Bugzilla – Bug 9101
Possibility to have multiline rows without icon
Last modified: 2008-12-15 12:06:02 UTC
It would be great if there was a menuStyle value which could be used to create a menu on the Controller with multiline items without the icon. At the moment I could use the menuStyle=album but that results in that an icon is shown to the left of each menu item text, so I can't use the whole screen width for text information.
Created attachment 3774 [details] DefaultSkinApplet with new 'multiline' style Erland, if you can scp this DefaultSkinApplet to your SBC at the path /usr/share/jive/applets/DefaultSkin/DefaultSkinApplet.lua, then reboot your SBC. Then have your plugin send a menu with menuStyle 'multiline' and let me know if it works as you'd like it to.
Ben: is this a 7.2 bug?
(In reply to comment #1) > Erland, if you can scp this DefaultSkinApplet to your SBC at the path > /usr/share/jive/applets/DefaultSkin/DefaultSkinApplet.lua, then reboot your > SBC. Then have your plugin send a menu with menuStyle 'multiline' and let me > know if it works as you'd like it to. > It doesn't work correctly, at least not in my setup. If I have menuStyle='album' everything looks correct besides that the items have the icon on the left side. If I use menuStyle='multiline' I get the smaller font, so the screen is able to contain 12 lines of text, which is correct. However, each item still seems to only be one text row high so the second and third text row of each item is overlayed on top of the next item. So the screen contains 12 items instead of the expected 4 items. Another difference compared to the album style is that with the album style the top line is written with a bold font but with the multiline style all lines seems to be with the same font. To be able to separate the items a bit better, I think it would be nice if multiline also presented the top line of each item with a bold font.
It could be thrown into 7.2 with zero risk, but no it's not essential for 7.2. Would like to hear feedback from Erland as to whether this new style lays out the way he'd hoped.
whoops, sorry. Was responding to Dean's comment before I saw that Erland had also replied. Erland, I'll take a look at what you describe.
multiline style added in 7.3 r3384 note that if you send an icon with an item in the multiline style the icon will render on the screen in an odd location. Since the intent of this style is to provide a tall menu style without an icon, the correct workaround is to never send an icon when using this style.
This bug has been fixed in the 7.3.0 release version of SqueezeCenter! Please download the new version from http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html if you haven't already. If you are still experiencing this problem, feel free to reopen the bug with your new comments and we'll have another look.