Further Configuration of the Remote
for Sue Center

There are 3 files in C:\SueCenterData that need to be created/modified.

english\popupC.txt
Remote.txt
Remote-codes.txt

Sue Center can actually have more than one remote dialog in case you wish to have separate controls for each device. To do this you create two more files for each dialog:

RemoteXX.txt
RemoteXX-codes.txt

where XX can be any suffix you wish (like VHS, DVD, DVR, Dish, etc).

The Command Popup

The file english\popupC.txt describes the contents of the Cmd popup. It is a plain text file which you can edit with Notepad, for example. This file has the following 5 lines at the top:

Cmd
5
single
COMMANDS
Command

which you should just leave as is and can ignore.

The subsequent lines contain the command words that are displayed 5 across and then down within the Cmd popup. If a line contains only ^^ it means that that space will be left blank. You can rearrange or delete these lines according to your needs. Be sure to leave Quit somewhere, however! One of the lines is:

Remote

If you want a separate Remote dialog for a DVD, for example, you can put:

RemoteDVD|DVD

somewhere in the popupC.txt file. The vertical bar character '|' separates the two words. The final "DVD" is what will appear in the command dialog. The first word must begin with "Remote".

You would then create these two files in C:\SueCenterData:

RemoteDVD.txt
RemoteDVD-codes.txt

These are called the 'dialog' file and the 'code' file.

The Dialog File - simple

This file is a plain text file - which you can create with Notepad, for example. Lines that are blank or lines that begin with a # are ignored.

Lines in this file control the content and appearance of the Remote popup dialog. For a simple example:

Louder Softer
Play
Prev Next
Suspend
Done

You can have 1, 2 or 3 commands across.

'Suspend' is a special command that is just like the Suspend/Resume on the main screen of Sue Center. 'Done' will close the dialog and return to the main screen.

This will suffice to create your remote. For further fancy features see below.

The Code File

This file is a plain text file - which you can create with Notepad, for example. Lines that are blank or lines that begin with a # are ignored.

All of the command names in the dialog file need to appear here. The exceptions are Done, Suspend, Scan, and ScanStop. If one is missing you will be notified when launching the Remote dialog. For example:

Sorry, codes for these DVD commands are not present in RemoteDVD-codes: Play

The many groups of numbers that represent the infrared signal for the buttons on your remote will be inserted into this file. See this page for a complete description of how to do that. For the simple example above we would have something like this in RemoteDVD.txt:

Louder 0001 0143 ...
Softer 0002 0044 ...
Play 0023 0984 ...
Prev 0231 0404 ...
Next 0091 0914 ...

The Dialog File - fancy

There are several additional things you can put in the Dialog File to make the dialog more attractive or easier to use. All are optional.

* - an asterisk alone on a line will insert a blank line into the dialog. You can also use the * within a line as a space. Like so:
```
* ^ *
< * >
* v *
```
To have the 4 directional arrows nicely spaced out.
To control the appearance of the entire dialog:
```
title=DVD Remote
color=black/lightgreen
font=Arial 13 bold
```
'title' is the text for the window title.
'color' is the foreground and background color for the entire dialog. Valid color names can be found at this site. You can also, if you wish, put hex values: #12e3f2
'font' is composed of 3 parts: name, size and weight. name is any font name you have installed on your system. size is the point size of the font - from teeny 5 to large 20. weight can be left off ('normal'), 'bold', 'italic', or 'bold italic'.
After any command word you can append a parenthesized list of one or more options separated by spaces:
```
Play (15 darkgreen/lightgreen)
Softer (FR) Louder (FR)
Done (D)
Prev (R) Next (R)
```
The options are as follows:

fore/back
The colors for this command - overriding the dialog's colors.
digits
The amount of vertical padding around the command name - defaults to 10. This can make the command bigger and easier to choose.
D
Delay the choosing of this by 1.5 times of normal. Use this for 'Done' so that you don't choose it by mistake.
R
Repeat this command until you move off the command label. This is similar to Scan below. Stopping the Scan requires the choosing of another command.
FR
Faster repeat.
Scan - this command word will repeatedly send its infrared signal until you choose some other command. This could be used like a 'Channel Up' button to surf channels until you found something that you liked. The time between commands is controlled by the "Remote Scan Delay" value in the Misc tab of the Sue Center Configuration program.
StopScan - this command will stop the scan described above.

Further Configuration of the Remotefor Sue Center

The Command Popup

The Dialog File - simple

The Code File

The Dialog File - fancy

Further Configuration of the Remote
for Sue Center