2015-10-06, 15:46
(2015-10-06, 14:51)BobCratchett Wrote: Set grouping=widget - that will show the same options as when using GUI 312 (along with the behaviour where, for example, the script won't ask whether to play/display a playlist). All of the options there should return a list property usable as a widget... (Just as the example in your post above should be usable)
Thanks, yes that made the selection focused on the available widgets. The example I gave above does work, however there is a similar one for unwatched movies that did not work. However with the grouping set to widget all seems to be good. Cheers.
(2015-10-06, 14:52)marcelveldt Wrote:(2015-10-06, 14:49)im85288 Wrote: Ah yes I did misunderstand, I tried again and it does not reveal all of the smart shortcuts widgets etc and the data set in the skinList is not always useable directly in a widget.
For example this was returned when selecting the All titles for movies:
Code:library://video/movies/titles.xml/
It's a shame it is not supported as I could see it as a useful function, anyway thanks for helping
That should be usable in a widget ;-)
Yeah, it's not completely compatible, the best way is to use the widgets method in the shortcuts dialog.
As for your use case where you want to have some widgets not attached to the mainmenu: You are aware of the possibility that you can have multiple groups/menus beiing handled by the script ?
Take a look at Titan, in the netflix home I use a fake list to assign the widgets in the rows...
EDIT: Also look at Bobs comment, you can indeed use the widget grouping...
Thanks, yes the widget grouping was what I was missing. Hopefully I am using most of the features correctly. For each menu item I allow multiple widgets which are all handled by the management dialog. It was only for a couple of widgets that I have which are not attached/associated with a menu that I wanted to re-use the available widgets from the script.
On a related note, when there are multiple widgets for a menu item I sometimes notice the old data being shown when switching menus. For example lets say the Movies menu has 2 widgets using the propertys widget and widget1, and TV Shows has 2 widgets also using the properties widget and widget1. If I navigate from Movies to TV Shows I will sometimes see the data from Movies in TV Shows for a second or two whilst it refreshes. Is this a known issue and down to slower hardware (problem is not so noticeable on more powerful devices) or should I be clearing the property values when navigating the menu? Thanks.