[flav]

Hi,

I am trying to create a simple window addon using this tutorial.
The problem is that instead of having any sort of window i get a black screen with a progress popup indicating "Loading directory 0 elements".
Whenever I try to define an onAction method, the debug log shows that the script throws an exception in Window.onAction (making it impossible to close)

For info here is my test code:

Code:

import sys
import xbmc, xbmcgui, xbmcplugin

#get actioncodes from keymap.xml
ACTION_PREVIOUS_MENU = 10

class MyClass(xbmcgui.Window):
  def onAction(self, action):
    if action == ACTION_PREVIOUS_MENU:
      self.close()
      
mydisplay = MyClass()
mydisplay.doModal()
del mydisplay

And here is the result:



I guess the xmlgui library has changed since this tutorial was made.
It would help me alot of someone could provide / point me at a simple example of opening a smple window addon that can be closed.


Many thanks

[jmarshall]

Your doing a script, not a plugin. Check your addon.xml to ensure you're extending the correct extension point.

[vikjon0]

You should look in one of the live add-ons instead.
I started with the debug log add-on. It has a simple GUI and the structure is good making it easy to pull-out the non-gui stuff and put in your own pay-load.
When that is rolling you should be able to put in the stuff from the tutorial.

A few show cases would be nice, the gui components are pretty advanced and some of the existing add-ons is not that easy to read.

[flav]

Thanks for the answers guys,

My problem was indeed caused by the wrong extension point.

I'm currently looking at the debug log add-on, it seems to use an xml file for the gui layout. Is it the way to go for supporting different screen resolutions ?

Thanks!

[jmarshall]

Ideally, yes.