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Is there anyway to use a <visible> based on what font has been selected in Settings > Appearance > Skin > Font?

I'm guessing not, but thought I would throw the question out there.

I took the RSS feed (in Home.xml) in Confluense (that has Fontsets) and tried a load of combinations just in case and none worked, just for the kicks, as I cant imagine a way with the listed infolabels or other.

I used this boolean with id=Arial and XXX=Fonts/Font/Fontset (without cap also)

Skin.HasXXX(id)

Skin.HasSetting(id) / Skin.HasSetting(XXX,id)

SubString(XXX,id)

System.XXX.id


The problem is I don't really know how the "conditions are set" in XBMC, if there has to be an explicit instruction for the "tag" or you can probably use a "condition tag" in combination with an "instructuion tag" and i missing the "tag" for Fontset. Don't know squat about programming per se, so don't mind my words if I don't make sense or I'm rumbling nonsense.



Not very helpful post, I know.

stoli Wrote:Is there anyway to use a <visible> based on what font has been selected in Settings > Appearance > Skin > Font?

I'm guessing not, but thought I would throw the question out there.

I would guess you can use lookandfeel.font from guisettings.xml, not sure how though. I tried using conditionals based on what shutdown action was set, but couldn't figure it out. The wiki page for infolabels says:

Quote:System.GetBool(boolean)
Returns the value of any standard system boolean setting. Will not work with settings in advancedsettings.xml

but since my value wasn't a boolean that didn't work, and neither is lookandfeel.font ... it works for lookandfeel.enablerssfeeds though, but that is a boolean so.

And, AFAIK, there's only Skin.HasSetting() so ... anyone with more insight?

Already tried the GetBool when I see it in the condition for the RSS, didn't knew about the guisettings.xml, anyway didn`t work in any variation.

filigran Wrote:but since my value wasn't a boolean that didn't work, and neither is lookandfeel.font ... it works for lookandfeel.enablerssfeeds though, but that is a boolean so.

Where do you get that enablerssfeeds is a boolean? and font isn't? Because neither are listed as such, the only difference is one is a variable with 2 (false or true) options and the other is infinite. The only thing I can think off why this might not work is because the rssfeed is set (input) through the xbmc engine and the font is an option (input) read from the files of the skin and the system.getbool instruction doesn't really look in the guisettings. Fuck I hate being so freaking clueless and don't have time to learn Phyton or XBMC "engine" if that's what is needed.


From the guisettings.xml I get that no matter what variable I try it always returns false or empty, but don't know if this is relevant or that lines there are a mistake of my own:


And from Debug i get this with every variation:


Tried changing the Font id as it is in cap and no luck, tried every variation that I could think off and no luck.

So I don´t know, logic tells me it should work, but...

KiSUAN Wrote:Already tried the GetBool when I see it in the condition for the RSS, didn't knew about the guisettings.xml, anyway didn`t work in any variation.



Where do you get that enablerssfeeds is a boolean? and font isn't?

Well, in my guisettings.xml I have this for enablerssfeeds:
While the font is a string:
A boolean = true or false, 0 or 1 etc. Hence, system.getbool cannot fetch the value (which to me makes it odd that it's an infolabel, and not a builtin function, anyhoo...) of <font>. There should be a System.GetString. Found this when googling a bit: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=282705 - not much activity on the ticket: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/5894

But atleast someone else requested the same thing.

Ok, thanks, I´ll move on as it seems impossible.