[braz]

Running Kodi Jarvis here and trying to add player controls to the sidebar. The player controls are in a grouplist positioned below the sidebar menu grouplist. They work as intended, but I'm having a problem achieving the navigation that I would like. I'll try to explain using code snippets, you can find the full code at https://github.com/bryanbrazil/skin.mimic

In MyVideoNav.xml, etc, I'm using something like this, where my sidebar menu is 9050 with a portion of it in the MediaMenuTop include. The player controls are in a second grouplist include.

Code:

<control type="grouplist" id="9050">
     <include>MediaMenuTop</include>
     ...additional controls
</control>
<include>MenuPlayerControls</include>

MediaMenuTop contains, among other things, the following (the player controls grouplist has id 6050):

Code:

<onup condition="Player.HasMedia">6050</onup>
<onup>9050</onup>
<ondown condition="Player.HasMedia">6050</ondown>
<ondown>9050</ondown>

The Player.HasMedia condition isn't being evaluated, though, I'm assuming because includes are only evaluated when they are first loaded? If I refresh the skin after playing media, then it works as intended. Otherwise it will just cycle through 9050.

I've tried several different configurations, but no luck. I took a look at reFocus, which correctly implements player controls in the sidebar using includes. Not sure why it works there but not here.

I know it's not currently possible, but would using a variable in this case solve this problem? Something like <onup>$VAR[foo]</onup> so that it is evaluated on the fly?

Thanks for taking a look, I welcome all suggestions.

[braz]

Hmm, think I'm figuring this out, need to put the player controls grouplist inside the menu grouplist.

Update: Yeah, that took care of it. Used params for onup/ondown so I could set them to different controls for the various sidebar menus.