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

[Polypro]

Yeah, I forgot about that...disregard my above post. As is, it's 99% perfect anyway

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[bcjenkins]

Is anyone else seeing slowness in custom menus for 6.2.7? Anything linked to a stock screen seems to come up right away. Anything linking to a custom menu takes forever.

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[Polypro]

I've got a "Watch DVD" sub-menu in "Media Center". In that I have the Play DVD command, and two links to open and close the DVD tray (Wizmo). I don't notice any slowness.

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[dvd_maniac]

Is anyone else seeing slowness in custom menus for 6.2.7?

Did I miss something? Is there an official release of Dynamic Menus for 6.2.7?

[bcjenkins]

Nope, poor wording on my part. Also, this is from MVPs. PC Clients were unaffected.

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[duglin]

Hi,
sorry if this is the wrong forum or if its a silly question, but which
Dynamic customizable main menu add-on should I use if I have:
Sage TV: 4.1.3.67
STV: 3-3.xml (v4.1.3.1)

I tried to find the one for Sage v4 but I only found ones for v3, v5 and v6.
thanks for the help.

Update 9/16:
I tried to instal v6.1 and nothing seemed to happen.
I tried to install v5.2 and I get an error when Sage starts up saying that it can't load
"SageMenuReader" class. Could this be due to the class file being compiled on an older
version of the JDK? I'm running Java v1.5.0_06.
Help! I feel like I'm about to mess up my entire setup :-)

-Doug

[nielm]

Originally Posted by duglin

Hi,
sorry if this is the wrong forum or if its a silly question, but which
Dynamic customizable main menu add-on should I use if I have:
Sage TV: 4.1.3.67
STV: 3-3.xml (v4.1.3.1)
I tried to instal v6.1 and nothing seemed to happen.

From the version history I guess 5.2 or 5.3. Later versions state that they are for 5.0 or 6.0 only
I cannot remember and no longer have any way to test...

I tried to install v5.2 and I get an error when Sage starts up saying that it can't load
"SageMenuReader" class. Could this be due to the class file being compiled on an older version of the JDK?

No.
Check that it unpacked correctly, and that the JAR files are in the correct directory and are readable.
Check that you restarted Sage (or the service for MVPs/Placeshifters/Unix clients)
As a last resort, enable debug logging (see faq) and post the log.

[duglin]

Originally Posted by nielm

From the version history I guess 5.2 or 5.3. Later versions state that they are for 5.0 or 6.0 only
I cannot remember and no longer have any way to test...

No.
Check that it unpacked correctly, and that the JAR files are in the correct directory and are readable.
Check that you restarted Sage (or the service for MVPs/Placeshifters/Unix clients)
As a last resort, enable debug logging (see faq) and post the log.

I'm using 5.2.
Here's the log files:
http://www.soaphub.org/sage/sagetv_1.txt
http://www.soaphub.org/sage/sagetv_0.txt
http://www.soaphub.org/sage/tv.sage.mod.0.log

Not sure which ones you needed so I just grabbed all the ones that were modified.

Yes everything is unpacked correctly and readable by the system. I've restarted both the UI and the service.

Anything else you can think of that I should try?
thanks
-Doug

[gplasky]

See what happens if you have a menu.xml file in the directory. You may need to rename one of your default menu files to that.


Gerry

[duglin]

that was it!!! I knew it had to be something easy that I missed!!
Thanks Gerry and thanks Nielm - plug-in looks great so far!
-Doug

[duglin]

I see how to use this plug-in to add new menus/sub-menus and
how to add new menu items to invoke external commands but
I'm a bit lost as to whether or not I can use it to modify an existing
command. For example, if I navigate down to the imported videos
and choose a file to play, can I use this plug-in to customize which
external command (or even internal command) is used to play the
media file? At that menu when I press the options button I get the
standard Sage options/menu, not this plug-in's customizable one.
thanks
-Doug

[gplasky]

nielm
So I'm wondering, since the production version of 2.8 is released, might we see some new functions or features in Dynamic mneus or will it be just updated to work with the latest. Either one would be great but I was just wondering.....




Gerry

[nielm]

v6.2 (21 Sep 2007) for SageTV 6.2 (Download)

• Use 6.2 themes
• Add 6.2 default menu file
• Fix Online Vids PIN prompt
• Add ability to browse for a menu item icon

[nielm]

Originally Posted by duglin

if I navigate down to the imported videos and choose a file to play, can I use this plug-in to customize which external command (or even internal command) is used to play the
media file?

No, thats a different plugin:

[nielm]

Originally Posted by gplasky

So I'm wondering, since the production version of 2.8 is released, might we see some new functions or features in Dynamic mneus or will it be just updated to work with the latest.

Just a minor update, sorry...

I will post a couple of new menuitemlets though...

[Polypro]

Thank you.

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[bcjenkins]

Is anyone having issues with the update while connecting via place shifter over an internet or authenticated connection? The screen is black after authentication.

Also, I am getting very poor screen transition speeds when using this on a MVP or a place shifting client to screens which are not standard SageTV commands.

Lastly, the default xml files seem to have the sage-community site and the menuitemlets have the sourceforge listing. Is there a JAR update that could be missing from the package?

I have tried this with Mac and Windows Vista placeshifting connections.

Niel, is there a debugging mode I can enable to provide useful data to you?

Thanks,

B

Server Specs:

Linux 2.6.22 kernel, java 1.5.11, SageTV 6.2.10 standard STV with only dynamic menus plugin loaded.

I get the following upon connecting:

Fri 9/21 11:32:47.480 Parsing Error: Unexpected "<EOF>" at column 188.

Expression: Size(NewWorkgroup) != Size(java_lang_String_replaceAll(NewWorkgroup, "[^A-Za-z0-9]", "") || Size(NewWorkgroup) > 15 || java_lang_Character_isDigit(java_lang_String_charAt(NewWorkgroup, 0))
Fri 9/21 11:32:47.500 Parsing Error: Undefined Method org_jdesktop_jdic_desktop_Desktop_open

Expression: org_jdesktop_jdic_desktop_Desktop_open(new_java_io_File("SageTV_Manual.pdf"))
Fri 9/21 11:32:47.508 Parsing Error: Syntax error

Expression: "REM Because of multiple Table widgets being used for various options w/o having to reload the menu, saving isepisode before setting focus for the ShowTitle prevents setting focus back to the left column after any refresh.)
Fri 9/21 11:32:47.515 Parsing Error: Unexpected "<EOF>" at column 96.

Expression: DebugLog( "Search All: received a search type of '" + SearchMediaType + "', but it isn't valid."
Fri 9/21 11:32:47.526 Parsing Error: Undefined Method org_jdesktop_jdic_desktop_Desktop_browse

Expression: org_jdesktop_jdic_desktop_Desktop_browse(new_java_net_URL("http://www.weather.com/?prod=xoap&par=1010850608"))
Fri 9/21 11:32:47.534 Parsing Error: Undefined Method org_jdesktop_jdic_desktop_Desktop_browse

Expression: org_jdesktop_jdic_desktop_Desktop_browse(new_java_net_URL(LinkURL))
Fri 9/21 11:32:47.543 Parsing Error: No expression entered

Expression:
Fri 9/21 11:32:47.547 Parsing Error: Syntax error

Expression: TVTVError = "Username too long, max 30
Fri 9/21 11:32:47.548 Parsing Error: Syntax error

Expression: =If((ThumbIndexNow == TableRow-1) &&HighlightCurListItem, gColorBasicYellow,gColorBasicWhite)
Fri 9/21 11:32:47.549 Parsing Error: No expression entered

Expression:
Fri 9/21 11:32:47.853 Loading Menu
Fri 9/21 11:32:47.854 Loading Menu File /opt/sagetv/server/menu.xml
Fri 9/21 11:32:47.856 resolving -//NIELM//DTD SAGEMENU XML 1.4//EN -- http://sageplugins.sourceforge.net/n...gemenu_1_3.dtd
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.140 MenuTree Loaded
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.140 Setting root menu widget
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.196 Starting Disk Space Bar Updater Thread: Thread[Thread-48,2,main]
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.196 Updating Disk Space Bar
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.202 Got used/avail video diskspace
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.202 Calculate size of partial recordings
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.204 Found 0 partials using 0 bytes
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.204 Calculate space required for upcomming manual/favourite airings for next 2 days and display
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.227 VideoDiskspaceReqProportion: 0.33969152829552646
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.227 VideoDiskspaceFreeProportion: 0.32819643999831327
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.227 Disk Space Bar Update complete for UI context 0017f2c63ef7
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.238 Error painting child:java.lang.NullPointerException
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.238 java.lang.NullPointerException
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.238 at sage.a8.a(Unknown Source)
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.238 at sage.a8.a(Unknown Source)
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.238 at sage.a8.a(Unknown Source)
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.238 at sage.a8.a(Unknown Source)
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.238 at sage.a8.a(Unknown Source)
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.238 at sage.a8.a(Unknown Source)
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.238 at sage.a8.a(Unknown Source)
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.238 at sage.a8.a(Unknown Source)
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.238 at sage.a8.a(Unknown Source)
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.238 at sage.a8.a(Unknown Source)
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.238 at sage.a8.a(Unknown Source)
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.238 at sage.bh.a(Unknown Source)
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.238 at sage.bo.for(Unknown Source)
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.239 at sage.bo.run(Unknown Source)
Fri 9/21 11:32:48.239 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

[Khristopher]

Originally Posted by nielm

v6.2 (21 Sep 2007) for SageTV 6.2 (Download)

• Use 6.2 themes
• Add 6.2 default menu file
• Fix Online Vids PIN prompt
• Add ability to browse for a menu item icon

As soon as I add this in, I no longer have the "Videos" option under Media Center (which seems to have changed from v6.1). After adding the updated STVi, it changes the "Videos" option back to "Imported Videos" which doesn't work properly.

[Polypro]

Is it picking up the right "menu.xml"? If you left the 6.2 version named as 6.2_menu.xml and still had the 6.1 version as menu.xml, it might be using that. I delete everything and then re-named the 6.2 version menu.xml.

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[Khristopher]

Originally Posted by Polypro

Is it picking up the right "menu.xml"? If you left the 6.2 version named as 6.2_menu.xml and still had the 6.1 version as menu.xml, it might be using that. I delete everything and then re-named the 6.2 version menu.xml.

P

Thank you! This is the first upgrade since I just recently switched to Sage and of course these are the little things that I haven't quite figured out yet.