4) Questions: If I use the TheaterView with several zones there is no indication on the screen in which zone I'm actually 'working' - in StandardView there is this indication in the
center of the player bar. Where and how can I make that information visible? The next question would be: what is the name of this field for creating a customized display
view? And third question: Switching from one zone to the next with the toggle function isn't really a solution for me. Is there any way to bind zone switching to a keyboard
key sequence or IR command? (like <ALT><CTRL><1> etc.)
i can help with a part of question 4.
for getting the zone info in theaterview change the
<Item Text="[Location]"
in for instance
<Item Text="[Zone] - [Location]"
you can do that by copying your theaterview skin (in the fullskins folder in mc). rename the folder and open the main.xml with notepad. change the skin name at the top and go to <text>. if this does not do the trick, say what skin you use and i can see what else should be changed.
to switch zones with you keyboard:
go to the folder where mc is installed. in the mc folder there is a folder called data. in data make a new folder called: Custom Resources
open the folder Default Resources and copy the file resource.xml to the new folder custom recources.
open the just copied recource xml with notepad.
add somewhere, for instance at the end of the file before </accelrators>, something like:
<!-- Switch zones -->
<Entry Key="Ctrl;Alt;NumPad1" Command="10011" Param="0" />
<Entry Key="Ctrl;Alt;NumPad2" Command="10011" Param="1" />
<Entry Key="Ctrl;Alt;NumPad3" Command="10011" Param="2" />
<Entry Key="Ctrl;Alt;NumPad4" Command="10011" Param="3" />
this will switch between 4 zones using the ctr alt numpad.
to use the remote, maybe you can add something there like
mc12.exe /mcc 10011,0 for zone 1
mc12.exe /mcc 10011,1 for zone 2 etc
hope it helps
gab
btw. you can find the commands used for switching zones here:
http://wiki.jrmediacenter.com/index.php/Media_Center_Core_Commands