PICED Subpages

Hi Guys,

Been playing around with subpages (simliar to crestron which is good)

I have a question that I cant find a setting for.
When placing a subpage frame how can you make it stay "always on top" of either:

2nd sub frame on same page or
Of a button when placed on a theme page

The send back or bring to front doesnt seem work and I cant see any priority options.

 

Sub-Page Frames can be in front of or behind components, like any other component. It may be that you sub-page being displayed has a transparent background and it looks like it is not doing what you expect. Set the background to a colour and see what happens.

 

The background is transparent but I changed it back to a fixed colour and that didnt fix the problem.

Seems that when the subfame is placed in a theme page it is always behind what ever is placed on the page that the theme is being used. This would make sense, I guess that unless the subframe is on the same page it wont show over other controls. So then for every page that uses a menu looks like i will have to place the same subframes instead of just setting the page to a theme page...

 

That is correct. Anything on a theme page, including sub-page frames, will be behind any components on the page using the theme page.

 

Hi Darren,

Not sure if its possible but in logic is there a way to 'Show Sub-Page'. I can see in special functions there is ExecuteSpecialFunction("Sub-Page Transition" xx) but not a sub page jump.

eg, if condition xx then jump to subpage yy.

 

There are two ways of doing it. See the logic help file topic "ShowSubPage Procedure" (PICED 4.9.2) for the easy way of doing it.

 

Thanks,

I did the following to test. Created 2 Sub pages 1 & 2 and placed on New Page. Then used the following

ShowSubPage(Currentpage, 0, "1");
Delay(2);
ShowSubPage(Currentpage, 0, "2");
Delay(2);

This didnt work, When on "New Page" CurrentPage was returing 0 but the actual page was 6.???
If I used the tag or number 6 it works.

ShowSubPage(6, 0, "1");
Delay(2);
ShowSubPage("New Page", 0, "2");
Delay(2);

I unticked the sort pages shown below, Are sub pages counted as pages ? If so then Page 6 makes sense.

 

It is strongly recommended that you use tags. Otherwise if you rearrange things, then everything will stop working if you use component numbers or page numbers.

The problem is that the page number used in ShowSubPage actually references the combined list of theme pages, sub pages and regular pages. The CurrentPage is referencing just the list of regular pages (since you can't view anything but a regular page in normal operation).

 

Thanks Darren,

Makes sense now.