Has anybody done more interesting "Please wait screen" more that 10 steps as most projector take at least 1 minute before they will except another command.. and i still want it to show that somthing is going on.

Can the default transmit icon be changed on the TSU range?

One could change the background image, perhaps giving a countdown or a slide show.

Personally, I do not like those please wait screens. When I first saw the TSU9600, the demo program threw up those screens and I was ready abandon the Pronto. Fortunately, I looked into things a little deeper and found that they were merely part of the demo program, not an intrinsic TSU characteristic.

I don't think that the user needs to be entertained while the projector cools. If the equipment requires long command sequences, I recommand using an RF option. Even with the on screen entertainment, one cannot assume that the user will keep the remote pointed in the correct direction long enough for all of the IR commands to be emitted.

With some ProntoScript, you could fetch the weather or an RSS feed while waiting.

Its more for the warm up on a projector , and i always recomend RF over IR

My main menu is a picture of our home theatre made in Sketchup, if you press the tv screen for example, a picture comes sliding in on the tv screen (40 macros), which take 15 seconds.

Hi

I use some Please wait screen's.
That's to tell the user that something is going on so they don't push and push and push.......

When using projector the cinema countdown is always a nice feature. Find an animated GIF online and embed it on your pronto using your time

I just do a black screen, with please wait.

Not for a button that takes a second or less, but always for actions that take more than a few seconds.

I´m using makroprogramming with progress bars displayed.
Correct time delay and many pictures are giving a fluend impression.

Here's a simple one (I don't have a server, but here is the code and the description):

The timer is set to the value you want in the activity script of a clock activity (mine is set to 25 to allow my satellite receiver/recorder to startup (a Topfield HDPVR type with 500 GB disc).

The Ball (I used a chrome button) is situated at 240, 270,  size 160 x 160.
The Pebble (I used a transparent chrome button) is situated at 300 115, size 40x40.
I've put a circle bmp 1222 (images buttonfields) on which ball & pebble "move" synchronically from left to right in the background. The centers of Ball and Circle are on positioned on the circle.

I use a modern blue bmp5813 button for the countdown display. Font la Cartoonerie 72.
I centered it in the enlarged bmp1222.

It's not spectacular, it was just an exercise in moving pictures around the screen. I also had a bouncing ball (with a dampening formula, but unfortunately I lost it). Also a boring after a while... I'm thinking of replacing the timer by the weather module, with a countdown timer in the title.

Rusty

if (timer==0) {
widget("TIMER").executeActions();}  // jumps to the TV channels page
widget("TIMER").label=timer;
widget("BALL").left=170;
widget("BALL").top=240;
widget("PEBBLE").left=350;
widget("PEBBLE").top=130;

if (timer%2==1) {
widget("BALL").executeActions();  // a sound
widget("BALL").left=240;
widget("BALL").top=270;
widget("PEBBLE").left=300;
widget("PEBBLE").top=115;}

if(timer%4==0) {
widget("BALL").left=310;
widget("BALL").top=240;
widget("PEBBLE").left=250;
widget("PEBBLE").top=130;}

timer--;

Looked but could not figure out how.. how do you embed a GIF image into a pronto pro? Tried to make a panel using an animated .gif but it would not let me...

You cannot use animated gif. If you have a gif you want to use, then you must use a tool such as IrfanView to extract each frame to a .jpg/.png/.bmp image and then use Prontoscript to change images on a panel widget based on some defined algorithm.