[gdomenici]

Hi,

In my video addon, I have some list items containing dynamic data -- think download progress percentage, as in for example

* Movie 1 [80% downloaded]
* Movie 2 [100% downloaded]
* Movie 3 [paused]

this kind of thing.

While it's easy to populate the initial list (with xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItem()), I would like to be able to periodically auto-refresh the list every (say) 2 seconds, so that I can update the list items with fresher data.

I have tried spawning a new background thread to do a new setLabel() on the items in question, but alas it does not seem to have any effect.

Is periodically refreshing list item labels possible? If so, how?

[Lunatixz]

No code? I'll answer accordingly... Yes, use info properties and thread timer.

[gdomenici]

Hi Lunatixz,

No code? I'll answer accordingly... Yes, use info properties and thread timer.

OK. Bear with me though. I can't post the real code as it is kind of spread across multiple classes and it would be hard to follow. But in a nutshell it does the usual stuff. Here's more or less what it does:

Code:

for oneContent in myContents:
    li = xbmcgui.ListItem(oneContent["name"])
    li.setProperty("IsPlayable", "true")
    xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItem(handle=addon_handle, url=oneContent["url"], listitem=li)
xbmcplugin.endOfDirectory(addon_handle)

So you suggest I use a thread timer. Fair enough. And "info properties". Here I need some more. Do you refer to ListItem.setInfo()? But how would I use that to change the item's label?

[Lunatixz]

Hi Lunatixz,

No code? I'll answer accordingly... Yes, use info properties and thread timer.

OK. Bear with me though. I can't post the real code as it is kind of spread across multiple classes and it would be hard to follow. But in a nutshell it does the usual stuff. Here's more or less what it does:

Code:

for oneContent in myContents:
    li = xbmcgui.ListItem(oneContent["name"])
    li.setProperty("IsPlayable", "true")
    xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItem(handle=addon_handle, url=oneContent["url"], listitem=li)
xbmcplugin.endOfDirectory(addon_handle)

So you suggest I use a thread timer. Fair enough. And "info properties". Here I need some more. Do you refer to ListItem.setInfo()? But how would I use that to change the item's label?

Just trying to understand what you want...

Going by post1 you have a label that you want to change dynamically while the plugin is open?

[Lunatixz]

semi pseudocode, simple concept, each property needs to be unique for each listitem.

Code:

Thread_Timer = threading.Timer(timer, foo)

def foo:
    for oneContent in myContents:
         setProperty(mynameis,oneContent["name"])

def bar:
             li = xbmcgui.ListItem(getProperty(mynameis))
            li.setProperty("IsPlayable", "true")
             xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItem(handle=addon_handle, url=oneContent["url"], listitem=li)

xbmcplugin.endOfDirectory(addon_handle)
xbmc.exec(refresh list)

[gdomenici]

Thanks Lunatixz -- I took part of your solution (the use of threading.Timer) but for the rest I realized I needed something a lot simpler than I'd anticipated -- just refreshing the container did the trick.

For future reference, the code I used was something along the lines of:

Code:

def populateList(self):
    for oneContent in myContents:
        li = xbmcgui.ListItem(oneContent["name"])
        li.setProperty("IsPlayable", "true")
        xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItem(handle=addon_handle, url=oneContent["url"], listitem=li)
    xbmcplugin.endOfDirectory(addon_handle)
    guiUpdateTimer = threading.Timer(
        4.0, # fire after  4 seconds
        self.refreshGuiItems)
    guiUpdateTimer.start()

def refreshGuiItems(self):
    xbmc.executebuiltin('Container.Refresh')