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Cockpit Menu
With this skin the MENU key opens a menu of your own favorite cockpit items instead of the main menu. A cockpit item is any entry of the menu tree, a plugin of the plugin list or an entry of the extensions menu, or a bouquet or a single DVB or stream channel. The whole tree, the main menu as before, is one key away: MENU in the cockpit menu opens it, so nothing is out of reach.
The cockpit menu is a normal enigma2 menu, drawn by the skin like all others.
| Key | In the cockpit menu | In the editors |
|---|---|---|
| OK | opens the cockpit item | cockpit editor: adds / removes the selected entry, a menu as well; bouquet editor: adds / removes the selected bouquet; button editor: chooses the cockpit item of the button |
| RIGHT | cockpit editor: opens the selected menu; bouquet editor: opens the channels of the selected bouquet | |
| Red, green, yellow, blue | opens the cockpit item assigned to the button (see below) | cockpit and bouquet editor: yellow does the same as OK |
| MENU | opens the main menu (the menu tree) | closes the editor |
| TXT (TEXT) | opens a choice: Cockpit Editor, Bouquet Editor, Button Editor | |
| CHANNEL UP / CHANNEL DOWN | jumps to the upper list (media) / the lower list (menu and plugins), see below | |
| PREVIOUS / NEXT | moves the selected cockpit item up / down | |
| EXIT | closes the cockpit | goes up one level |
PREVIOUS and NEXT are the keys that move an entry in the list of the plugins, and they work the same way: the first cockpit item moved up goes to the end, the last one moved down goes to the start. An item moves within its own list (see below).
With the menus drawn as grids (Menu style Horizontal) the cockpit menu is two grids of tiles, each on a panel of its own, a bit lighter than the window:
- Upper, two rows of 7 tiles: media. The bouquets and the channels of the TV (see Bouquets and channels below).
- Lower, two rows of 7 tiles: menu and plugins. Everything else: entries of the menu tree, plugins and extensions.
The two lists are independent. Only the list that has the cursor shows the selected tile; the arrow keys, OK and PREVIOUS / NEXT all work on that list. CHANNEL UP puts the cursor in the upper list, CHANNEL DOWN in the lower one. The title tells which list it is: Cockpit - Media above, Cockpit - Menu/Plugins below. If one of the lists has no tiles, the key to it does nothing. The tiles are 238 x 190, like those of the list of the plugins. There is no description line under the grids. Each list has its own page dots under it: a list shows 14 tiles (2 rows of 7), with more tiles it goes on to a next page and the page dots show which one it is on.
With the list style of the menus (Menu style Standard), or a skin that does not have the two lists, the cockpit menu is a single list with all the items, the bouquets and channels among them, as before.
With no cockpit items the screen is empty; press TXT and choose the editor to add some. With a single cockpit item the screen still waits for you, it does not open that item at once, so the keys MENU and TXT can always be reached.
The cockpit menu opens with the cursor on the cockpit item it was on the last time: when you leave the cockpit, or open an entry, the position is saved, with the list it was in: the cursor starts in the upper or the lower list as it was. It is saved as the path of the cockpit item, not as a number, so it still finds the item after you have moved or removed others; if the item is gone the cursor starts at the top. After one of the editors closes, the cursor is back on the cockpit item it was on (if you removed that one, the next item takes its place).
Each of the four colour keys can open one of your cockpit items straight from the cockpit menu. The footer shows the name of the cockpit item next to the key; a key without a cockpit item shows nothing and does nothing. Press TXT and choose Button Editor: it has a row for each key, OK on a row shows your cockpit items, and None takes the assignment away.
The cockpit items themselves are changed in the cockpit editor (TXT, Cockpit Editor). If you remove a cockpit item there, the colour keys that opened it are cleared as well, so a key never opens an entry that is not a cockpit item any more.
The editor shows the menu tree level by level, so an entry is picked in the menu it
belongs to: there are several Settings, Network or Plugins in the tree, and each
is in its own menu. A row is marked [x] if it is a cockpit item and [ ] if it is not;
a menu ends in >. OK (or yellow) switches the mark of the selected row, a menu as
well: to remove Timers from the cockpit items, put the cursor on the row Timers and press
OK. RIGHT opens a menu, to pick an entry in it.
At the end of the first level are two menus that are not part of the tree:
- Plugin list: the plugins of the plugin list (MovieCockpit, ...)
- Extensions: the plugins of the extensions menu (the blue key of the infobar)
These two have no path of their own, so OK opens them. The entries that a plugin adds to a menu of the tree are shown in that menu. A change is saved at once.
The editors are always drawn as lists, also if Menu style is Horizontal: their menus are long.
A bouquet of the TV can be a cockpit item as well. Press TXT and choose Bouquet Editor:
it lists the bouquets of the TV, marked [x] if they are cockpit items and [ ] if they are
not, and OK (or yellow) switches the mark, like in the cockpit editor. The tile of a
bouquet has the icon bouquet, the name of the bouquet, and the description Channel list.
Opening such a cockpit item (with OK or with a colour key) closes the cockpit menu and shows the channel selection in the TV mode, on that bouquet, the same as if you had chosen the bouquet in the channel selection yourself. If the bouquets are not used (Multi bouquet is off) the one bouquet of the favourites is listed. Only the bouquets of the TV are offered, not those of the radio. A bouquet that is deleted later is skipped, and a colour key that opened it does nothing, like with a plugin that is removed.
Single channels are cockpit items too. In the Bouquet Editor, RIGHT on a bouquet opens
the channels of that bouquet, again marked [x] or [ ], and OK (or yellow) switches the
mark of a channel. The markers (the section names of a bouquet) are not offered. A channel is
kept together with the bouquet that it was picked in. Its tile has the icon channel (a TV with a
play triangle), the name of the channel, and the description Channel; it is in the upper list
with the bouquets, in the order of your cockpit items.
Opening a channel (OK or a colour key) closes the cockpit menu and zaps to the channel, as the channel selection does it: the TV mode, that bouquet, the channel. If the channel is not in the bouquet any more, its tile is skipped.
On a box where no cockpit has been set up yet, the cockpit menu fills itself once, the first time it is opened:
- the first list (the channels) gets up to 7 bouquets of the TV, in the order of the channel selection (with Multi bouquet off, the one favourites bouquet);
- the second list gets up to 7 plugins that you have installed, in the order of the plugin list. These are the plugins whose package is in enigma2's User installed plugins (the list of the plugin browser, yellow key): not the ones that come with the image, and not what an installed plugin depends on.
Looking up the installed packages takes a moment, so the first opening of the cockpit menu can be a little slower. After that the cockpit is yours: change it in the editors, and nothing is added or removed on its own (a plugin that you install later is not added). A cockpit that you have emptied stays empty.