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Topic: | MX-810/MX-880 Custom Icons Tutorial This thread has 259 replies. Displaying posts 166 through 180. |
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OP | Post 166 made on Wednesday January 28, 2009 at 15:50 |
dsp81 Advanced Member |
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On January 25, 2009 at 19:00, ramccra said...
I love the icons you used for lights...would you mind sending them to me please? [email protected]Thanks! You will need to contact Jub directly for those he has posted. Mine are a little different.
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Post 167 made on Tuesday September 29, 2009 at 03:27 |
TheChairman Lurking Member |
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Ressurecting an old thread here, but I had a quick question about this: Is it possible to specify what IR output on the MRF the (customized) favorites pages send to?
I have 2 identical DVRs in my system, so if I just blast the IR command over all of ports it will cause unwanted results.
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Post 168 made on Tuesday September 29, 2009 at 10:13 |
Johnny Canuck Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | January 2003 292 |
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Yes, it is. When you create the favourties page, you select the device it is supposed to code to. You map your MRF-260 to that device and you're fine.
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Post 169 made on Thursday October 1, 2009 at 04:54 |
TheChairman Lurking Member |
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On September 29, 2009 at 10:13, Johnny Canuck said...
Yes, it is. When you create the favourties page, you select the device it is supposed to code to. You map your MRF-260 to that device and you're fine. Thanks, I should have been a little more clear in my question. As it works now, the hard buttons are mapped to the appropriate device and only emit from the assigned IR ports. However, the SOFT buttons (screen) aren't device specific and are emitting from all ports. To refresh your memory, these are the buttons that were programmed in the Browser from the donor file (actually the same wzr file I was working on, saved). Any ideas?
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Post 170 made on Thursday October 1, 2009 at 11:17 |
Johnny Canuck Long Time Member |
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They're supposed to be device specific. I don't have the Wizard in front of me, so I can't walk through it, but if I recall, when you edit the "favorites" the second screen gives you a drop down box of devices to choose from.
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Post 171 made on Saturday October 24, 2009 at 17:54 |
str3ss Lurking Member |
Joined: Posts: | November 2006 6 |
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Just getting on the MX-810 train after years of faithful service from an MX-600.
Regarding customization, wouldn't it be possible to create an entire new "theme" just by duplicating an entire directory from \MX-810 ProWizard\swffile\Graphics
Is URC working on updates for the 810 editor software to allow more end-user customization. Being a flash-based UI,(w/embedded Flash/JAVA on device?) it seems there's a lot more room to make custom direct.
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Post 172 made on Saturday October 24, 2009 at 21:15 |
Darnitol Universal Remote Control Inc. |
Joined: Posts: | June 1999 2,070 |
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The mx-810 doesn't run Flash or Java. Its UI is part of its OS, which was custom designed for this one remote.
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Post 173 made on Wednesday October 28, 2009 at 16:04 |
BigAudio Lurking Member |
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So, In the latest CCP, when I go look at the images, they are all .VFD files. Each Device is ColFile.VFD . When I google VFD, it says its a Virtual Floppy Disk. So, I gather that it is zipped together to prevent us from modifying the files. I only see the .PNG files on the stand alone editor, but the remotes you get today dont like syncing to that editor. Any Work Arounds?
Thanks.
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Post 174 made on Wednesday October 28, 2009 at 16:35 |
Darnitol Universal Remote Control Inc. |
Joined: Posts: | June 1999 2,070 |
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On October 28, 2009 at 16:04, BigAudio said...
So, I gather that it is zipped together to prevent us from modifying the files. Just so you know: the VFD files are not there to prevent you from modifying things. In fact, we're more than happy to have you modify the available graphics. The change was made in CCP because of the huge number of graphics files in that program. Every time a drive has to write a file, it has to write the header, then go write the file. When you're dealing with one file, it takes a fraction of a second. When it's thousands of tiny graphics files, the process can be very time consuming. And on slower drives (such as exist on many laptops), that huge collection of many files makes opening th graphics library agonizingly slow. So there you have it: the engineers did it for your benefit. Since over 90% of people don't ever modify these files, the extra difficulty in adding graphics to the folders was considered worth it. It SHOULD be possible to open a VFD file, modify it, then recreate the file, but I haven't tried to do it myself. Best regards, Dale
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Post 175 made on Sunday November 1, 2009 at 08:50 |
str3ss Lurking Member |
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Thanks for the response, Dale... I was making a leap of tech because of the Flash powered wizard, or at least because of all the SWF files the wizard is calling to.
Regarding my other comment, why isn't it possible to duplicate an entire directory from \MX-810 ProWizard\swffile\Graphics?
Best,
Marc
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OP | Post 176 made on Sunday November 1, 2009 at 15:00 |
dsp81 Advanced Member |
Joined: Posts: | October 2007 782 |
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On November 1, 2009 at 08:50, str3ss said...
Regarding my other comment, why isn't it possible to duplicate an entire directory from \MX-810 ProWizard\swffile\Graphics? You have to over-write one of the existing directories. But you can over-write a complete directory. I was never able to locate the file that holds the configurations.
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Post 177 made on Monday November 2, 2009 at 09:08 |
Darnitol Universal Remote Control Inc. |
Joined: Posts: | June 1999 2,070 |
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Marc:
The set of directories is hard coded into the editor. You can duplicate an existing directory as a backup, but the editor won't currently see it.
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Post 178 made on Thursday November 12, 2009 at 14:51 |
MacDude Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | April 2003 48 |
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Will there be an update to the editor software for this remote? The original packaging had more options for custom images and more complicated variable editing on the back of the box. Is there hope for this in the future??
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Post 179 made on Saturday November 14, 2009 at 14:49 |
What format are these VFD files exactly? I tried to replace the extension with .zip but that didn't work. On October 28, 2009 at 16:35, Darnitol said...
Just so you know: the VFD files are not there to prevent you from modifying things. In fact, we're more than happy to have you modify the available graphics. The change was made in CCP because of the huge number of graphics files in that program. Every time a drive has to write a file, it has to write the header, then go write the file. When you're dealing with one file, it takes a fraction of a second. When it's thousands of tiny graphics files, the process can be very time consuming. And on slower drives (such as exist on many laptops), that huge collection of many files makes opening th graphics library agonizingly slow.
So there you have it: the engineers did it for your benefit. Since over 90% of people don't ever modify these files, the extra difficulty in adding graphics to the folders was considered worth it. It SHOULD be possible to open a VFD file, modify it, then recreate the file, but I haven't tried to do it myself.
Best regards, Dale
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OP | Post 180 made on Saturday November 14, 2009 at 14:54 |
dsp81 Advanced Member |
Joined: Posts: | October 2007 782 |
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On November 14, 2009 at 14:49, DaveWI said...
What format are these VFD files exactly? I tried to replace the extension with .zip but that didn't work. It's not working for me in Windows 7, but did in Vista.
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