you add/remove menu items). Something similar to this was fixed in 5.3

[farfromuman]

I am having a strange problem, whenever I import the Dynamic Menus 5.4 with the latest EDL plugin (version 1.1.5) already installed the whole UI freezes. This happens in beta 13 and 14. Sage creates a new xml file but I have to kill the process and restart. After that the UI freezes in few minutes again. It seems like these 2 imports cannot get along. Any hints on how to try to solve this mystery?

Thanks,

Mariusz

[Snuffy2]

Originally Posted by farfromuman

I am having a strange problem, whenever I import the Dynamic Menus 5.4 with the latest EDL plugin (version 1.1.5) already installed the whole UI freezes. This happens in beta 13 and 14. Sage creates a new xml file but I have to kill the process and restart. After that the UI freezes in few minutes again. It seems like these 2 imports cannot get along. Any hints on how to try to solve this mystery?

Thanks,

Mariusz

I'm having the exact same problem.

I find that installing the Dynamic Menus 1st, THEN any other STVis, THEN the EDL Comskip (1.1.4-6) that seems to work ok.

The importer, by flachbar, that I used to use doesn't work with the new STVis either.

I'm not sure whether its the comskip or the dynamic menus.

This happened with 6.0.13 & 6.0.14

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by farfromuman

I am having a strange problem, whenever I import the Dynamic Menus 5.4 with the latest EDL plugin (version 1.1.5) already installed the whole UI freezes. This happens in beta 13 and 14. Sage creates a new xml file but I have to kill the process and restart. After that the UI freezes in few minutes again. It seems like these 2 imports cannot get along. Any hints on how to try to solve this mystery?

farfromuman and Snuffy2, It's probably the Comskip stvi that is the problem. The import was not deleting the ghost main menu that is created, which gives the appearance of a hang. I have fixed the non-deleting ghost main menu problem in the latest version (1.2). See if that fixes your problem

John

[perfessor101]

Hello,
I was trying to install Nielm's Dynamic Menu system and I keep getting this:


http://www.sage-community.org/index....icMenu#preview


Oops...
Trac detected an internal error:

database is locked

If you think this really should work and you can reproduce it. Then you should consider to report this problem to the Trac team.

Go to http://trac.edgewall.com/ and create a new ticket where you describe the problem, how to reproduce it. Don't forget to include the python traceback found below.

TracGuide — The Trac User and Administration Guide
Python traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/core.py", line 531, in cgi_start
real_cgi_start()
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/core.py", line 526, in real_cgi_start
dispatch_request(path_info, args, req, env)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/core.py", line 433, in dispatch_request
req.session = Session.Session(env, req, newsession)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/Session.py", line 51, in __init__
self.get_session(sid)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/Session.py", line 114, in get_session
self.update_sess_time()
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/Session.py", line 99, in update_sess_time
self['last_visit'] = sess_time
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/Session.py", line 59, in __setitem__
return self.set_var(key, val)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/Session.py", line 138, in set_var
self.purge_expired()
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/Session.py", line 175, in purge_expired
" AND var_value < %i)", mintime)
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/sqlite/main.py", line 237, in execute
self.con._begin()
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/sqlite/main.py", line 503, in _begin
self.db.execute("BEGIN")
OperationalError: database is locked

: and was just curious if there was another listing of the install instructions elsewhere.

Thanks for your time,
Bobby

ps -- the main pages are fine ... it's just this and one or two others ...