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Window manager - bartsidee - 2011-05-12
Is there a python function in xbmc or has maybe anyone created a class that resembles a window/stack manager. I'm busy with a skin addon and I'm trying to manage the use of gui windows.
I want to reuse the window xml with new content/updated list to get an menu like effect. I can set this up by calling a new window from within class of the current window. On menu/return I just close the current window which will return the user to the previous window. So far so good.
But what if I wanted more advanced function, for example:
My user is in current gui 6, with stack:
Gui 1-> Gui2 -> Gui3 -> Gui4 -> Gui5 -> Gui6
It wants directly to Gui2. I have to close gui6,gui5,gui4 and gui3 simultaneously.
Another situation:
My user is in Gui6 but wants to clear Gui1 -Gui5, making gui6 first in line/stack...
Any ideas how to create such a stack control? or maybe some location where I get some inspiration to construct it?
I think I need to somehow pass the window instances in a list when opening a new window, as such a can control the close property of those windows.
- jmarshall - 2011-05-13
XBMC's window manager acts pretty much how you suggest. We have a window history stack, and when you go to a window, it checks the stack and if we find the window we're going to in the history, we clear all history from that window onwards, leaving id 1 and id 2 only on the stack in your example above. This applies to windows only, not dialogs.
Thus, I'm not sure whether you'll actually need to do anything?
- bartsidee - 2011-05-13
Thanks jmarshall,
Is it possible to point me to some example code or reference projects that act in simular situation? Might be helpfull.
- jmarshall - 2011-05-15
You can have a look at the stack in GUIWindowManager.cpp if that will be of any help?