[el_Paraguayo]

On to my next issue...

My script has a WindowXML class. The xml file defines a List control with an id of 50 e.g.

Code:

<control type="list" id="50">

The control is hidden by default but can have its visibility toggled by pressing a key on the remote (which sets a window property).

My issue is that I can't get the control to focus when it becomes visible.

I've tried using:

Code:

self.setFocusId(50)

and

Code:

listbox = self.getControl(50)
self.setControl(listbox)

and neither is working (although 'listbox' is correctly set as the ControlList object).

I've tried debugging by printing the ID of the focussed control after the above lines and it confirms that the control does not have focus.

Am I doing something stupid?

[ronie]

Code:

listbox = self.getControl(50)
self.setControl(listbox)

i assume that's a typo and not the actual python code you're using?

does your addon fill the list with content or is that done in xml?
does your addon toggle the visibility or is that done in xml?

[User 342716]

You could try:

PHP Code:

xbmc.executebuiltin('Control.SetFocus(%d, %d)' % (50, 0));
xbmc.executebuiltin('Control.Move(50, 0)');
self.getControl(50).selectItem(0); 


And just default the selection to index 0

[el_Paraguayo]

Code:

listbox = self.getControl(50)
self.setControl(listbox)

i assume that's a typo and not the actual python code you're using?

does your addon fill the list with content or is that done in xml?
does your addon toggle the visibility or is that done in xml?

Ha. Yes, typo. Last line is meant to be setFocus.

Content is provided via python. XML has conditional visibility with the python code setting the relevant Window property.

[el_Paraguayo]

You could try:

PHP Code:

xbmc.executebuiltin('Control.SetFocus(%d, %d)' % (50, 0));
xbmc.executebuiltin('Control.Move(50, 0)');
self.getControl(50).selectItem(0); 


And just default the selection to index 0

I can try that. But that seems an odd solution. Does that mean setFocus is broken in WindowXML? Seems unlikely.

[ronie]

[XML has conditional visibility with the python code setting the relevant Window property.

perhaps that's a problem...
can you focus the list if you remove the visible condition in your xml file?

in case that does work, you can use either setVisible() or setVisibleCondition()
to control the visibility in python.

[el_Paraguayo]

I can add that to my list of things to try!

Thank you.

[el_Paraguayo]

[XML has conditional visibility with the python code setting the relevant Window property.

perhaps that's a problem...
can you focus the list if you remove the visible condition in your xml file?

in case that does work, you can use either setVisible() or setVisibleCondition()
to control the visibility in python.

Good shout, Ronie.

Using setVisibleCondition works here.

The weird little quirk now is that I have to press up a couple of times before it will let me scroll up or down in the list. That's quite minor compared to the list not working at all.

[el_Paraguayo]

[XML has conditional visibility with the python code setting the relevant Window property.

perhaps that's a problem...
can you focus the list if you remove the visible condition in your xml file?

in case that does work, you can use either setVisible() or setVisibleCondition()
to control the visibility in python.

Good shout, Ronie.

Using setVisibleCondition works here.

The weird little quirk now is that I have to press up a couple of times before it will let me scroll up or down in the list. That's quite minor compared to the list not working at all.

I've managed to work out what the problem was. The setFocus wasn't actually working. I looked in the logs and I saw:

Code:

Control 50 in window 13000 has been asked to focus, but it can't

I needed to press up a few times so the control focus moved from a button to the list.

I then tried binding the setFocus to a different key to the one that toggled the visibility and that worked. So the problem was the setFocus command was happening too soon. Adding a small delay after triggering visibility fixed this.