New scrolling!

[Wheemer]

I love the new scrolling but I was wondering if we could somehow lock the selection bar in the center row while scrolling up and down.

Is that possible? Because I think it would look much nicer.

But this already looks really good and works perfectly on my client.

How do I disable the zoom in of the left menu sections?
What property do I need to set?

[Wheemer]

Also can I disable the new scrolling in the guide only? It's way too slow in the guide for me...

[GKusnick]

Well, since there's a property to enable/disable it, I suppose you could call SetProperty from a BeforeMenuLoad hook to turn it off for that menu, and again from BeforeMenuUnload to turn it back on again when leaving that menu.

[Wheemer]

Would you be able to explain exactly what it is I need to do?

I would really appreciate it.

[GKusnick]

Go to the Program Guide menu and press Ctrl+Shift+F12 to open Studio. If the LiveTVGuide menu isn't expanded, double-click it to expand it one level.

There's already a BeforeMenuLoad hook, so you don't need to add that. Drag an Action widget (wrench symbol, fifth from the top of the toolbar) onto the hook (this will expand the hook) and then rename the Untitled widget as follows:

SetProperty("experimental_smooth_scrolling", false)

Now grab a Hook widget (backwards J symbol at the bottom of the toolbar) and drag it to the LiveTVGuide menu widget. It will appear at the bottom of the widget list for that menu. Right-click it, choose Properties, then choose BeforeMenuUnload from the dropdown list and click OK.

Drag an Action widget to the new hook and rename it like so:

SetProperty("experimental_smooth_scrolling", true)

That should do it. Use File > Save As to save your changes to a new file. (Do not overwrite the default STV.)

Disclaimer: I have not yet installed 4.1.8 myself, and so have not personally tested this change. But based on what Narflex posted about the smooth scrolling property, this should work.

[Wheemer]

Cool... I'm gonna test this when I have time. Thanks for the help!

[Humanzee]

Ok this might sound dumb but how do you enable this smooth scorlling. I installed 4.1.8 yesterday but when I checked the sage.properties file I did not find a "experimental_smooth_scrolling=true" line item.

I added one but it still doesn't do anything. Am I missing anything?

[dbfresh23]

I still don't get exactly what is scrolling. I haven't updated to the newest beta since 17 is working for me. If this is cool enough I'd probably update to the newest if it's worth while. Someone wanna clue me in?

[Wheemer]

All I did was add that line: experimental_smooth_scrolling=true and it started working. Be sure you are using the latest new xml file.

Whenever the arrows are present in a list of items, the new line is scrolled in smoothly.

[dbfresh23]

Ok, just installed it, tried it, disabled it! Smooth scrolling brought my MVP to it's knees. Worked perfectly fine on the pc but brought the MVP to a crawl when going through the menus.