Changing the standard ui

[negus]

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

[tschak909]

*hmm*

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

-Thom

[negus]

because of the wiki.

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 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.

[xephyrus]

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

[tschak909]

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

[negus]

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

[tschak909]

I have posted the HADesigner manual, here:

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

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

-Thom

[1audio]

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.

[tschak909]

he is referring to removing the base buttons as well.

-Thom

[negus]

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.

[negus]

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?