I have an activity where the Home button is set up to jump to different pages depending on how long it is pressed for. It does this using onHold, onHoldInterval and onRelease. The button works fine most of the time.

However, there is one circumstance where the button never works. This is when:

1. I arrive at the activity from another activity using executeActions; AND
2. The Home button is the FIRST button I then press.

What happens is that the onHold function doesn't work (even though I have set
onHoldInterval), so my counter is not incremented, so the conditional statements in onRelease then don't work.

Presumably, this is something to do with executeActions not 'closing properly'.

It works fine if I press ANY other button first and then the Home button.

Any thoughts?

This is likely working as designed but without having a one-on-one look at your config, I cannot be sure.

My experience is that onHold() will not work directly immediately following a page jump (using firm/hard keys) and you must resort to using the Page Script to get this to work.

If you want to see an example of how this was done, you can download the Denon RS232 script from Philips (requires certification) and see how from the Home page, they do a Jump to a Volume page and ramp the volume based on code in the Page Script.

In their example, they setup the onRelease() for the Vol+/- widgets such that they can start a timer to determine when it is safe to go back to previous page.

Lyndel,

Thanks for your reply, which is comprehensive as ever.

In itself, the issue is minor only. My main worry was that I was doing something wrong that might be having wider effects.