The Media Center Sandbox

I'm trying to skip the finished-notification that appears after a video has stopped playing in fullscreen mode. I want my application to go back 1 page in the history, or in other words, automatically click 'Done'.
I have managed to detect that the video has stopped and I can succesfully call the session.BackPage method, but Media Center remains showing the finished notification until the user clicks 'Done'.
Can I tell Media Center to skip the finished-notification or somehow make Media Center respond as if 'Done' has been clicked?

You could try sending a "return" to the page using a "SendKeys" type method and see if that works.

Cheers,
Andrew

Thanks Andrew!
System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.SendWait("~"); does the trick.

Try the ApplicationContext.ReturnToApplication Method -- see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb188919.aspx

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Charlie Owen (Microsoft)

Thanks Charlie, good to know that this can be done from within the media center programming model, Andrews solutions worked as well but felt more like a workaround.

I can't seem to get this to work in v5.1. Any ideas?

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if (host.MediaCenterEnvironment.MediaExperience.IsFullScreen)

{

host.ApplicationContext.ReturnToApplication();

}

ruthjes:

Thanks Charlie, good to know that this can be done from within the media center programming model, Andrews solutions worked as well but felt more like a workaround.

I'd say most Media Center development = workaround! :)

davidtjudd:

I can't seem to get this to work in v5.1. Any ideas?

Guess what - it is (like so much else) broken in Fiji/TV-Pack.

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Charlie, can you help me out here? The SendKeys hack doesn't even work. I really do not want to try and slop something together like P/Invoking over to ehshell to avoid having a frozen screen after a video finishes.