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General => Users => Topic started by: negus on January 25, 2008, 04:50:41 pm

Title: Changing the standard ui
Post by: negus on January 25, 2008, 04:50:41 pm: hi,
i have build a lmce box and now want to change the ui.
I read in the wiki that this can be done using "designer". But designer is a win prog, has problems with the db.....

I just want to remove the Buttons for "ligthning", "alarm" and "phone" and show the
subelements of the "Media" - menu instead.

can i do this without messing around with desinger and rewriting all the code it generates?

best regards
Title: Re: Changing the standard ui
Post by: tschak909 on January 25, 2008, 06:17:21 pm: *hmm*

No, you can't do that without messing around in Designer, why are you guys whining about this?

-Thom
Title: Re: Changing the standard ui
Post by: negus on January 25, 2008, 06:30:12 pm: because of the wiki.

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Designer is very poorly written, and we do not recommend any developer puts much effort into this code.
It needs be completely re-written from scratch

maybe the designer article http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Designer (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Designer) makes people afraid of using it.

I just thought that changing the menu (delete some points, move a sub menu to top) could be made without using designer because the articles says u have to rewrite the whole code anyway.
So i got to search for a M$ System.

is there any manual / tutorial for it? Rewritting the whole code without help would be a lot of work.
Title: Re: Changing the standard ui
Post by: xephyrus on January 25, 2008, 08:35:56 pm: Can Designer be run with Wine? Negus, that might be worth trying.

Comments like, "why are you guys whining about this?" are derogatory and unnecessary.

. Topher
Title: Re: Changing the standard ui
Post by: tschak909 on January 25, 2008, 09:29:06 pm: No, it cannot be run with wine, as it requires Microsoft.ODBC .net 1.1 components, which mean it doesn't run correctly under Mono, either.

-Thom
Title: Re: Changing the standard ui
Post by: negus on January 25, 2008, 10:42:26 pm: y i tried with mono. i opens a screen and after 2sec recognizes that no odbc classes are present.
In the worst case i will run it in vmware. shoudl be no problem.

a answer to my question about manual/How-To/Tutorial would be more importend.
The wiki article worried me a little bit. But i think changing the existing gui should be done easy
no matter how bad Designer is

ty
Title: Re: Changing the standard ui
Post by: tschak909 on January 25, 2008, 11:44:03 pm: I have posted the HADesigner manual, here:

http://www.localeconcept.com/pub/HADesigner/HADesigner_user_manual.pdf (http://www.localeconcept.com/pub/HADesigner/HADesigner_user_manual.pdf)

This is a copy of the manual that Pluto had provided.

-Thom
Title: Re: Changing the standard ui
Post by: 1audio on January 26, 2008, 07:27:05 am: Adding and removing buttons doesn't require HA Designer. Removing standard buttons (except the base row) is done through the Web Panel - Scenarios. Just uncheck the one you don't want. There is an add scenario button as well but I have not tried it.
Title: Re: Changing the standard ui
Post by: tschak909 on January 26, 2008, 07:52:36 am: he is referring to removing the base buttons as well.

-Thom
Title: Re: Changing the standard ui
Post by: negus on January 26, 2008, 01:54:09 pm: Thanks for the manual.

And also thanks for the hint with adding/removing buttons with the Webadmin page. Redefining there names and adding the buttons i want to the wright base buttons would be a easy "workaround" to recreating the whole gui with HA Designer.

thx guys.
Title: Re: Changing the standard ui
Post by: negus on February 05, 2008, 09:17:46 pm: hi again guys. finally i have my media center again and are now building my menu.
Can i change the name of the baseline buttons with the web interface?