Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:06 AM
Inspecting the layout files of the pczapper in search of the white vertical line in the frontpage (I changed it to a twig as you may have noticed in the screenshot below, but needed to adjust the position) I found another way to tweak the frontpage.
The basic limitation to the PCZapper, we all been told in the
forum, is that you cannot change the frontpage and especially not the right side of it, the web-based part.
Well, I got news for you: you can do it!
It comes down to editing pbOEM.xml in the pczapper/program directory.
In the file pbOEM.xml are two things; the layout and the links.
Here's a tad of pbOEM.xml source-code:
<Button>
<TabIndex>0</TabIndex>
<Link>pbd://100003</Link>
<ImageUnfocused>
<File>mijnfotos_back.png</File>
<XPosition>3</XPosition>
<YPosition>100</YPosition>
</ImageUnfocused>
<ImageFocused>
<File>mijnfotos_hover.png</File>
<XPosition>3</XPosition>
<YPosition>100</YPosition>
</ImageFocused>
<ButtonUp>8</ButtonUp>
<ButtonDown>2</ButtonDown>
<Shortcut>1</Shortcut>
</Button>
If I do a search in pbConfig.xml, I find the number 100003 (highlighted in link tag) being the folderItemID of my pictures! PbConfig being the file that contains all content, also the content I added myself, I can reroute the button command to another container, even one I created myself.
Second, being able to create my own layout, it must be possible to put more items in the frontpage than there are now. Several things to be noted, however:
-Xposition and Yposition of both the unfocused and the focused image
-a unique tab-index
-the buttonup, down, left and right assignments (these will make you jump between items)
So, you could add a third row, or just cram everything together and add tens of icons, or even, for the wizards among us, create a scrolling frontpage.
Just remember to backup your pbOEM.xml file first, in case you screw up.