I am in the process of making a Roku channel. The idea is to have a full screen player going, if the user presses a particular button on remote, a small pop up menu will display in a corner of the screen with a list of available channels. I have all working with the following exception: I can't figure out how to populate the area where the menu displays. Currently I have a transparent roImageCanvas on layer 1, the menu box is drawn on layer 2. The problem is that roImageCanvas allows for a text element but only one Item. So if I have a list of 10 channels, I would have to create 10 items on the canvas. The roImageCanvas does not accept arrays. So there is no way to create the pop menu on the fly if the number of channels changes. The number of items on the canvas has to be hard coded as far as I can tell. Ideally the roListScreen is what I would like to pop up but from what I understand all screens are full screen all the time. Does anybody know of a way to populate the targetbox on the canvas or create a screen that is resizable? Thanks for any suggestions
A roImageCanvas layer is an array. There is no technical limitation to you adding >1 elements to a layer and so you can add as many separate text items as you want (not hard-coded!). It seems to me best to have 1 text element per 1 menu item, so you can use their bounding rectangles (or text color) to highlight the choice