All,

I would like to have my 9400 display the actual Page Label that I name the page rather than the Device Label the page belongs to. I tried looking for an example script but couldn't see one. Seems simple enough but I am a newbe to Pronto Script.

To be clear, here is a quick example


Tivo (Device Label)
Tivo - Transport Controls (Page Label)
Tivo - Live (Page Label)
Tivo - Favorites (Page Label)

What I want to do is have the Page Label (i.e. Tivo - Transport Controls) displayed in the Title Bar rather than just the Device Label (i.e. Tivo).

I can't see how to do this without a script and can't figure the script out.

Thanks in advance

Joel

There are two not so obvious things you need to know.

The widget you are interested in is located on the System page along with all of the other system widgets (Date, time, Wi-Fi, battery, setup, and the one you want the activity label. It is not obvious and to see it you need to click on it (can't see it but you know its general area) or display that page in the editor and use F7 until it is highlighted.

These widgets have no properties and they really should. I have requested that of Philips. For example the WiFi widget should have a property called MAC address, one called IP Address, One Called channel, One called Signal Strength. It should have a method called disconnect which breaks the wifi connectioon with the current WAP and one called connect which finds the best radio siganal and connects to it. The other method they need is dns to allow you to set the IP address of the dns resolver (could be your router which then passes it on) that you want to use eliminating IMHO all the external dns issues. The dns issues seem tp be that some WAP's do not pass the DNS address from the router (if it even has it) to the client and in IMHO it should. All the functionality must exist, they just need to make it architecturally visible and available. Enough soapbox speaking!

To set a value into the albel widget do (in ProntoScript)
CF.activity().label=text string;
To return it to the standard (default) value (the name of the activity):
CF.activity().label=null;

Hope that helps

Barry,

Thanks for getting back to me so fast ....

Is there a way I can programatically pick up the Page Label rather than assigning a string? This would allow me to simply adjust the Page Label in the editor and paste a standard pronto script in (versus having to change it for each Page and hardcoding the text).

Thoughts?

Joel

Why not avoid using ProntoScript at all?

Just put a label on each page with the name of the page. Easier to do, but it takes up a little room.

You could also remove the Activity name from the system page. But, I think it is also used to display information messages such "Connecting" and "Command Failed" when using an Extender.

Which also has me wondering. If you change the label in ProntoScript, does this knock out these information messages?

Peter,

If you mean place a widget on each page overlaying that region of the system bar that has the activity label, that would do it. I used to do that before I saw the note in the developers guide on CF.activity().label. It would be nice if the other properties (geometry) were also available. Being a coder at heart I tend to do things in code and using graphics to do what is trivial in code always appeared strange to me.

I suspect as a minimum if you changed the activity label in prontoscript you might alter the extender messages. Not having an extender I can not say.

Peter,

I have carefully crafted the layout and don't want to adjust the pages themselves to accomadate a panel for this info. I would much rather use the Activity region of the system bar.

Back to my question though ....

Is there a way I can programatically pick up the Page Label rather than assigning a string? This would allow me to simply adjust the Page Label in the editor and paste a standard pronto script in (versus having to change it for each Page and hardcoding the text).

Thanks

Joel

What is the difference between "adjust the label in the editor" and "hardcoding the text"? Seems like two descriptions for the same thing.

I think I now understand what you want.

In Prontoscript the label of the current page can be retrieved as CF.page().label and the Prontoscript tag can be retrieved as CF.page().tag.

I know of no way of doing it in the editor.

Peter/Barry,

Okay, so it seems like I could put the following line in the Device Properties.

CF.activity().label=CF.page().label ;

This should change the Activity title to use the label of the page that is being displayed.

Is that correct?

Joel

You would have to do this code in each Page script rather than in the Activity script.

CF.page() will likely return null if a page is not yet visible (is the case upon first entering an Activity).

If you want to reset the text on the label to its original value, assign Javascript null to the label.

This was done in the Developer's Guide in the example where they animated the Activity Name (AKA CF.activity().label) by supplying a scrolling string.

If by device properties you mean the postscript code that will run when the page (page=device) is opened, yes that should do what you want.

But why ask, it is simple enough to try. (;-)

All,

Figured I owed you a test report ....

Not only tried but succeeded.

I renamed each Page to what I wanted displayed and then added the pronto script onto the Page activity.
CF.activity().label=CF.page().label ;

Works great, and now I have a nice title on the Page that is much more informative than simply the Device name.

Joel

Now wasn't that simple?