HOW TO: Creating Viewer Layouts for MovieRecorder

In MovieRecorder, we offer a few viewer layouts that you can pick from the following menu:

If you need a layout that is not provided, you can customize a new one.

Sample files?

It's a little bit tricky, but attached are some samples that you can use.

First make sure to modify the UniqueID of the layout, to make sure it does not have a conflict with an existing one:

Where to store the modified files?

Then modify the layouts, and place the files in this folder:

/Library/Application Support/Softron/MovieRecorder/ViewerLayouts/

We will automatically "draw" the icon and place it in the appropriate menu.

How does the syntax work?

The syntax works like a grid and you have to create one array per line. Each number represents the number of "cells" that the viewer will take. 

For example if you want to create 3 lines of 2 viewers each, you would do this:

    <array>

        <array>

            <integer>1</integer>

            <integer>1</integer>

        </array>

        <array>

            <integer>1</integer>

            <integer>1</integer>

        </array>

        <array>

            <integer>1</integer>

            <integer>1</integer>

        </array>

    </array>

And it would look like this:

If you want to create some viewers with different sizes, you will have to change the numbers. For example to create one big viewer on top, and then 2 lines of 2 viewer each, you would do this:

    <array>

        <array>

            <integer>2</integer>

        </array>

        <array>

            <integer>1</integer>

            <integer>1</integer>

        </array>

        <array>

            <integer>1</integer>

            <integer>1</integer>

        </array>

    </array>

As you can see, the first line says that the viewer should use 2 cell view:

Note that the gaps are automatically filled, so you can do this kind of things:

    <array>

        <array>

            <integer>2</integer>

            <integer>1</integer>

        </array>

        <array>

            <integer>1</integer>

        </array>

        <array>

            <integer>1</integer>

            <integer>1</integer>

            <integer>1</integer>

        </array>

    </array>

For the following layout:

It can get trickier, for example this one:

    <array>

        <array>

            <integer>3</integer>

            <integer>3</integer>

        </array>

        <array>

            <integer>0</integer>

        </array>

        <array>

            <integer>0</integer>

        </array>

        <array>

            <integer>2</integer>

            <integer>2</integer>

            <integer>2</integer>

        </array>

        <array>

            <integer>0</integer>

        </array>

        <array>

            <integer>2</integer>

            <integer>2</integer>

            <integer>2</integer>

        </array>

    </array>

Is to create the following layout: