[Mark_H]

I'm still battling with Kodi (that's what it feels like) to create my addon. Part of it includes a dialog (XML based) that collects an email address from the user and then calls a URL with the value entered by a user into the dialog

However, I can't for the life of me work out how I'm supposed to do this.

I've created the dialog. (XML: http://pastebin.com/CDRfDSLK)

I'm calling Skin.SetString(email) on a focus onto the edit control...

And I have a script that processes a button click (python: http://pastebin.com/D5RUShz7)

But the script can't see the Skin value ... The log file ( http://pastebin.com/x00i5E93 ) shows the lookup via

Code:

xbmc.getInfoLabel('Skin.String(email)')

showing a blank value. There's a line

Code:

20:23:34 T:9424 WARNING: CSkinInfo: failed to load skin settings

Could this be why the lookup via Skin.String returns blank?

I'm very confused about how I should process my dialog, should I be doing it some other way than the onClick(controlId) handler ? I've seen a number of different ways of getting skin values too

eg

Code:

xbmc.getInfoLabel('Skin.String(email)')
xbmc.getInfoLabel( '$INFO[Skin.string(email)]' )

Which is correct?

[ronie]

rule #1: addons should NOT set skin settings.
you can use your own addon settings for that, or use window properties to temporary store data, depending on the usecase

[Mark_H]

rule #1: addons should NOT set skin settings.
you can use your own addon settings for that, or use window properties to temporary store data, depending on the usecase

Would you be able to elaborate on that please? I have no idea how to make my dialog or python pop-up the keyboard/editor and set a window property. This add-on does not need to store the entered value at all, it only uses it to invoke a URL so I guess a window property is the way to go. How does a script (or the XML ?) do that. ?

A pointer to a current code fragment would really help if such a thing exists.

Cheers, Mark

[ronie]

you can invoke the keyboard dialog like this:
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/docs/python-docs...l#Keyboard

you can probably remove the edit control from your skin xml
and let your button handle it all:

PHP Code:

def onClick(self, controlId):
    if (controlId == 300):
        keyboard = xbmc.Keyboard( '', 'please enter your email address', False )
        keyboard.doModal()
        if ( keyboard.isConfirmed() ):
            email = keyboard.getText()
            xbmc.log("Will register '" + email + "' with unblockr")
            registerwithunblockr('D7CqmCqIpO0XwqfNzS49', email, '2')
            self.close() 


[Mark_H]

you can invoke the keyboard dialog like this:
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/docs/python-docs...l#Keyboard

you can probably remove the edit control from your skin xml
and let your button handle it all:

PHP Code:

... Code snipped 


That is the most helpful info I've encountered during my time writing this addon. Thank you very much for that, It's obvious when you know where to look and how to approach the prob. Solves the issue 'properly' and the previous methodology I was using even felt clunky.