[Mr.T]

Hi,

Can anyone let me know how to use g_windowManager.ActivateWindow to call a window (say MyPVRInclude.xml) from C++ side?

We need a window ID to call but when I gave a existing ID it didn't work.

[ironic_monkey]

you have to add an offset to the window id, see WindowIDs.h or thereabout.

[Mr.T]

Hi ironic_monkey,

Thanks for the reply.

I could not find WindowIDs.h. Is it key.h ? The one that has Window IDs? Anyways how can I call my own window (defined in my skin) from C++ side?

[ironic_monkey]

it's in guilib, sitting alongside Key.h https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...indowIDs.h

according to that file you add 11100 to your window id.

[Mr.T]

My window ID is 32. Hence wrote like this:

if (!g_windowManager.IsWindowActive(11132))
g_windowManager.ActivateWindow(11132);

But it didn't work.

[Mr.T]

Hi,

I was able to get this done by this.

Write this in C++:

CBuiltins *pBuiltin = new CBuiltins();
pBuiltin->Execute("XBMC.RunScript(/storage/.xbmc/addons/script.showlivetvsettings/default.py)");

Let the python script do the rest:

This is what the python script is doing:

import xbmcgui
import os


window = xbmcgui.WindowXMLDialog('MyPVR.xml', os.getcwd(), 'LCARS', 'PAL')
window.doModal()
del window

[ironic_monkey]

then it all makes sense. that window ain't instanced until you run that script, so the window manager won't find it.