[Urhos]

Hello all,

I recently upgraded to Windows 8 on my HTPC and I love the way the tiles look on my tv. I also found a great xbmc skin that matches the windows 8 metro style ( http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=138997 ) .I want to make a "movies" tile on my start screen and have it go straight to my list of movies in xbmc (bypassing the xbmc home screen). Then I could make start screen tiles for television and games. I found a program that lets you create tiles: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthre...?t=1899865. Oblytiles lets you launch .exe files and assign program arguments to the program. Is there a way to make xbmc open and go straight to my movies directory (or tv, or games)? I found the following list of functions (below), but I'm not sure if they will be useful in what I want to do.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Lis..._functions
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Ope...nd_Dialogs

I have spent a few hours trying to get this to work, but I haven't found anything out yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Jalapeno0]

Bump as I think this is a great idea. Anyone have any suggestions?
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[baijuxavior]

You can try this:

1. Create an autohotkey script to start xbmc. Wait a few seconds for xbmc to initialize and then send the shortcut key for your movie library.
2. Create another script for TV show.
3. Compile scripts to make exe file and pin to start.

A rough code will be:

Code:

run, C:\program files\xbmc\xbmc.exe ; start xbmc
sleep 2000; wait 2 seconds
Send ^M ; send shortcut CTRL+M to show movies assuming it is the shortcut to your movie library.