2015-08-19, 14:54
My addon provides a "search" feature and its content is like:
- New Search
- Clear Search History
When clicking "New Search", the keyboard pops up and users can enter queries, e.g., The Matrix, and then see a list of search results in a new "page".
From this search results page, when users click the "back" button in Kodi, I want the content now to include this new search query, for example:
- New Search
- Clear Search History
- The Matrix (<- I want to show the query just being searched)
My python code of generating this search menu is like:
The problem is that after hitting the "back" button from the search results page, Kodi seems to display the cached listing of the parent directory instead of re-running my addon again. Without running my addon, the query just being searched won't appear like I expected.
How can I modify my code so that the search menu will be "refreshed" with the newly searched query when I hit the back button from the search result page?
A more general question is, what is the behavior of Kodi's back button? Does it simply display cached listing of the parent directory? Can it rerun an addon or refresh/update the listing of the parent directory? Thanks!
- New Search
- Clear Search History
When clicking "New Search", the keyboard pops up and users can enter queries, e.g., The Matrix, and then see a list of search results in a new "page".
From this search results page, when users click the "back" button in Kodi, I want the content now to include this new search query, for example:
- New Search
- Clear Search History
- The Matrix (<- I want to show the query just being searched)
My python code of generating this search menu is like:
Code:
xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItem('New Search' ...)
xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItem('Clear Search History' ...)
for item in local_search_history_cache:
xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItem(item ...)
xbmcplugin.endOfDirectory(...)The problem is that after hitting the "back" button from the search results page, Kodi seems to display the cached listing of the parent directory instead of re-running my addon again. Without running my addon, the query just being searched won't appear like I expected.
How can I modify my code so that the search menu will be "refreshed" with the newly searched query when I hit the back button from the search result page?
A more general question is, what is the behavior of Kodi's back button? Does it simply display cached listing of the parent directory? Can it rerun an addon or refresh/update the listing of the parent directory? Thanks!
