[wisdomsprince]

Hi All,

I'm new to xbmc development. I have gotten the code, compiled it but when i run it I am getting an error. It seems to be while trying to read the English/strings.xml file.

It looks for filepecial://xbmc/language/English/strings.xml

My question is, how does xbmc convert the special protocol into actual local directories/file locations?

Please point me in the right direction as I haven't been able to find anything on this. The wiki page only states that there is indeed a "special" protocol that allows xbmc to function more independent of the OS

Thanks in advance

[spiff]

FileSpecialProtocol / SpecialDirectory (both which calls SpecialProtocol).

[wisdomsprince]

Thanks I got it, I found where it is looking for the files but as of yet I don't see the it's configurable. I'll keep looking but at least now I got the code running through my IDE on windows.

I'll start another thread for my ubuntu question as that had a seperate problem on the make build


Thanks again

[spiff]

point is the loading code just loads using the special path. it's then translated in FileSpecialProtocol, which proxies to the correct file implementation (in this case FileHD)