2017-05-18, 23:05
(2017-05-18, 11:11)pusb87 Wrote:(2017-05-18, 08:18)jurialmunkey Wrote:did you see my fairly recent post (#229) in the bug thread where i wrote(2017-05-18, 07:42)Ddmorris1971 Wrote: Noticed an update on 5/18/2017It was removed.
the option to have widgets refresh or not removed from skin settings. Did it move? If it was just cut, please consider keeping it. Great feature and I really liked having the option to set widgets to refresh.
Thanks for awesome skin
It shouldn't be necessary any more in Krypton as containers should automatically refresh when certain conditions occur.
It also causes confusion because people think that if its turned off then the widgets will never refresh which is not the case -- all it does is force the widgets to refresh every single time you enter the home screen (or if you have multiple different widgets, every time you change between widgets).
The constant refreshing puts a lot of strain on things if you use an internet based video addon (e.g. youtube) - its particularly bad for youtube, because the public api keys that ship with the youtube add-on can only handle a limited amount of requests a day and this will significantly increase those requests.
If you have problems with widgets not refreshing properly, then you can always map a key/button/menu-shortcut to the ReloadSkin() command as that will force the widgets to refresh.
"Im reluctant to call this a bug but i've read on this Kodi forum somewhere that you do not need to allow widget reloading with Kodi 17.
However, if i disable it i find that my custom backgrounds for main menu items are "randomly" changed to other pictures from elsewhere..i know not where ! "
Thanks for the quick explanation. Makes sense to me. I guess the real problem is that when it was set to refresh, the entire 1st page of an Internet widget would populate the widget however, , with it being disabled, it seems to have limited the items in the list to a smaller finite number. Perhaps unintentionally. I'm not so worried about the actual refresh but the number of movies available in the list is cut off (only in movies). TV Shows shows everything available in even a long list of TV shows. Could this be a bug?
Thanks