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Disable top menu in Music -> Albums view - neufena - 2016-10-14

hi,

I'm using Kodi 14 with the Rapier skin on an old laptop and touchscreen as a listening post for a record shop. so far I have it all set up how I want except for one thing, Is there a way to totally disable the top menu on the albums view? It's currently set to auto hide but I would really like it to not appear even if someone moves the cursor/touches near the top of the screen.

I'm a programmer so happy to edit the skin if needed but am new to Kodi skins and not sure where to start.

Thanks,


RE: Disable top menu in Music -> Albums view - Gade - 2016-10-14

Hi neufena.

Sounds really great that you are using this skin for a record shop. Can you post some images, as I'm pretty curious? Wink


Sorry, there's no way to permanently hide the top options menubar. There's only the option to hide it (and show it when focused).
Kiosk mode will disable certain buttons in the menubar.


If you'd like to edit the xml's, open up includes_MenuBar.xml. I assume you have enabled kiosk mode in the skin settings.
Find the include "MediaMenuBar".
Add
Code:
<visible>!Skin.HasSetting(EnableKioskMode)</visible>
on a new line somewhere within the group.
That's it.


If you edit the xml's, your changes are overwritten the next time the skin is updated. And I hightly recommend keeping the skin updated at all times.
And I also recommend updating to Jarvis or Krypton beta, as the skin changes are huge. Smile


RE: Disable top menu in Music -> Albums view - neufena - 2016-10-14

Fantastic that works perfectly!

I'd love to upgrade but to make my life easier I decided to go with OpenElec and they seem to have dropped support for 32 processors in the more recent version. Once it's in the shop I'm hoping to not need to update it except changing the music.

It's far for perfect but a nice little project using parts that were otherwise going to be thrown away. I've not got time to take photos right now but will update this thread with some when I get a chance.


RE: Disable top menu in Music -> Albums view - Gade - 2016-10-14

Sounds great!

The thing is that Rapier for Kodi 14 is deprecated (for some time now), meaning that bugfixes, stability fixes and new features added for Kodi 15, 16 and 17 will not get included in the Kodi 14 version.

Music section has also been greatly improved since Kodi 14.

But I totally get what you're saying Wink

Looking forward to seeing pictures, once you get the time.