Theming - Changing Home Screen Behaviour

I don’t know if I can do this so just wanted to ask.

Is it possible to change the behaviour of the home screen so rather than moving left and right to choose the next menu option we can move up and down?

Also, is it possible to have a moving frame on the home screen?

Any themes I’ve played about with have changed the main background similar to what Black Mamba does so I haven’t played with other methods.

Cheers

You should try searching for your inquiry’s on the themes forum. 

http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Hub-Themes/bd-p/hub_themes

Yeah that’d help.

Are you able to move this or will I just post again?

Dooker wrote:

Is it possible to change the behavior of the home screen so rather than moving left and right to choose the next menu option we can move up and down?

I have tried about a Year or so ago … And have also spoken with another another Theme creator who was attempting the same thing.

No Success

Technical: the rv_home.xml controls the HUB/SMP Home Screen.

looking inside the Legacy Theme …

it contains Home Screeen XML code for Gen1 Devices (which are Up’n’Down Scrolling)

home.xml & villa_home.xml 

Now, if you compare all 3 xml’s… rv_home.xml / home.xml / villa_home.xml

There are different labels,tags,widgets,references etc etc  between all 3

I tried all different combinations of code … but suffered crash after crash of my Live Hub

You are welcome to have a “go” … here are the files

http://www.mediafire.com/?sqsz1b5200f0172

When you “Crash” your device (doing home screen experimentation … follow this info to recover)

(my 1st ever post on the forum)  :smiley:

http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Hub-Themes/Be-Carefull-Editing-Home-XML-S/td-p/146450

Edit: this is how to recover from Live Hub Crash … SMP may be different, because i don’t own one.

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Thanks Joey. I’ve downloaded your files, and the complete GPL Code too, so I’ll have a wee play and see what I can break  :)