Create a menu hierarchy using basic home menu generator (1 Viewer)

[prei]

Newbie here, I have searched the forum, read wiki's but I can't figure out how to create a Top Level Basic Home menu item as follows:

I want to create a top level menu item next to TV called 'Web TV'
When I drill down, I will see menu items for
--Online Videos
--NetFlix
--Hulu (I got this working using multishortcut)

I can get all these working on the top level menu, but I don't know how to move them to a sub menu, with 'Web TV' as the top level menu. I don;t know how to generate the top 'Web TV' Menu

I have...
-- created my own .XML file in the skins directory, and can get them to show up in the menueditor
-- these custom .XML file works for the multi shortcut Hulu plugin (found the answer in another thread)

I just don't know what to put into the .XML file for 'Web TV'
Or should I use another item as my 'Web TV' and not use an XML file for it?

Thanks in advance. Mediaportal and StreamedMP are wonderful. Thanks everyone.

 

[ltfearme]

Create a new Menu Item, lets say OnlineVideos (just pick it from the list in the editor) as thats probably the most popular Online plugin. You basically want your most popular plugin you use accessible from the Root Menu item, now give it a different name:

WEBVIDEOS->WEB TV

1. Add Menu Item >>
2. Select this new item on the right hand side of 'Items Selected'.
3. Click on the 'Edit/Add Submenu' button.
4. Click on Display XML Filenames.
5. Drag Drop the plugins you want in the submenu e.g. HULU, NetFlix, OnlineVidos etc
6. Save & Close
7. Generate

 

[prei]

Thanks a bunch, it's working.

Funny thing, believe it or not, I actually did that yesterday, and it was working, I just didn't know it.

Basically, I didn't see the "little arrow" that gets generated.

When I clicked it, it launched the "top level app" I expected it to drill down into the sub menu. I didn't know to use the arrow key to bring up the sub menu. I was trying 'enter'

Any way, it does beg the question, is it currently possible (no enhancment request) to bring up sub menus on 'enter' versus arrows? Basically, the top level menu has no action except to bring up sub menus. Or is that just 'silly talk'?

Thanks Again ,
Pete

 

[ltfearme]

The skin can't react to an onclick event except for loading another window which it does when loading a plugin window...we could do something but it would involve overriding it in our skin plugin. Probably not something we will do unless a few people express interest in it.

 

[prei]

It's working great as is, thanks for the help!