The Media Center Sandbox

Hi
As per the SDK 5.3 specification:
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Third-party Extenders, however, use a separate type of display mechanism that does not have the 3D rendering capabilities to display elements rotated on the X or Y axes. In effect, it will correctly display your Z-axis rotation for an element but it will ignore your specification for the X-axis and Y-axis rotations, as if they were set to zero. (This applies only to third-party Extenders. The display will be correct on the Xbox 360.)
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Is this fixed in SDK6? or is it still an issue? Is there any workaround as I want to rotate a panel on it's X-Axis (and no it's not a graphic).

Thanks.

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blog.manghera.com

I think this is a limitation of the hardware rather than the platform - the platform is capable (as can be seen with the XBox 360), it's the Pika implementation that's an issue.  No SDK update will address this, it would have to be addressed in the Pika implementation.

To get around it, you could create the rotation in code (creating a bitmap and saving to file, then reloading into an Image) when addressing a Pika based extender.

Cheers,
Andrew

:( It's incredibly frustrating programming to the lowest common denominator. My next question would be are there any plans for an update to the Pika platform to address these bugs?

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blog.manghera.com

Well Linksys have discontinued their extender, and I think HP have as well, so the lowest common denominator may soon be the Xbox!

Touché.

Well I'm ready to declare pika a lost cause ....

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blog.manghera.com