Topic: Action Menus, Install Discs, And More... (Read 1628 times)

BenJeremy · « **on:** September 07, 2003, 04:47:00 PM »

Yes, 0.9n.5 will be out soon. I have added enough functionality that complex actions can be performed. I have tested the ability of MXM to handle multi-line action sequences...

In the <Item> node, instead of having an <Exe> tag, you would instead have an <Action> tag, along with the list of commands. There are no variables or conditional statements yet.

You could make a simplified version of Slayer's Disc with:

<Action>
FORMAT C:
FORMAT E:
FORMAT F:
FORMAT G:
COPY D:CDrive C:
COPY D:EDrive E:
COPY D:FDrive F:
COPY D:GDrive G:
</Action>

This action seqence, of course, would format all of the drives and copy over data from the disc to the hard drive. I will likely add some simplified GUI operations, as well.

RESETMENUCACHE
Basically just deletes the menu cache

TRAYOPEN
Opens the CD tray

TRAYCLOSE
Closes the CD Tray

REBOOT
Reboots the machine

SHUTDOWN
Turns the power off

POWERCYCLE
Powers on then off

FORMAT <Drive>
Formats the hard drive (requires the user to change a menu item first!!)

ATTR <FileOrDir> ro|rw
Enables the Read Only attribute to be set or reset

CHMOD 777 <FileOrDir>
Similar to ATTR, used for FlashFXP

LaunchDVD
Launches any Xbox game in the DVD drive

EEPROMBackup [Filename]
Copies the contents of the EEPROM to a file, encrypted

EEPROMRestore [Filename] (Restores EEPROM contents, encrypted, from a file, file defaults to "eeprom.bin" in current directory)
Copies the contents of an file to the EEPROM, file data mnust already be encrypted

MKDIR <PATH>
Makes a directory

RMDIR <PATH> <CASCADE>
Removes a directory. <CASCADE> must be Yes or True for command to handle non-empty directories.

CD <PATH> (GUI only, sets default directory, which starts as MXM's path)
For menu actions, this is used to set a directory "placeholder"

COPY <Path/File/Wildcard> <Path/File>
Copies files or directory contents

RENAME <FileOrPath> <FileOrPath>
Renames a file or path

DELETE <File>
Deletes a file

moowear · « **Reply #1 on:** September 07, 2003, 06:06:00 PM »

Awesome BJ, i'm looking forward to this "Disc-it-once-and-for-all" solution to putting MxM onto newer/larger hd's from the go.

BenJeremy · « **Reply #2 on:** September 07, 2003, 05:05:00 PM »

QUOTE (moowear @ Sep 7 2003, 08:55 PM)

Awesome BJ, i'm looking forward to this "Disc-it-once-and-for-all" solution to putting MxM onto newer/larger hd's from the go.

Yes, I was hoping to get the BASIC intepreter integrated before too long, but that's coming. I'll probably add a <BASIC> tag for little menu-driven Basic apps. All of the "Action" script commands will be available through that.

I'm also going to add some intereactivity via GUI and input.... but that's still not there yet.

yourwishismine · « **Reply #3 on:** September 07, 2003, 07:25:00 PM »

How about an option to turn off the internal 'Y' on the joystick that brings up the system menu... This makes me a little leary of allowing my girlfriends 5 year old to play un-supervised... he's push button happy... lol.. but loves to play the games... turning off that menu would be great...

This post has been edited by yourwishismine: Sep 8 2003, 02:26 AM

geniusalz · « **Reply #4 on:** September 07, 2003, 06:15:00 PM »

Cool. Can't wait for BASIC.

P.S. Would skins have the ability to use BASIC scripting too? That would rock.

BenJeremy · « **Reply #5 on:** September 07, 2003, 06:21:00 PM »

QUOTE (yourwishismine @ Sep 7 2003, 10:14 PM)

How about an option to turn off the internal 'Y' on the joystick that brings up the system menu... This makes me a little leary of allowing my girlfriends 5 year old to play un-supervised... he's push button happy... lol.. but loves to play the games... turning off that menu would be great...

Yes.... I will come up with something soon on that front.

BenJeremy · « **Reply #6 on:** September 07, 2003, 06:22:00 PM »

QUOTE (geniusalz @ Sep 7 2003, 10:15 PM)

Cool. Can't wait for BASIC.

P.S. Would skins have the ability to use BASIC scripting too? That would rock.

Yes, I plan on supporting BASIC in the layouts... imagine a 3-D 3-handed clock displaying the current time

botek13 · « **Reply #7 on:** September 07, 2003, 08:36:00 PM »

BJ, Im sorry to disturb you. Im sure your very busy but, I'm sure you've seen our "Wish List" of features. How are you doing on "high priority" items? Which features do you plan on implementing in the next version soon to be released? Which are scheduled to be released down the road? When can we expect to see these new features in MXM? -Thanks

BenJeremy · « **Reply #8 on:** September 07, 2003, 07:35:00 PM »

QUOTE (botek13 @ Sep 7 2003, 11:25 PM)

BJ, Im sorry to disturb you. Im sure your very busy but, I'm sure you've seen our "Wish List" of features. How are you doing on "high priority" items? Which features do you plan on implementing in the next version soon to be released? Which are scheduled to be released down the road? When can we expect to see these new features in MXM? -Thanks

"When they are done"

Really, that's the best I can offer. As I have stated many times, I'm taking a slight breather to "revisit" portions of existing code, and updating some of the interfaces - that's part of what happened here - I revisited the FTP server, and had to revamp the "SITE" command interface. Next I will be revamping the HTTP Client ("web client") code, followed by another look at the initialization code, and finally, on the image cacheing and rendering code.

The last will probably bring native HDTV compatibility into play and clean up a lot of the image handling issues.

The next lettered version will incorporate the new UI, which will begin a LARGE number of improvements, and that's when MXM will really start to pull away from the pack.

It will also incorporate the BASIC interpreter and a lot of goodies that just don't work well without a solid UI (need to be able to type in things, handle dialog boxes, etc.)

koldfuzion · « **Reply #9 on:** September 07, 2003, 08:14:00 PM »

looking very good and sounding sweeter every time you make a new post.

we applaud your efforts.. you are definitely DA MAN!

DBZRacer · « **Reply #10 on:** September 07, 2003, 11:25:00 PM »

Sweet! Can't wait to try them out in the next release. I know you're going to implement a "BASIC" type compatibility in the future but I was wondering if you could implement something like a "DISPLAYTEXT" action which pops up or displays a short simple message IE: warning messages in an earlier release...

corkinator · « **Reply #11 on:** September 07, 2003, 10:46:00 PM »

Sounds awesome, thanks for the news!!

ub312g0d · « **Reply #12 on:** September 08, 2003, 07:35:00 AM »

Did bj just say a 3d clock!?! Is that a little hint that a little more than basic scripting is getting added soon?

Please continue making this the best dash out there bj and thanx for the hard work you've already put into it.
ALL HAIL BJ! ALL HAIL BJ!

This post has been edited by ub312g0d: Sep 8 2003, 02:36 PM

BenJeremy · « **Reply #13 on:** September 08, 2003, 06:37:00 AM »

QUOTE (ub312g0d @ Sep 8 2003, 10:24 AM)

Did bj just say a 3d clock!?! Is that a little hint that a little more than basic scripting is getting added soon?

Please continue making this the best dash out there bj and thanx for the hard work you've already put into it.
ALL HAIL BJ! ALL HAIL BJ!

Well, don't know about "soon" - but it's coming.

Beelzebud · « **Reply #14 on:** September 08, 2003, 08:15:00 PM »

Sounds good, I can't wait.

Thanks for all your work so far. This dash is the best. I love it.

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