Vista: Customising the VMC Start Menu

[baturbo]

Resource Tuner does not seem to work for Vista x64. Does any one know of another app that will.

[Advent]

Has anyone worked out where the titles and images for the buttons are stored?

If you have the following (stealing from Dazama's post above):

 
<home:QuickLink Icon="SM.TV.LiveTV" Title="#SM.TV.LiveTV" ViewTemplate="QuickLinkView" AppId="[TV]" EntryPointId="[TVLiveTVEP]" Priority="99"/>

then where are SM.TV.LiveTV and #SM.TV.LiveTV? I presume they're resources stored somewhere, but where? .NET or win32 resources? Or neither? Stuff like this is critical for creating a usable app for editing these things...

[aanda6]

Advent,

don'y know where they are stored but you can use mediacentrefx to change buttons. I have been trying to adjust mine.

[Dazama]

Originally Posted by Advent

Has anyone worked out where the titles and images for the buttons are stored?

open ehres.dll and instead of viewing the HTML folder have a look through the other folders - i found images for nearly everything in one of the folders - cant remember which one it was though.

I also found something else of interest (cant remember where) and that was OEM maximum strips which was set to 2 - not sure, but this may mean you can have more than the default 2 additional strips. I'll have to find that again - but if you do a search from the top of the HTML folder you may be able to find it.

Regards
Daz

[dgaust]

The default OEM strips is in the StartMenu.xml file. I changed it to three and then enabled 3 custom strips but only two showed up.

[lillgreen]

Originally Posted by Dazama

open ehres.dll and instead of viewing the HTML folder have a look through the other folders - i found images for nearly everything in one of the folders - cant remember which one it was though.

I also found something else of interest (cant remember where) and that was OEM maximum strips which was set to 2 - not sure, but this may mean you can have more than the default 2 additional strips. I'll have to find that again - but if you do a search from the top of the HTML folder you may be able to find it.

Regards
Daz

The folder with the pictures is Icon entry

Cheers

[Advent]

Originally Posted by Dazama

open ehres.dll and instead of viewing the HTML folder have a look through the other folders - i found images for nearly everything in one of the folders - cant remember which one it was though.

I also found something else of interest (cant remember where) and that was OEM maximum strips which was set to 2 - not sure, but this may mean you can have more than the default 2 additional strips. I'll have to find that again - but if you do a search from the top of the HTML folder you may be able to find it.

Regards
Daz

Ok, I worked it out (with a lot of help from .NET Reflector ) - SM.TV.LiveTV refers to an element in the mcml resource Images.mcml which is stored as an HTML resource in Microsoft.MediaCenter.Shell.dll. This element then refers back to the images that you're talking about in ehres.dll. Thanks for putting me on the right path with this

That max OEM strips thing sure is interesting too, although what dgaust says isn't promising. I'll try it out myself when I get a chance.

[lillgreen]

Whilst i try and get my head around all this it would be good if we could post our code and a little about what changes have been done to the menu so that the lesser smarties like myself can have a try of the newer menus whilst getting to know the program.

[logifuse]

Originally Posted by lillgreen

Whilst i try and get my head around all this it would be good if we could post our code and a little about what changes have been done to the menu so that the lesser smarties like myself can have a try of the newer menus whilst getting to know the program.

Think of it this way:

All individual items are wrapped in <>.
The items to edit, move or remove have a priority figure right before the last >.
Changing the priority (0 is the highest priority) moves items within their context (if it's a stat menu category it moves on the start menu, if it's an item within a category it moves within that category).

Justin

[Dazama]

Originally Posted by lillgreen

The folder with the pictures is Icon entry

Cheers

I've just had a look and that's the icon's for documents that are opened in VMC and the icons that are displayed on the task bar.

The RC Data folder contains the start menu images. They begin with STARTMENU.QUICKLINK. etc etc

Regards
Daz

[Dazama]

It's a bit of a bugger about the OEM 2 strips - i'll have a look to see if there is anything else regarding strips but before that i want to figure why when the videos is on the tv & movies strip it backs out to the pictures strip.... to be continued lol

<Mcml xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2006/mcml" xmlns:home ="assembly://ehshell/MediaCenter.Home">
<home:StartMenuData Name="StartMenuApplications" MaxOEMStrips="2">
<Applications>
<home:PicturesApp Uri="SM.Pictures.xml" Priority="4"/>
<home:MusicApp Uri="SM.Music.xml" Priority="3"/>
<home:NowPlayingApp Priority="0"/>
<home:TVApp Uri="SM.TV.xml" Priority="1"/>
<home:MSOApp MaxQuickLinks="5" Priority="2"/>
<home:SportsApp Uri="SM.Sports.xml" Priority="5"/>
<home:OEMPlaceholder Index="0" MaxQuickLinks="5" Priority="100"/>
<home:SpotlightApp Uri="SM.Spotlight.xml" Priority="7"/>
<home:OEMPlaceholder Index="1" MaxQuickLinks="5" Priority="100"/>
<home:ActivitiesApp Uri="SM.Activities.xml" Priority="5"/>
</Applications>
</home:StartMenuData>
</Mcml>

Above is the original code for "STARTMENU.XML" and the OEM 2 strips - i wonder if changing MaxOEMStrips="2" to MaxOEMStrips="3" and adding the following line will make any difference.

<home:OEMPlaceholder Index="2" MaxQuickLinks="5" Priority="100"/>

There are already two of these OEM placeholders in the original code so adding a 3rd may fix the problem that dgaust was having.....

Just a thought
Daz

[bluebucket]

You can rename the menu and tile items by editing the ehres.dll.mui in the %SYSTEMROOT%\ehome\<language> folder. The names are defined in the String node and you'll want to look at the buttom ones.