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Tuesday December 27, 2005

Start writing apps for Tivo in NetBeans; updates for HME 1.4 I gave my wife a Tivo box Christmas. And I got a new toy to play with....

One of the first things I did was look for how to hac... create applications for... it. And there was a ton of resources about it.

Some of the folks associated with NetBeans have an article about developing Tivo application using NetBeans. Unfortunately, it seems like the Tivo HME team is a bit more liberal about API evolution than the NetBeans team.

I had to use the following code to create the app that Tim Boudreau blogged back in February, 2005.

package tivotest;
import com.tivo.hme.sdk.Application;
import com.tivo.hme.interfaces.IContext;
import com.tivo.hme.sim.Simulator;
import java.awt.Color;

public class Main extends Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            Simulator.main(new String[] {Main.class.getName()});
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            System.out.println("I don't know what to do!!!");
        }
    }

     public void init(IContext context) {
         getRoot().setResource(createText("default-36-bold.font",
            Color.white, "Hello from an application!"));
    }

}

The bigggest changes between Tim's code and this:

1. import of IContext.
2. catch the Exception in main().
3. use of getRoot() instead of a direct reference to root (which became a private member of Application).