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jmarshall · 2010-06-30, 00:55

Ratings will be (eventually) supported by the backend - not something your addon has to worry about.

**linuxluemmel** · 2010-06-30, 13:21

I saw somewhere inside a addon.xml a field <Licence>
Could I add this fileld to addon.xml ?
Will this field onyl be showed during installation of addon ?

**linuxluemmel** · 2010-06-30, 15:56

Is there a xbmc python function witch gives me the full path to my data-container ?
Or should I use the $HOME as base for my own function ?
Regards
Hans

ppic · 2010-06-30, 16:18

os.getcwd() returns the path where py the file is executed.

theuni · 2010-06-30, 18:32

FYI, preliminary info for setting up a 3rd party repo can be found here. Feel free to ask if anything is unclear.

A guide for submitting addons to the official xbmc.org repo is coming up next.

TheUni

**linuxluemmel** · (This post was last modified: 2010-06-30, 20:05 by linuxluemmel.)

ppic Wrote:os.getcwd() returns the path where py the file is executed.

Yes .. But I asked for a function that will return the complet path to the settings ...
this would be easyer than as example ...

os.getcwd + "/../../userdata/addon_data/script-video-ripper"

or this

os.getenv("HOME") + "/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/script-video-ripper"

Regards
Hans

ppic · 2010-06-30, 20:05

linuxluemmel Wrote:Yes .. But I asked for a function that will return the complet path to the settings ...
this would be easyer than as example ...

os.getcwd + "/../../userdata/addon_data/script-video-ripper"

Regards
Hans

sorry but i don't understand what's your need

**linuxluemmel** · 2010-06-30, 20:09

ppic Wrote:sorry but i don't understand what's your need

I do store a few things inside the userdata directory for my addon.
IMHO the settings Manager could give the full path.

**spiff** · 2010-06-30, 20:16

special://profile/addon_data/<id>

ppic · 2010-06-30, 20:18

settings are supported, what do you want to store?
are you talking about xbmc userdata directrory ?
wouldn't it be simpliest to use a cache directory in your script?

jmarshall · 2010-07-01, 01:24

You can use getAddonInfo("profile") I think it is to grab the path to your addon_data folder.

Cheers,
Jonathan

**linuxluemmel** · 2010-07-01, 02:34

jmarshall Wrote:You can use getAddonInfo("profile") I think it is to grab the path to your addon_data folder.

Thank you ;-) I guess this was the searched one ..
Regards Hans

**spiff** · 2010-07-01, 02:58

ppic Wrote:settings are supported, what do you want to store?
are you talking about xbmc userdata directrory ?
wouldn't it be simpliest to use a cache directory in your script?

this would be a rejection reason if you want shit in the official repo. never write to the add-on dir (it may very well be in a read-only path)

**linuxluemmel** · 2010-07-01, 08:13

spiff Wrote:this would be a rejection reason if you want shit in the official repo. never write to the add-on dir (it may very well be in a read-only path)

Inside my addon I do only write to the data-dir. I do not write anything into addon directory.
A little example :
I have a shell-script witch do transcode ... and should give feedback to a gui-function. You can find the shell-script here

Code:
http://code.google.com/p/swiss-army-knife/source/browse/trunk/shell-linux/blueray-transcode.sh

Ant the api I have written here.

Code:
http://code.google.com/p/swiss-army-knife/wiki/API

I only use small files ... So I guess I can use without any fear the data-dir of the addon ?

**spiff** · 2010-07-02, 11:02

no. again, store data in special://profile/addon_data/<id>. you CANNOT assume that the main add-on dir is writable. e.g. somebody bundles your add-on with an installer - it goes to /usr/share/ on linux - nonwritable by mere mortals.