On December 11, 2006 at 11:28, jkinsd said...
The reason I am needing to use this is for several components
that are the same in my system. I have a DVD stack of
4 Denons and depending on the DVD I initially choose I
want the "Play" button to alias to the Device that outputs
to the corresponding IR line output on my RF hub.
If I understand your recommendations correctly, I will
end up with three "nested" buttons on a hidden page to
systematically "walk a tree" of variables. My worst case
scenario being that I have selected DVD_4 in the stack
and my aliasing drills me down to my last variable controlled
button which is aliased on state 1 to my fourth dvd device.
If for example the button leads me to the last nested
button and the state of that variable is "0" I need to
have a prompt for the user to go back and select a DVD
player right?
Please let me know if I understand it correctly. I appreciate
all the help and quick response!
It sounded as though you got it. That is until you said "prompts the user to go back". this all should be transparent to the user. The remote can track what device to execute play on by tracking a variable for what device you powered up or setup for use in that macro.
If you want the user to choose you could have a page that gives the user a choice. Like a page that comes up automatically as part of a setup macro. That page asks which DVD would you like to use DVD1, 2, 3, 4 then that selected DVD button would fire a macro to setup the selected device for use and dump the user to the page he needs for operating that task or device.
Hope that helps a little
PS: You have no contact information in you profile or I would send you an example. Go to my profile and get my E-mail address and send me a way to contact you so I can send an example of what I am talking about.
