Enigma2 MainmenuConf Plugin

pcd

Hi Pcd,

How busy are you nowadays. I was just looking around the net for a horizontal menu for enigma2 for a future plugin and I remembered this old one you did a few years ago. If you install blue hd skin first and then your plugin, it still seems to stand the test of time without too many crashes (Pressing numbers crash it).

I have had a good look around the source code of this plugin and I get most of what it's doing, but wondered if you fancied a new challenge of writing a new menu component instead of overwriting the original menu.py screen.

I am going to attempt to do something like this myself. But as you seem more skilled than me in this department I thought I would ask you first.

I am thinking something along these lines. These are just ideas off the top of my head. Just thinking out loud.

Vertical Menu (with selected element text and selectionPixmap enlarged)
<screen name="vertical-menu" ...

<widget name="vertical-menu" .... selectedTextScale="2" vMenuSelectionSize="200,100" vMenuSelectionPixmap="graphic.png" itemHeight="80"

vMenuSelectionPixmap, finds the current coordinates of current selection, then float the new pixmap and label over the top. (center aligned). Or something like that.

Elements are spaced out based on itemheight and cut off accordingly like current menu

a bit like the current sky q menu style.

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Horizontal menu (with selected element text and selectionPixmap enlarged)

<screen name="horizontal-menu" ...

<widget name="horizontal-menu" selectedTextScale="2" numberOfItems="5" hMenuSelectionSize="200,100" hMenuSelectionPixmap="graphic.png" itemHeight="80"

menu items are spaced out based on the number of items.

Grid Menu (with selected element text and selectionPixmap enlarged)

<screen name="grid-menu" ...

<widget name="grid-menu" selectedTextScale="2" numberOfColumns="5" gMenuSelectionSize="200,100" gMenuSelectionPixmap="graphic.png" itemHeight="80"

Pure2 has Horizontal menus I'm not sure if that would help

Hi pcd

OpenSpa have like this...

I installed pure2 and had a look at their code. It uses a custom menu.py screen. Then the modules to do the different menu styles are hidden away in a .so file.

So thats no use for a nosey.

I think most examples I have seen of this seem to be very similar coded to your version anyway.

As i said earlier I was hoping to be able to do a custom component for skins without overriding the original menu.py

i.e the component would take the current menu titles, and layout them out depending on the option chosen in the skin code. Like your plugin does but not relying on a plugin.

I looked into this briefly but didn't get very far with it.

By grid, I mean like you get in panel plugins.

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