Mapping an Icon to Video Folder

[cchance]

Map Videos submenu directly to /Folders

Basically all my wife ever uses now that we got my NAS and the xmounts working is --videos -- local drives -- folders and its a bunch of clicks and annoying really.... with media center thing on to see the nas xmounts

is their a way or a plugin i can use that will remap /videos to the /folders

that way we wont have to deal with scrolling past all movies etc down to folders and navigating so deep?

Even if not remapping /videos maybe mapping a new top level button to the Folders directory (though not as elegant i suppose as having 2 menu items on top for videos)

If so i'd really be greatful

Thanks

[recliq]

[Gigaherx]

Looking at your plugin:



Are you suggesting to replace Menu.Top["$$Video"]["$$Local Drives"] with Menu.Top["$$Video"] 7 times or at one specific place.

Other questions:
the way it is currently it opens USB2 folder - my films (on USB2) are one level deeper, so would love to adjust the link within the folder (OK - just seen that: http://forum.wdlxtv.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=954&hilit=MediaFolder&start=10#p7520 ... but possible to get behind the "USB2"?)
And then: this script brings the same "movie" icon (and short cut) up for music and photos,too - i have those on a NAS (at different places). Any chance you can help me adjusting the script to reflect that.

Thank you

[recliq]

[Gigaherx]

Thanx relicq

will play around tonight, but leaving my "baby" for business trip tomorrow

I have seen your previous comment on linking to folders after posting, so that was an edit. My thought was that within the main "standard" menue you can choose which USB drive before entering the folder structure, with the script I see the USB drive with in the folder menu. Again: if not possible - this is certainly acceptable. I will also look if (in my case for music / photos) there are some tricks when mounting that.

Really like the option shown to use own image - thanx for showing me that

[Gigaherx]

Getting there:
- managed to get behind the USB2 when showing folders,
- moved Shoutcast & YouTube on Menu Lvl.1
- replaced video icon with "my own"

When I started playing around with mounting NAS drives (to achieve something similar for Photos/Music on NAS) I realized that network shares are not working anymore - you already supporting me on this in a different thread. So I need to sort that out before continuing here.

[Markster]

I have a similar request that I hope somone can help with. I want to keep the Video menu logic intact, but move it away from being the default choice.

Instead, I want the default choice to be my own menu. I know that due to DMAOSD hard-coding, you can't change the default away from the $$Video menu.

So, what I want to do is:

1. Create a new menu
2. Copy the $$Video menu and all its children to the new menu (including images, etc.)
3. Rename the existing $$Video to "look" like my own menu, including images, etc.

I wrote the following code to do this and the only problem is that both menu's are acting the same now. The old menu acts\looks like a new menu which is good, but the new menu does not act like the "Old" $$Video menu. It is behaving like they are sharing the same handler?


Here is the code snippet:

// Lets create a new menu item - this will be renamed to look like the current Video menu
var topMenu = new Menu("Movies", "$$Video", "image/home_all_plus_icon_n.png", "image/home_all_plus_icon_f.png", true);
Menu.Top.addChild(topMenu);
Menu.Top.Movies.handler = function(){
Menu.Top["$$Video"].handler(); // This should define the Movie Handler to point to the same function as the Vide Handler does (default one) - i.e. copied\not shared
};
Menu.Top.Movies.image = Menu.Top["$$Video"].image
Menu.Top.Movies.focusedImage = Menu.Top["$$Video"].focusedImage

// Change existing Video menu to look\behave like our new one
Menu.Top["$$Video"].handler = function(){
Menu.Top["$$Video"]["$$Local Drives"]["$$Folders"].handler() // This should change the Video Handler to now be something new
};
Menu.Top["$$Video"].title = "MovieSheets+";
Menu.Top["$$Video"].image = "image/home_all_plus_icon_n.png";
Menu.Top["$$Video"].focusedImage = "image/home_all_plus_icon_f.png";

[b1scu1t]

In follow up to this question, is it possible for me to Map a folder to a Samba Share? For instance TV points to -> user@pw://192.168.1.35/TV

Thanks,
b1scu1t

[kiefermat]

[Markster]

Kiefermat, thanks for taking the time to respond. Unfortunately I don't see a specific example in your response to my key question? What I want to do is map the existing Video menu directly to the folders handler. This is easy enough to do and it works fine.

The hard part is how do I create a NEW menu option that mimics the "old Video" handler menu flow. That way I can offer the old option if you want to use it, but also offer the faster "direct to folder" option.

Example Menu:

- MovieSheets+ icon: is really the old Video option with my own icon. It gets mapped directly to the folder (see my latest video under MovieSheets+ for an example)
- Video icon - is really a new menu option that mimics all of the original Video menu flow