Modifying the Home screen

mcborzu Wrote:<whateverbutton>ActivateWindow(Home)</whateverbutton>

thanks mcborzu, that absolutely worked. Later looking in my remote.xml, I found I already mentioned it in there but in the wrong place (and also completely forgot about it), so it wasn't working. thanks for your help. Cheers!!

What code would I need to alter to remove the eject disc and favourites buttons from the main menu? Also what would I need to do to remove the favourites and suspend buttons from the shutdown menu?

Hello Mike - to remove the buttons from the home screen you would need to edit the Home.xml in the 720p folder. To remove the favourites and suspend buttons from the shutdown menu you would need to edit the DialogButtonMenu.xml in the PAL19x9 folder.

Sorry to sound stupid but I'm new to editing xml files.

What code specifically do I need to change or remove?

Thanks

Mike

Ok the Home one is fairly easy - edit the Home.xml file in the 720p folder.

Find line 1367, where the button controls are, and remove the controls for the two buttons you want lose. They're labelled so you should find them easy enough.

The other one is a bit of a pain and is part of the skin I'm going to redo soon - to be honest it's probably best to wait until I've done that and made the XML a bit more sane and simple - it's a bit of mess at the moment and it wouldn't be very easy to direct you to make changes as it is now. If you can hang on a bit.

Thanks Sharpe, I'll give it a try

No worries. I've just completed re-doing the DialogButtonMenu.xml - you can grab the update from the svn or the mediafire download link. Once you've updated the skin you can edit that file to remove the favourites and suspend buttons fairly easily - just find those labelled controls and delete them.

Sharpe Wrote:To remove the favourites and suspend buttons from the shutdown menu you would need to edit the DialogButtonMenu.xml in the PAL19x9 folder.

Removing the content tags for favourites & exit in DialogButtonMenu.xml works to remove these items from the shutdown menu, but i lose the ability to use arrow keys to navigate & select (as if it has lost focus) once the shutdown menu is brought up .

I have to use the mouse to hover/select an item and then only i can use the arrow keys. Also the modified shutdown menu gets stuck on 'system info' icon when cycling from right to left with the arrow keys; it however works when cycling from left to right.

What am i missing ?

Hi there

Right change the 2nd line from this:


to this:


Also at lines 169, 188 and 206 change this:


to this:


That should do what you want.

wow, i would have never figured out that myself.

Thanks for the support !