[antrrax]

I want to group some controls to a ControlGroup, so I can display and hide them.
How do I do this?
thanks

Code:

import xbmc, xbmcplugin, xbmcgui, xbmc, xbmcaddon

class TestWindow(xbmcgui.WindowDialog):
    def __init__(self):
        background = xbmcgui.ControlImage(120, 40, 1040, 600, 'ContentPanel.png')
        self.addControl(background)
        
        self.btnClose = xbmcgui.ControlButton(1083, 54, 64, 32, '', noFocusTexture='DialogCloseButton.png', focusTexture='DialogCloseButton-focus.png')
        self.addControl(self.btnClose)
        
        # I want to group these controls in grpinfo =============================
        #===========================================================
        self.grpinfo = xbmcgui.ControlGroup(400, 70, 520, 400)
        self.addControl(self.grpinfo)
        
        self.lbl_0 = xbmcgui.ControlLabel(414, 110, 157, 40, 'Hello World 0', alignment=0x00000001)
        self.addControl(self.lbl_0)

        self.lbl_1 = xbmcgui.ControlLabel(414, 150, 157, 40, 'Hello World 1', alignment=0x00000001)
        self.addControl(self.lbl_1)
        #===========================================================
        #===========================================================
        
        self.btnHide = xbmcgui.ControlButton(310, 580, 160, 40, 'Hide group', alignment=0x00000006, font='font12')
        self.addControl(self.btnHide)
        
        self.btnView = xbmcgui.ControlButton(560, 580, 160, 40, 'View group', alignment=0x00000006, font='font12')
        self.addControl(self.btnView)
        
    def onControl(self, control):
        if control == self.btnClose:
            self.close()
            
        if control == self.btnHide:
            self.grpinfo.setVisible(False)
            
        if control == self.btnView:
            self.grpinfo.setVisible(True)
            
addon_url = sys.argv[0]
addon_id = int(sys.argv[1])
paramstring = sys.argv[2]
if paramstring == '?test=true':
    window = TestWindow()
    window.doModal()
else:
    tester = xbmcgui.ListItem('Window test')
    url = addon_url + '?test=true'
    xbmcplugin.addDirectoryItem(addon_id, url, tester, isFolder=False)
    xbmcplugin.endOfDirectory(addon_id)

[ronie]

i don't think you can...
as far as i can see the xbmcgui.ControlGroup class is pretty useless.
besides creating one, no other methods are implemented.

[antrrax]

And what is the correct way to group components?

[ronie]

if you use the xbmcgui.WindowDialog class, there is none.

i would recommend to use the xbmcgui.WindowXMLDialog class instead and handle group controls in your skin xml file.

[Roman_V_M]

And what is the correct way to group components?

From Python perspective, there are no built-in facilities. You can either deal with controls one by one, or write some custom wrapper to deal them as a group (in your case, apply setVisible method).

Another alternative is to use a XML-based UI.

[el_Paraguayo]

I'm facing the same issue. I wanted to create a custom control to use in a grouplist control.

I had envisaged defining several different layouts as python classes with various controls (labels, butttons, images) grouped in a ControlGroup.

These custom controlgroups would then be created dynamically via a loop in my python code and added to the grouplist. Depending on the particular criteria, the loop would add different classes to the grouplist.

I'm not sure if I can do this in xml because I need different layouts for different conditions and I don't think (unless someone tells me otherwise) I can use a group control with buttons etc in a list control.

Are there any options available to me?

[el_Paraguayo]

Ah. Actually looks like you can't access grouplist via python anyway. I'll need to be more creative...

[antrrax]

I left the grouplist. The solution I used was this one:

Code:

    def __init__(self):
        # Label de informações
        self.lblstr = ['Título original:', 'País de Origem:', 'Emissora:', 'Situação:', 'Lançamento:', 'Gênero:', 'Nota TMDB:', 'Fim da temp:']
        self.ctlLabel = []
        self.ctlLabelInfo = []
        
        self.info_gap = 0
        for i in range(len(self.lblstr)):
            poxY = 80 + self.info_gap

            self.ctlLabel.append(xbmcgui.ControlLabel(414, poxY, 157, 40, self.lblstr[i], alignment=0x00000001))
            self.addControl(self.ctlLabel[i])

            self.ctlLabelInfo.append(xbmcgui.ControlLabel(585, poxY, 543, 40, ''))
            self.addControl(self.ctlLabelInfo[i])

            self.info_gap += 40
        #------------

    def addSerieInfo(self, listInfo):
        for i in range(len(listInfo)):
            if i == 0:
                self.ctlLabelInfo[i].setLabel('[COLOR gold]' + listInfo[i] + '[/COLOR]')
                
            elif i == len(listInfo)-1:
                self.ctlLabelInfo[i].setLabel('[COLOR blue]' + listInfo[i] + '[/COLOR]')
                
            else:
                self.ctlLabelInfo[i].setLabel(listInfo[i])

    def onControl(self, control):
        if control == self.lstBtn[5]:
            if self.lstBtn[5].getLabel() == 'Elenco' :
                for i in range(len(self.ctlLabel)):
                    if i > 0 :
                        self.ctlLabelInfo[i].setVisible(False)
                        self.ctlLabel[i].setVisible(False)

[el_Paraguayo]

Thanks. What's the class that this code belongs to?

[el_Paraguayo]

What I'd like to do is create some "widgets" (essentially a group of controls that i can add to a grouplist).

While I could define the layout of such a control in xml, I don't think there's a way to let me reuse that layout multiple times.

The alternative is to use a list control as i can define the itemlayout in xml but I don't think that you can use buttons on a list item.

[antrrax]

This is all my add-on code:
All code is inside a single file 'addon.py' - [kodi 16]
It's a little messy, I do not know if you'll understand.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/qqblbzfnte...esplay.zip

Look for this class:
'Class winInfos (xbmcgui.WindowDialog):'

The function
'def getinfo (url, title):'
calls the class

[el_Paraguayo]

OK. A WindowDialog isn't going to work for my needs. I'll keep playing around.

[el_Paraguayo]

Maybe I was overthinking this. Easiest way may just be to have a separate control outside of the list and then have it look up the active item when the button is clicked.

I've got a basic idea working so I'll go with that for now.