[BigBellyBilly]

If I have a ControlLabel defined in a skin.xml, is there way for the script to change its font and colour?

I ask as latest myTV has a skinned header (and footer) on which are a few labels. In the old version I'd just re-create the ControlLabel according to the font/colour picked via a settings menu, but as they're now skin predefined , skinning seems to remove this ability.


adding setFont and setColor to the python's ControlLabel might possibly be the only solution

any thoughts ?

BBB

[Nuka1195]

just use a button.

[BigBellyBilly]

good idea.
would the button background appear transparent if the textures were defined to be unknown files ?

[BigBellyBilly]

Following on from Nuka's suggestion, I swapped to using a ControlButton.

But, I think there may be a potential bug in the setLabel of a ControlButton, that is:
setLabel() ignores the font parameter. Label and textColor work fine.

I thought it might be because the control was defined initially from a skin, but a simple test of creating a ControlButton in a script

ie.

Code:

self.testBtn = xbmcgui.ControlButton(10, 150, 100, 30, "I AM SOME TEXT", font='font10',textColor='0xFFFFFFFF')
  self.addControl(self.testBtn)

then do

  self.testBtn.setLabel("I AM some TEXT", font='font13',textColor='0xFFFFFF33')

You can see the text and color change, but not the font size

Has anyone else come across this ?

BBB

[Nuka1195]

are you sure font10 exists, if it doesn't it falls back to font13

[BigBellyBilly]

yeah, font10 exists in PMIII.

If I set the buttons font in the skin definition to font10, thats what it starts as, changing it within script to any other has no effect.

but its the same for a button created totally in a script too.

[Nuka1195]

must be something deeper in the code, i don't see why it would fail.

[jmarshall]

It fails as we don't free and reload the font at all (anywhere) to my knowledge. I may be wrong ofcourse.

[BigBellyBilly]

So, is the idea not set font in the initial ControlButton creation, but then set it in a subsequent setLabel(). otherwise I can't see why setlabel() has font param?

Could font reloading be patched into ControlButton ?

[Nuka1195]

hey bbb, the pydocs in my signature are upto date now.