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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:18 AM

What Now?

I have had some readers ask what is to become of this blog. Well, it started out discussing Office Development , then it covered Threat Modelling , and most recently it has been about HDi . There have been several posts about the Pet Shop Boys and then
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 5:22 PM

HD DVD Emulator for Xbox 360!

It's finally here! The Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator went live today, enabling content authors to test their HD DVD content in a real-world consumer player before committing it to a shiny disc. This can save a lot of time and a lot of money for those folks
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 1:37 AM

Helpful Tracing Routines

Last time we looked at conditional compilation , and how using it with HDiSim could aid with interactive debugging of runtime exceptions. But as useful as interactive debugging is, there are three major cases where it is impractical or impossible: When
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Friday, June 01, 2007 6:07 PM

link

No, not the application.link API. A web link. Or two. Some of you may have noticed a new name on the HD DVD Forums of late: Amy Dullard . She also has a great blog that focuses on getting people up-and-running with HDi. Check it out at http://blogs.msdn.com/amyd
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:28 PM

Script Execution Order in HD DVD

An HDi application can use multiple script files so that you can better manage your code (more manageable files; easier source control; etc.). You do this simply by listing the files inside <Script> elements inside the manifest (and of course add
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Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:04 PM

Toggling Menus with the Menu button in 100% Markup

Here's a quick one: How do you have an HD DVD menu that opens and closes when you click the Menu button, but doesn't require any script? It's pretty easy, but it relies on using a dummy element to hold your state; in this case whether the menu "can open"
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:37 AM

Bare Bones HD DVD Interactivity

We spend a fair amount of time focusing on "cool" menus in HD DVD -- with animations, transparency, and so on -- but sometimes you just want to get a title out and all you really needs is a basic menu system. You may even have some assets already set
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Attachment(s): BareBonesMenu.zip
Monday, September 11, 2006 7:28 PM

Adding Picture-In-Picture to an HD DVD Title

Picture-in-Picture (PIP) is one of those "cool" features in HD DVD that looks really difficult but is really easy to do -- contrast that with so many other things that look simple or are taken for granted, but take forever to implement... That's not to
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Friday, September 01, 2006 11:42 AM

Scrolling Menus in 100% Pure Markup

After looking at drop-down menus in 100% pure markup , we turn our attention to scrolling lists. These can be used for things like chapter menus or other long lists of items. This demo is horizontal, but you could do it vertically also (and in fact, I
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Monday, August 14, 2006 7:03 AM

First European HD DVD Title is Open Source

Well, this should get the Slashdot folks on our side :-) Andrew pinged me this morning about the Elephants Dream HD DVD relea s e in Europe. The name was familiar to me, but I didn’t know why... had it won an Oscar(R) or something? No, it’s because Elephants
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Monday, July 17, 2006 2:50 PM

How do I get started with iHD?

Many DVD authoring professionals may be wondering how they can get started with HD DVD. Probably the first thing to do is to download the iHD Jumpstart kit and get yourself a good XML editor (like the free Visual Studio Web Developer edition ) and a graphics
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Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:25 PM

Pretty Buttons

Tonight's sample is for animating buttons in a generic way. As with all the samples on my blog, this is just one way you can approach things in iHD; nothing says it is the only way (or even the best way). The animation will be a simple "roll-over" effect
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Attachment(s): DynamicButtons.zip
Sunday, July 02, 2006 2:46 AM

Radio Groups in iHD

One of the things you take for granted in many programming environments is the default "widget" set that includes things like buttons, text boxes, and so on. These widgets make up the basic UI that your applications displays to users to display data and
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Friday, May 19, 2006 7:23 PM

Hello World, Part 4: Script and a Movie! [Part iv: The Script]

The light at the end of the tunnel! We've looked at the Playlist and the Manifest file , and the markup file , and now it's on to the actual script file. Anyone familiar with JScript programming for web pages (or WSH or other hosts) shouldn't have a problem
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Friday, May 19, 2006 6:05 PM

Hello World, Part 4: Script and a Movie! [Part iii: The Markup]

Now we've looked at the Playlist and the Manifest file for our sample, let's look at the markup file. Markup.xmu The markup file is not radically different from our previous attempts, but there are a few new things in it. Sorry if the line wrapping is
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