[Mike_Doc]

Hi,

I was just wondering if views like directors could be updated i.e. a thumbnail for the director. So I took viewtype Tripanel as a starting point and know that it's ListPosterVar that generally displays say a tvshow season poster and from there I attempted to change variables.xml to include the following 2 lines within the LIstPosterVar:

<value condition="Container.Content(directors)">$INFO[ListItem.Label,special://skin/extras/directors/,.jpg]</value>
<value>$INFO[ListItem.Label,special://skin/extras/directors/,.jpg]</value>

I've found that Listitem.label is the directors name, so I attempted this by creating a directory extras/directors in the skin I'm using and then placing a jpg say for christopher nolan.

At the moment it's not working but what I'd like to know is if the syntax is sound and the idea is possible?

Have I got something wrong or is just not possible to have a thumbnail for a director when in movies > directors

Thanks

Mike.

[jurialmunkey]

Whats the full variable? The syntax and idea is sound - it might just be a problem with the order of variable conditions, or the filename case not matching perfectly.

Basically what you are doing with $INFO[ListItem.Label,special://skin/extras/directors/,.jpg] is just sticking the label between, for instance if its Christopher Nolan then it will be special://skin/extras/directors/Christopher Nolan.jpg

However, you have to match file name cases. It might be useful to use [lowercase] tags to avoid case issues. i.e.

Code:

$INFO[ListItem.Label,special://skin/extras/directors/[LOWERCASE],[/LOWERCASE].jpg]

then you can just use christopher nolan.jpg as the filename.

[Mike_Doc]

Hi jurialmunkey,

thanks for the info, I've tried the lowercase and re-positioning within the variable but no luck, will look at the viewtype incase there is a visible stopping it, would be nice if there was a way to confirm the variable is working, is there?

for reference the variable is currently:

<variable name="ListPosterVar">
<value condition="Container.Content(directors)">$INFO[ListItem.Label,special://skin/extras/directors/[LOWERCASE],[/LOWERCASE].jpg]</value>
<value>$INFO[ListItem.Label,special://skin/extras/directors/[LOWERCASE],[/LOWERCASE].jpg]</value>
<value condition="Stringcompare(ListItem.label,..)">DefaultFolderBack.png</value>
<value condition="Container.Content(genres)">$INFO[ListItem.Label,special://skin/extras/genre/video/icons/,.jpg]</value>
<value condition="!IsEmpty(ListItem.Art(poster))">$INFO[ListItem.Art(poster)]</value>
<value condition="Container.Content(episodes) + !IsEmpty(ListItem.Art(season.poster))">$INFO[ListItem.Art(season.poster)]</value>
<!-- MAD - next 2 line for season poster @ episodes level-->
<value condition="!IntegerGreaterThan(ListItem.Season,9)">$INFO[ListItem.Path]$INFO[ListItem.Season,../season0,-poster.jpg]</value>
<value>$INFO[ListItem.Path]$INFO[ListItem.Season,../season,-poster.jpg]</value>
<value condition="Container.Content(episodes)">$INFO[ListItem.Art(tvshow.poster)]</value>
<value>$INFO[ListItem.Icon]</value>
</variable>

Mike,

P.S. credit to you for the seaon poster lines they work great in the skin I'm using, I found them over the weekend searching via google and the forums in an old post and I believe it was yourself that posted those lines.

[Hitcher]

You'll need to remove the second variable otherwise none of the ones below it will work.

An easy way to see if the variable is correct is to use it in a label control.