[KidKiwi]

Hello,

I've been working on a small tweak to help me understand some skinning techniques. I've managed to get everything I want sorted except for automatically closing a window after a set (adjustable??) time period. Is this possible??

Here's the deal...I have been using a slide animation to open the window on a key press, but I want the window to auto close after a set time. I looked at the "loop" function of animation, but this is the one thing I haven't been able to suss. Any help much appreciated. Thx

[ronie]

there may be other tricks, but this is the only one i ever came across:

Code:

<window id="1111">
    <defaultcontrol always="true">100</defaultcontrol>
    <controls>
        <control type="button" id="100">
            <posx>-100</posx>
            <posy>-100</posy>
            <width>1</width>
            <height>1</height>
            <onfocus>PreviousMenu</onfocus>
            <animation effect="fade" end="100" delay="5000">Focus</animation>
        </control>
    </controls>
</window>

[KidKiwi]

Hey Ronie - Thx alot for the help.

Unfortunately, I've tried to install this code every way I can think - without any luck. Do I need all of it?

Here is the code for my window. I've borrowed it from another skin, so I don't know what default control 603 is

Your code is for a button, whereas my code below is just an info window, so I'm confused as to how this works.

Code:

<window type="dialog" id="309">
    <defaultcontrol always="true">603</defaultcontrol>
    <controls>

<!--Movies-->

        <control type="group">
        <posx>880</posx>
        <posy>06</posy>
                <visible>VideoPlayer.Content(Movies)</visible>
            <animation effect="slide" start="880,0" time="200" >WindowOpen</animation>
            <animation effect="slide" end="1080,0" time="400">WindowClose</animation>
        <control type="image">
            <width>380</width>
            <height>86</height>
            <aspectratio>stretch</aspectratio>
            <texture border="40">simplicity/infoscreen-popup.png</texture>
        </control>

<---More controls--->

You can see the slide animation for windowopen and windowclosed, but I'd like to replace the windowclosed part with the timed slide out (to auto close). So were should I put your code.

Thx again.

[KidKiwi]

I came back to it fresh today and suddenly it worked first time. Dont' figure I think I had to many <control(s)> in the mix. I used only this part...with the defaultcontrol set to 100.

Code:

<control type="button" id="100">
            <posx>-100</posx>
            <posy>-100</posy>
            <width>1</width>
            <height>1</height>
            <onfocus>PreviousMenu</onfocus>
            <animation effect="fade" end="100" delay="5000">Focus</animation>
        </control>

Thx for the help.