Computing screen

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This page was written by Pluto and imported with their permission when LinuxMCE branched off in February, 2007. In general any information should apply to LinuxMCE. However, this page should be edited to reflect changes to LinuxMCE and remove old references to Pluto.
== Introduction ==

The Computing screen allows you to use external applications, like Mozilla or MythTV Setup. There are two datagrids on the screen, one with installed programs and one with web bookmarks.

Specifications

For OnScreen Orbiters

Clicking one of the cells of the datagrids will bring you to a new screen, called "Application Desktop" screen. If you click on a web bookmark, firefox will start and it will positionated to fill the whole screen, except "Home" and "Stop" buttons, situated on the bottom of the screen. In this screen, Firefox will receive both keyboard and mouse events and orbiter will ignore keyboard events. If you'll click on home button, the application will remain opened and you'll be able to go back to Computing screen and press "Desktop". Below "Desktop" button a label will indicate the name of the external application opened. To close the external application, you can press "Exit" button. If no external application is running, the label, "Desktop" and "Exit" buttons will be hidden.

For non-OSD Orbiters

Clicking on the cell from the datagrid will bring you to a "application desktop remote" screen, from where you will be able to control the external application running on the OSD Orbiter from the same room. Pressing "stop" button will close the external application.

Note: if xine or other player is also running, while playing with Computing features, xine window shouldn't be visible. Also, if an external application is running and you are going to media and you will play a movie, only xine should be visible and Orbiter.

Implementation details

To encapsulate the logic for Computing screen, a screen handler is being used, overriden in ScreenHandler the method SCREEN_Computing.

SCREEN_Computing method

In here:

- we are registering callback for cbObjectSelected and cbDataGridSelected events.

- then will we decide if this orbiter is a OSD orbiter (in which case we know the status of any external application that might be started) or not (in which case will use 'Get Active Application' and get the info from the right OSD Orbiter);

- if there is an external application running, we'll show "Desktop" and "Exit" buttons and the associated label; if not, these objects will be hidden.

Computing_ObjectSelected callback method

If the user presses "Exit" button, orbiter will send a "kill application" command to App_Server and it goes to main menu.

Computing_DatagridSelected callback method