Setup guide

Multi-Layout Commands

A layout is a container for one or more actions. The actions contained in a layout get executed one after the

other whenever a command was received from the remote control.

Multi-Layout Commands offer the ability to assign multiple action sets to a single command. Each layout is

independent from other layouts, only the actions contained in the currently active layout get executed.

Setting the currently active layout can either be done manually using the Layout Selector from the On-Screen

Menu, or automatically after the associated command has been received by adding a Switch Layout action to the

command's layouts.

Automatic layout switching is useful to define toggling or even multi-state commands. As an example, think of a

command with three layouts. Each layout has one action to carry out a specific application function, and an

additional Switch Layout action to set the active layout to the next one automatically. The third layout's Switch

Layout action sets to active layout to the first one again. The result is a tri-state command:

Layouts can also be used to provide action sets for different application modes. The preconfigured application

preset for Internet Explorer makes use of this functionality:

This pictures shows the Favourites command, which

toggles Internet Explorer's Favourites toolbar.

IE requires different actions to navigate through the

favourite shortcuts and browse a webpage location.

The Favourites command switches the complete

application preset between the two modes:

The first time the Favourites command gets

executed, IE's Favourites toolbar opens and the

Switch Layout action instructs uICE to switch all

commands of the preset to their second layout.

For this to work, Switch all command layouts

simultaneously must be enabled for the

application preset, and all commands within the

preset must have two layouts.