Menu nuisance

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Irrelevant
2.
3.

What is the expected output? The main menu should be bound to a seperate key so 
that the browsing directories menu doesn't reset when changing display obtions 
for example

What do you see instead?
A very inconvenient way of browsing directories and changing settings on the 
ancient 0.3a :)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
3.2E vs 0.3a

Please provide any additional information below.
PS: Awesome work guys!  You should perhaps design a prompt for entering the 
username or password for SMB shares.  For those n@ughty filez :)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by NestyK...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2009 at 3:51

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Thanks for bringing this up

If I understand correctly you want the menu structure to be like MPlayer DVD 
lib 
edition's right?

Original comment by TimmyKit...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2009 at 3:51

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I'm sorry.  I haven't had a chance to look at Mplayer DVD lib edition.

What I meant to say was.  Lets say a have a directory with episodes that I 
play.  Say
I play an episode and I don't like the aspect ratio.  I would have to go all 
the way
out of the directory back to the MAIN menu to change that.  Or audio delay or
whatever.  If I wanna move onto another episode I would have to navigate all 
the way
back to the directory again.

What I'm proposing is a MENU button which is mapped to a different button then 
the
current one.  One which would take you to the MAIN menu instantly,  however upon
pressing B again you would go back to the original menu which would still be 
showing
the current directory.  Does this explain it a little better now?

Original comment by NestyK...@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2009 at 2:25

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Check it out then It's similar to what your describing

Original comment by TimmyKit...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2009 at 11:25

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I am confused by this thread, NestyKaka.  Is this about locking access by 
password 
to certain files?  Or about a strange menu structure?  If it is the latter, I 
am 
happy to help.  I, too, find the original menu structure pretty ... hm ... 
convoluted shall we say.  I attach two files for you.  A modified input.conf 
which 
assigns + and - to skip through playlists (let's face it, most of us will 
handle the 
volume control thru our TV) and assigns the Wii Home key to a context menu.  
This is 
configured in the attached menu.conf which regroups the original menu items 
such 
that you have instant access to the stuff you need to control your playback.

You should know that these menus are fairly easy to customize.  You will notice 
that 
I have done away with a million SMB shares and made the whole menu structure 
more 
"wife-friendly".

Perhaps you will like it.

Original comment by O...@vonRein.net on 4 Apr 2009 at 2:24

Attachments:

• input.conf
• menu.conf

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You seem to be complaining about our menu layout.  As the post above me says it 
is
easy to configure it yourself.  If you come up with something massively better 
than
ours then please let us know.  However, the way libmenu works there is no "main
menu", everything is one thing - if you go to the main screen then you can't 
jump
back to where you were.

Original comment by agent...@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2009 at 11:20

• Changed state: WontFix

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I apologize if I came across as "complaining".  I was, at the time of my post 
under
the influence of various substances, using the Wii browser looking at this page
posting the post using the wiimote and the virtual keyboard.  Took some time.

This is in no way a complaint.  It is just a feature suggestion.  I haven't had 
the
time to check out your config files yet  O...@vonRein.net, but thanks for the
suggestion.  I will look at those shortly.

I am aware that your menu doesn't have a "Main Menu" however ONCE you play the 
file
the beginning of your menu MENU is the most useful.  Eg. changing video / audio
preferences, aspect ration, codec info and so on.  This will overwrite the 
directory
being browsed and you have have to navigate all the way back to it, to play the 
next
file.

I haven't started changing the MENU configs yet myself, but would like to know 
if it
is possible to separate the menu into 2 separate keys, one that goes to the 
beginning
of your menu, and one that just brings the menu up so you may select the next 
file.
My question I guess would be.  If I do do this, once I press the key bound to 
go to
the beginning of the menu, would this somehow reset the menu in some way so 
that when
I pressed the other bound key, it would still have lost the directory being 
browsed?

Ok.  I'm sorry if I'm wasting your time.  I'll go and ACTUALLY look at the 
configs
myself and see what can be done.  Let you know how I go.

Original comment by NestyK...@gmail.com on 6 Apr 2009 at 11:58

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Ok.  Done it.  I've looked at your version O...@vonRein.net.  It's ok.  One flaw
though.  Pressing B to go back would go through both menus.  Try this config. 
Pressing Home once would go to the menu.  Pressing home again would go back out 
or
back a menu in the menu tree if options are selected, but it will never go back 
to
the directory menu and screw things up.  Either way, pressing the home key 
would kind
of act as a separate menu, which doesn't interfere with the original one.

I've modified the 'z' key below in menu.conf

<keybindings name="default">
    <binding key="UP" cmd="menu up" />
    <binding key="DOWN" cmd="menu down" />
    <binding key="LEFT" cmd="menu left" />
    <binding key="RIGHT" cmd="menu right" />
    <binding key="a" cmd="menu ok" />
    <binding key="b" cmd="menu cancel" />
    <binding key="l" cmd="menu pageup" />
    <binding key="r" cmd="menu pagedown" />
    <binding key="x" cmd="menu hide" />
    <binding key="z" cmd="menu cancel" />
</keybindings>

Original comment by NestyK...@gmail.com on 7 Apr 2009 at 3:22

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Sounds like you found the solution to your problem, NestyKaka.  I am not sure I 
follow your explanations (7).  In my menu, I only use the Home key when 
watching a 
movie.  In brings up all the options I need to adjust the playback (primarily 
subtitles, actually).  When I'm done, I press B and that always takes me back 
to the 
movie.  Never back to the main menu tree.  Personally, I was tempted to bind Z 
to 
"set_menu main".

Anyway, by configuring your own menus, you should now be one the route to 
happiness.

Good luck.

Original comment by O...@vonRein.net on 7 Apr 2009 at 7:38

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You can also change menu-keepdir to 0 in mplayer.conf...

Original comment by agent...@gmail.com on 7 Apr 2009 at 12:58