Stop to Main Menu?

Would love it if someone could explain to me how to get the action of hitting the stop button to take you back to the main menu (menu 1) instead of taking you out of the disk altogether or taking you to the jacket picture. Does that make sense?
Cheers, MJ

Hi Miranda - welcome to the discussions!
You're finding out that the remote control buttons are not all programmable in the way you would want. The stop button is a case in point - it is defined as the button to stop playback completely and will only ever stop the disc. Instead of using 'Stop' you need to get used to using the 'menu' button or the 'Title' button to get you to a menu.
The menu button is used when playing a track to take you to whatever menu you wish within your disc structure (depending on which track you are in), but pressing it a second time will resume playback of the last track that played, from the point you left it. If you weren't in a track the menu button will not move you out of the menu, and will probably do nothing.
The Title button can be used to access the first menu (the Title) menu of your disc from wherever, but you can also program it to go to any menu when it is pressed. You can only define one menu as the Title menu for the disc.
So - time to learn about what the buttons on the remote are set up to do, and un-learn all you knew about stop buttons!

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I am experiencing a very frustrating situation.
I have burned a DVD with 2 short movies on it.
When I play either of them all the way through, after they're over, it returns automatically to the main menu, which is what I want.
However, when I STOP either of them anywhere during the playing, it does NOT return to the main menu. It just stays on a black screen.
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Ok, don't press STOP, just press "menu" or "title" without pressing stop.
BTW, I tested both a commercial DVD (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) and and a iDVD disk in my Panosonic player and on my Mac with the Apple DVD player.
On the Panosonic Player: If I press Stop on either DVD, I go to a blank screen. If I press menu once and wait a sec or two, both DVDs go back to the main menu.
On the Apple DVD player: If I press Stop on either DVD, I go to a blank screen, and pressing "menu" gives me the "not permitted" warning for both DVDs.....
So It seems like fro me, iDVD works just like the commercial DVD on both the Mac and the DVD player.....
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Hi there folks,
I have been following and bastardising a computer arts tutorial for a dynamic flash site, its a really good tutorial and I'd like to keep going with that format/style, but I'm pretty new to the whole scripting thing and am finding it a bit of a headache, so was wondering if any kind souls would help me work out how to add submenus to the code below. the main menu button is a movie file(btn_projects_main) consisting of a button (button) and a text box(txt) and is 3 frames long to allow for the different states:
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linksArray = new Array();
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descriptionsArray[count] = nodeObj.attributes.description;
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filesArray[count] = nodeObj.attributes.file;
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btn_yPos = _root.btn_projects_main._y;
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No ideas at al guys?
I just need a couple of pointers as in what to code needs adding and where, I've created a new movie clip with the name subs (instance sub1), surely its now just a matter of connecting that instance to the sub_projects node in the xml - I guess it also needs to be linked to a parent project button + told to only run when that parent is clicked. I've downloaded loads of different code from various sources, but as there seem to be lots of different ways to write the same commands, its feeling really confusing.
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Thanks for participating in the Apple Support Communities.
If your iPhone display turned black and white after holding down the Home button for 2 seconds, first try pressing the Home button again to go to the main menu (Home screen.)
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Having soem troubles installing gnome-main-menu-svn (SLAB) installed from the AUR using yaourt. After getting all the dependencies figured out, there still seems to be problems.
Here is what I have so far:
$ yaourt -S gnome-main-menu-svn
==> Resuming previous build
==> Downloading gnome-main-menu-svn PKGBUILD from AUR...
==> Last 5 comments ordered by date (asc):
Comment by: pressh on 20070926 [10:17:48]
- beagle depends > makedepends
- added instructions for beagle/tracker search functionality to install file
Comment by: pressh on 20071206 [08:22:07]
cleanup
Comment by: raul_nds on 20080118 [02:07:13]
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Comment by: laloch on 20080427 [15:12:48]
current revision (451) doesn't work with networkmanager 0.6.6 from extra. Revision 401 from http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-main-menu/branches/gnome-2-22/ works for now.
First Submitted: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:30:49 +0000
Last Updated: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:22:07 +0000
gnome-main-menu-svn 350-2 (Unsupported): Novell SLED Gnome main-menu applet
==> gnome-main-menu-svn dependencies:
- glib2 (already installed)
- gtk-doc (already installed)
- libgnome (already installed)
- gnome-panel (already installed)
- libgtop (already installed)
- dbus-sharp (already installed)
- networkmanager (already installed)
- hal (already installed)
- wireless_tools (already installed)
- gnome-menus (already installed)
- avahi (already installed)
- libbeagle (already installed)
- libgail-gnome (already installed)
- gnome-screensaver (already installed)
- intltool (already installed)
- pkgconfig (already installed)
- subversion (already installed)
- gnome-common (already installed)
- versionpkg (already installed)
- beagle (already installed)
==> Edit the PKGBUILD (recommended) ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ----------------------------------------------
==>n
==> WARNING: This PKGBUILD contains install file that can be dangerous.
gnome-main-menu.install
==> Edit gnome-main-menu.install (recommended) ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ----------------------------------------------
==>n
==> Continue the building of 'gnome-main-menu-svn'? [Y/n]
==> ----------------------------------------------
==>y
==> Building and installing package
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/abs': Permission denied
==> WARNING: Unable to write in /var/abs/local/yaourtbuild/gnome-main-menu-svn directory. Using /tmp directory
==> Searching new CVS/SVN/GIT revision for gnome-main-menu-svn
==> retrieving latest revision number from svn... 467
==> newer revision detected: 467
==> modifying PKGBUILD to pkgver=467...
==> Determining latest svn revision...
-> Version found: 467
==> Making package: gnome-main-menu-svn 467-2 (Fri May 16 16:11:44 ADT 2008)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
==> Extracting Sources...
==> Removing existing pkg/ directory...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting build()...
At revision 467.
==> SVN checkout done or server timeout
==> Starting make...
/usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
checking for autoconf >= 2.53...
testing autoconf2.50... not found.
testing autoconf... found 2.62
checking for automake >= 1.9...
testing automake-1.10... found 1.10.1
checking for libtool >= 1.4.3...
testing libtoolize... found 2.2
checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0...
testing glib-gettextize... found 2.16.3
checking for intltool >= 0.25...
testing intltoolize... found 0.37.1
checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0...
testing pkg-config... found 0.23
checking for gtk-doc >= 1.0...
testing gtkdocize... found 1.10
Checking for required M4 macros...
Checking for forbidden M4 macros...
Processing ./configure.in
Running libtoolize...
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: You should add the contents of the following files to `aclocal.m4':
libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4'
Running glib-gettextize... Ignore non-fatal messages.
Copying file mkinstalldirs
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
Please add the files
codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
progtest.m4
from the /aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.
You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.
Running intltoolize...
Running gtkdocize...
Running aclocal-1.10...
Running autoconf...
Running autoheader...
Running automake-1.10...
Processing ./trunk/configure.in
Running libtoolize...
libtoolize: You should add the contents of the following files to `aclocal.m4':
libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: `/usr/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4'
Running glib-gettextize... Ignore non-fatal messages.
Copying file mkinstalldirs
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
Please add the files
codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
progtest.m4
from the /aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.
You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.
Running intltoolize...
intltoolize: 'po/Makefile.in.in' is out of date: use '--force' to overwrite
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
Aborting...
Error: Makepkg was unable to build gnome-main-menu-svn package.
Any help is appreciated. I really love that menu!

I ran yaourt as root to install gnome-main-menu-svn, and it got past that part. Looks like that was a problem with permissions that also needs to be fixed.
Now its telling me that I don't have a high enough version of libnm-glib, it is asking for >= 0.7.0, and I have 0.6.6. I checked the the repos and there does not seem to be a 0.7.0 version or higher available. A suggestion on the gnome-main-menu-svn package page makes a suggestion, but Im not sure how to go about it
current revision (451) doesn't work with networkmanager 0.6.6 from extra. Revision 401 from http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-main-men … nome-2-22/ works for now.
So I either need to get revision 401 from the svn instead, or get networkmanager and its libs at version 0.7.0
How could I go about doing any of these things. I am not familiar with SVN, so go easy on me.
EDIT:
I found a package called networkmanager-beta which seems to be version 0.7.0. Trying to install that with yaourt is unsuccessful as well.
NetworkManager-nm-netlink.o: In function `nm_netlink_get_default_handle':
nm-netlink.c:(.text+0x38): undefined reference to `nl_handle_alloc_nondefault'
nm-netlink.c:(.text+0x63): undefined reference to `nl_handle_set_pid'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [NetworkManager] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-networkmanager-beta/networkmanager-beta/src/NetworkManager-0.7.0/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-networkmanager-beta/networkmanager-beta/src/NetworkManager-0.7.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-networkmanager-beta/networkmanager-beta/src/NetworkManager-0.7.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
Aborting...
Error: Makepkg was unable to build networkmanager-beta package.
Also had to do yaourt as root to get that far. Why is it that when you use yaourt as root, it advises you to switch to a normal user, and then the packages will not install correctly unless you do?
So far I have been very turned off by the AUR
Last edited by lungdart (2008-05-17 12:59:29)

Need help on mobile gaming development basic {working the game main menu}

package Assignment1;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Random;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.Canvas;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.Display;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.Graphics;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.Image;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.game.GameCanvas;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.game.Sprite;
public class a1Canvas extends GameCanvas implements Runnable{
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    private Image backgroundImage;
    private long frameDelay;
    private int ufoX;
    private int ufoY;
    private int ufoXDir;
    private int ufoXSpeed;
    private int ufoYSpeed;
    private Random rand;
    private Sprite[] roidSprite = new Sprite[3];
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    public a1Canvas(Display display){
        super(true);
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else if ( (keyState & DOWN_PRESSED) != 0 )
ufoYSpeed++;
ufoXSpeed = Math.min(Math.max(ufoXSpeed, -8), 8);
ufoYSpeed = Math.min(Math.max(ufoYSpeed, -8), 8);
ufoSprite.move(ufoXSpeed, ufoYSpeed); // Move the UFO sprite
checkBounds(ufoSprite); // Wrap UFO sprite around the screen
// Update the roid sprites
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
roidSprite[i].move(i + 1, 1 - i); // Move the roid sprites
checkBounds(roidSprite[i]); // Wrap asteroid sprite around the screen
// Increment the frames of the roid sprites; 1st and 3rd asteroids spin in opposite direction as 2nd
if (i == 1)
          roidSprite[i].prevFrame();
else
          roidSprite[i].nextFrame();
// Check for a collision between the UFO and roids
if ( ufoSprite.collidesWith(roidSprite[i], true) ) {
System.out.println("Game Over !");
gameOverState = true;
}//if
}//for
public void stop(){
gameOverState = true;
private void checkBounds(Sprite sprite) {
// Wrap the sprite around the screen if necessary
if (sprite.getX() < -sprite.getWidth())
     sprite.setPosition(getWidth(), sprite.getY());
else if (sprite.getX() > getWidth())
     sprite.setPosition(-sprite.getWidth(), sprite.getY());
if (sprite.getY() < -sprite.getHeight())
     sprite.setPosition(sprite.getX(), getHeight());
else if (sprite.getY() > getHeight())
     sprite.setPosition(sprite.getX(), -sprite.getHeight());
private void gotoMainMenu(Graphics graphics) {
graphics.setColor(0, 0, 0);
graphics.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
graphics.setColor(255, 0, 0);
graphics.drawRect(0, 0, getWidth()-1, getHeight()-1);
graphics.setColor(255, 255, 255);
graphics.drawString("GAME NAME", getWidth()/2 -50, 30, Graphics.LEFT | Graphics.TOP);
graphics.setColor(255, 0, 0);
graphics.drawString("Main Menu", getWidth()/2 -50, 50, Graphics.LEFT | Graphics.TOP);
graphics.setColor(0, 255, 0);
graphics.drawString("Start Game", getWidth()/2 , 80, Graphics.LEFT | Graphics.TOP);
graphics.drawString("Instructions", getWidth()/2 , 110, Graphics.LEFT | Graphics.TOP);
flushGraphics();
int keyState = getKeyStates();
if ( (keyState & FIRE_PRESSED) != 0 ){
System.out.println("game start");
gameOverState = false;
The problem i am facing is :
the FIRE button is not functioning, i put a system.out.println and it didnt print.
i am unsure whether i put the key input listener at the correct function
this button is supposed to start the game again.
What i want to do :
i want to display the main menu when i launched the game
when game is over, it will display back to the main menu again
when i press the fire button it will play the game again.
i hope someone can help me on this :)

kdoom wrote:
The problem i am facing is :
the FIRE button is not functioning, i put a system.out.println and it didnt print.
i am unsure whether i put the key input listener at the correct function
this button is supposed to start the game again.
What i want to do :
i want to display the main menu when i launched the game
when game is over, it will display back to the main menu again
when i press the fire button it will play the game again.
i hope someone can help me on this :)You didn't have to create a whole new post just for the formatted code, silly. You could have just replied in the old thread. Anyway:
Step through the program and think about what each line is doing. Most importantly:
    public void run() {
        while (!gameOverState){
            update();
            draw(getGraphics());
            try{
                Thread.sleep(frameDelay);
            }catch(InterruptedException ie){}
        gotoMainMenu(getGraphics());
    }This says that while the game is being played, update( ), then draw( ). When the game is over, call gotoMainMenu( ).
   private void gotoMainMenu(Graphics graphics) {
        //do a bunch of graphics stuff
        int keyState = getKeyStates();
        if ( (keyState & FIRE_PRESSED) != 0 ){
            System.out.println("game start");
            gameOverState = false;
    }This says to do a bunch of graphics stuff, and then to check the key states. If fire is being pressed, print something out and set gameOverState to false. This check only happens once. When the state is being checked, most likely the user will not be pressing any keys, so the code is done.
Also, simply setting the gameOverState variable to false outside of the loop you use it in won't do anything. For example:
boolean doLoop = true;
int count = 0;
while(doLoop){
   count++;
   if(count > 10){
      doLoop = false;
doLoop = true;Would you expect that second doLoop = true to start the while loop over?

Angry birds rio quit working on my ipad. When I try to start the game, it shuts down completely and goes to the main menu screen. This started when I downloaded the latest app. The other angry bird games still work. I really need help.

Angry birds rio quit working when I installed the latest app. I even uninstalled it and started over. When I try to start the game, it goes back to the main menu. I need help badly but in simplest of terms so I'll be able to follow.

Have you tried closing the app completely ? From the home screen (i.e. not with Angry Birds 'open' on-screen) double-click the home button to bring up the taskbar, then press and hold any of the apps on the taskbar for a couple of seconds or so until they start shaking, then press the '-' in the top left of the Angry Birds app to close it, and touch any part of the screen above the taskbar so as to stop the shaking and close the taskbar.
If that doesn't work then you could try a reset : press and hold both the sleep and home buttons for about 10 to 15 seconds (ignore the red slider), after which the Apple logo should appear - you won't lose any content, it's the iPad equivalent of a reboot.

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