[Mudislander]

I'm having a problem with a conditional visibility tag, so presume you cannot use a Skin.String in this way

<visible>substring(ListItem.Genre,$INFO[Skin.String(UsrDefGenre1)],Left)</visible>

I'm trying to set up some user defined genre groups eg 007Bond for such films & then get the associated icon to show up. Has anyone managed to do something similar

[Hitcher]

What does ListItem.Genre return?

[Mudislander]

It's the normal return for a movie ie Action / Adventure / Comedy + whatever genres I've added to the movie through XWMM Movie Management.

The idea is to add a genre to a movie through XWMM etc + add the genre to a user defined list (UsrDefGenre1 to 5) & then the genre is to show up in the list of movies

The whole thing works except for the boolan parsing of UsrDefGenre1.

[Hitcher]

Well you're using left so the UsrDefGenre1 must be the first genre available to ListItem.Genre. Or just remove the left condition.

[Mudislander]

Sorry I'm being a bit vague. In the first post I mentioned a genre called 007Bond, & this is the idea for a user defined genre that has been added to the movie. These would be enabled through a couple of views. Some views only show 1 genre icon & therefore the Left attribute, other views can show multiple genre icons and donot have the Left attribute.

Actually the value of UsrDefGenre1 was Action when I was testing & therefore should be true.

Here's the code

<control type="grouplist">
<visible>Control.IsVisible(729)</visible>
<description>Media Genre Flagging</description>
<posx>325</posx>
<posy>515</posy>
<width>625</width>
<align>right</align>
<itemgap>0</itemgap>
<orientation>horizontal</orientation>
<include>MultiMiniUsrDefGenre</include>
</control>

<include name="MultiMiniUsrDefGenre">
<control type="image">
<include>MultiGenreFlag</include>
<texture background="true" fallback="MovieUnknown.png">special://skin/icons/moviegenre/$INFO[Skin.String(UsrDefGenre1)].png</texture>
<visible>substring(ListItem.Genre,$INFO[Skin.String(UsrDefGenre1)])</visible>
</control>
<control type="image">
<include>MultiGenreFlag</include>
<texture background="true" fallback="MovieUnknown.png">special://skin/icons/moviegenre/$INFO[Skin.String(UsrDefGenre2)].png</texture>
<visible>substring(ListItem.Genre,$INFO[Skin.String(UsrDefGenre2)])</visible>
</control>

<!-- Upto 5 images -->

</include>
<include name="MultiGenreFlag">
<width>125</width>
<height>125</height>
<aspectratio aligny="bottom">keep</aspectratio>
<fadetime>IconCrossfadeTime</fadetime>
</include>

[pieh]

please see my comment in http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=110592

[`Black]

Maybe it's working without $INFO[] just like it's working for ListItem.

[Mudislander]

Thanks Guys

@`Black, I've tried removing the $INFO[] & still doesn't work.

@pieh Looking at your comment

"You can use $INFO but there is a catch: if You are using $INFO it will just convert $INFO[whatever here] to constant string when window is loading and will always compare to that constant string"

I'm happy for it to be a constant it's a Skin.String(label). IMO it should work.

Hard codeing the genre Action works - <visible>SubString(ListItem.Genre,Action)</visible>

Setting the word Action as a language string works - <visible>substring(ListItem.Genre,$LOCALIZE[35300])</visible>

I've even checked guisettings.xml and the Skin.String(label) is there <setting type="string" name="skin.convergence.usrdefgenre1">Action</setting>

[pieh]

right, I missread problem - can You provide me some sample to reproduce it?

[Mudislander]

Sure - I have to go back to work soon, but will whip up something simple for Confluence later tonight or tomorrow am.

[`Black]

I have not the same but a similar problem. Inside a container I use

$INFO[Skin.String(MusicGenres.Path)]$INFO[ListItem.Label,,.jpg]

for a texture. The string is set to "musicgenres/" but only the fallback is shown. If I use

musicgenres/$INFO[ListItem.Label,,.jpg]

it's working. Maybe a bug with Skin.String infolabel?

[pieh]

oh, using non ListItem $INFO might not work inside of container - will need to check that, but I think I remember something similiar issue now

[Mudislander]

pieh - if you still want a sample, Try adding below to ViewsAddonInfoBrowser.xml & make sure you have the first video submenu addon enabled, I used youtube.

Sorry this was a bit of a rush as a Rugby game got in the way & now I'm late for work, but should work

PHP Code:

<!--################################################# 
Confluence ViewsAddonBrowser.xml AddonInfoListView1 Line 241
-->
                
<!--control type="textbox">
    <description>Description</description>
    <posx>10</posx>
    <posy>100</posy>
    <width>490</width>
    <height>180</height>
    <font>font12</font>
    <align>justify</align>
    <textcolor>white</textcolor>
    <label>$INFO[ListItem.Property(Addon.Description)]</label>
    <autoscroll time="2000" delay="3000" repeat="5000">Skin.HasSetting(AutoScroll)</autoscroll>
    </control-->

<control type="label">
    <posx>-600</posx>
    <posy>120</posy>
    <width>950</width>
    <height>30</height>
    <font>font14caps_title</font>
    <textcolor>white</textcolor>
    <label>( $INFO[ListItem.Label] ) Checking  for - $INFO[Skin.String(HomeVideosButton1)]</label>
</control>                
<control type="label">
    <posx>-600</posx>
    <posy>140</posy>
    <width>950</width>
    <height>60</height>
    <font>font50caps_title</font>
    <textcolor>yellow</textcolor>
    <label>FOUND - $INFO[ListItem.Label]</label>
    <visible>SubString(ListItem.Label,$INFO[Skin.String(HomeVideosButton1)])</visible>
</control>            
<control type="label">
    <posx>-600</posx>
    <posy>140</posy>
    <width>950</width>
    <height>60</height>
    <font>font50caps_title</font>
    <textcolor>blue</textcolor>
    <label>NOT FOUND - $INFO[Skin.String(HomeVideosButton1)]</label>
    <visible>!SubString(ListItem.Label,$INFO[Skin.String(HomeVideosButton1)])</visible>
</control>
<!-- ####################################################### --> 


Edit Too much of a hurry & on my way to work realised above code will never return true, would have to search for

$INFO[system.addontitle(Skin.String(HomeVideosButton1))]