SpringboardScreen button navigation

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Hi

I have SpringboardScreen with three button and poster of video
Buttons are like
Button Index : Title
0 : Preview for 2 minutes
1 : Subscribe to channel
2 : Back
By default “Preview for 2 minutes” button is selected
is it possible: after watching the 2 minute preview (control get back to springboard screen ), “Subscribe to channel” button should be focused/selected.

Thanks
Sunil

2

I don’t know if you can do that easily on an roSpringboardScreen. There is a SetDefaultMenuItem function that allows you to select which button to highlight on an roParagraphScreen, but it doesn’t seem to be implemented in roSpringboardScreen.

There is a discussion in http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=45203&p=307134#p307053 of how to do this using the ECP.

3

You should be able to remove the ‘back’ selection since the user can press UP on any remote to do the same thing.

4

You could also make the subscribe button the first button.

5

Or, when the user returns to the springboard screen after watching the preview, you could redisplay the buttons so you have:

0: Subscribe to channel
1: Watch 2 minute preview again

Then the Subscribe button will be highlighted when they return back to the springboard screen.

EDIT: TheEndless beat me to it.

6

Thank you very much

I done it using External Control Protocol

Get the IP Address of Roku Device


Function GetRokuLocalIP() As String

    print "---GetRokuLocalIP---"

    For Each key in m.ips

        ipAddress = m.ips[key]

        if ipAddress <> invalid and ipAddress.len() > 0 then

            return ipAddress

        end if

    Next

    Return ""

End Function
 ip  = GetRokuLocalIP()
ecp_url = "http://" + ip + ":8060/keypress/Down"
print "ecp_url " ; ecp_url
req = CreateObject("roUrlTransfer")
request.SetUrl(ecp_url)
request.PostFromString("")

Sunil