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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Snuffy2 on January 26, 2004, 06:28:01 pm
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Is there anyway to create a shortcut to start MC and have it start in Hairstyle Mode?
This would be very beneficial for my GF who just wants to select music to listen to & NOTHING else :D (Menus and excess confuse her greatly; Winamp is almost too much for her)
Thanx
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In MC
Tools/options/startup/interface
Sel. Hairstyle.
If you want to boot to mc,
Put a link in the Windows Startup.
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Or, if you just want a separate shortcut that will start MC in HS mode without changing the startup option (thereby affecting other users) then you could try this:
mjextman.exe /Mode [modename] if the app is not running the call starts MJ in the specified mode, if it's already running the call switches Media Jukebox to the specified mode. List of Mode names: Megame, Minime, Fullscreen. If modename is empty MJ will start in user defined mode.
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I'm not able to try it right now but I suspect this was written some time ago and does actually support a mode name of Hairstyle. You could try creating a shortcut to mjextman.exe /Mode Hairstyle.
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Or, if you just want a separate shortcut that will start MC in HS mode without changing the startup option (thereby affecting other users) then you could try this:
mjextman.exe /Mode [modename] if the app is not running the call starts MJ in the specified mode, if it's already running the call switches Media Jukebox to the specified mode. List of Mode names: Megame, Minime, Fullscreen. If modename is empty MJ will start in user defined mode.
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I'm not able to try it right now but I suspect this was written some time ago and does actually support a mode name of Hairstyle. You could try creating a shortcut to mjextman.exe /Mode Hairstyle.
This is more like what I'm attempting to do. I'd like an Icon that starts in Hairstyle, but I'd also like an icon that'd start in Mega-Me (this is just me being picky BTW - nothin too important).
The /Mode Hairstyle doesn't seem to work. From what I've tried, fullscreen, megame & minime are the vaild words for /Mode.
In addition I've tried "mjextman.exe /MCC 22009,3" This command will switch to Hairstyle if MC is running but it wont start MC in Hairstyle mode. In fact if you run that and MC isn't running, nothing hapens.
So ..... Is there a command that starts MC in Hairstyle or should I just combine a start command & mjextman.exe /MCC 22009,3 in a batch file?
Thanx
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You could do it that way. Why not create 2 shortcuts - 1 to start it as normal and another that will switch it to Theatre Mode. Do you think she could manage that?
If you had a remote you could easily automate this using Girder. Then you'd have just 1 button press to start MC and switch to hairstyle. You could have another button that displays an On Screen Display with a numeric menu of everything she's likely to want to do (like play her favorite playlist, switch to visualisations, switch back to Theatre Mode, change volume / bass / treble etc.
There's no way my wife would be prepared to spend enough time with MC to learn her way around it but she can do everything she ever wants to do with a few buttons on the remote.
The OSD menu was a really good idea as she doesn't have to learn the functions associated with a load of different buttons on the remote - just 1.
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You don't need a remote to take advantage of Girder.... you could set up a shortcut to trigger an event in Girder (the same as if you'd pressed a button on the remote) by running the command "event StartMCTheatreView -silent" (the -silent just stops event.exe from popping up a window) - which would trigger a 'girderevent' of 'StartMCTheatreView' in Girder.
Girder is also equally suited to keyboard shortcuts (which could be used for the OSD you mentioned JLee...) with which you can use any combination of shift, ctrl, alt, win (windows key) and just about any other key on the keyboard (ctrl-alt-win-A for example.)
Girder takes a little time to learn at first, but once you get there the power far outweighs to learning time, in my opinion. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.