[SleepyP]

nuka and i discussed this a little bit over on the x-s forum. basically, now that i am screwing around with user configurable buttons, i found a bit of "missing" functionality.
we were talking about using a built in function similair to the skin.setimage() which could be used to select a python script of xbe file.
for skin.setscript(), the behavior would be nearly identical to skin.setimage, except the file display filter would only show files name *.py.

say the filepath returned by the user's input is x:\fu\bar.py.

the builtin function would return & set to the specified skin string variable "xbmc.runscript(x:\fu\bar.py)" (obviously quotes not included).

for setxbe, i figure same thing only the display filter would only show *.xbe and *.cut files, and the returned string would be xbmc.runxbe(x:\fu\bar.xbe). whatcha think?

[SleepyP]

no comments? that makes me a sad panda...

[Nuka1195]

what ev

[Nuka1195]

in the <onfocus> just the script name and path launches the script. i imagine it's the same with <onclick>.

<onfocus>q:\scripts\kaid control pad\script.py</onfocus>

not sure if i understood what you meant, but i don't think it's necessary. if i understood.

unless this functionality is going to be taken away. i thought i read something about it.

[jmarshall]

i'm proposing a change to the <onclick> and <onfocus> layout for translating skin strings.

instead of just translating directly, it will go through the same routine as <label> tags do.

this will allow (for instance):

<onclick>activatewindow(myvideos,$info[skin.string(bookmark1)])</onclick>
<onclick>runxbe($info[skin.string(xbe1)])</onclick>
<onclick>runscript($info[skin.string(script1)])</onclick>

and so on.

anyone see any issues with this?

as for the setxbe() etc. things - imo a better method is:

setfile(name,mask)

which should be easy enough to add.

cheers,
jonathan

[SleepyP]

jon, the whole thing with "setscript" was basically identical to setxbe.
however, the setfile is a much better way to go
also, as you know, i'm not mr programmer so i have no idea how easy/hard that is to do. from the design standpoint, sounds awesome. would allow for very flexible skin stuff (as in your examples).