[Mr. V]

Hi Marcel,

I having been compiling a list of the type and target property assigned to each widget. This is so I can better understand how I should set my visibility condition to limit artwork choices for each widget.

A few things I noticed;

Favourite Episodes - target="unknown"
Favourite Media - type="unknown"
My TV Shows Airing Today - type="movies"
Upcoming Movies (Rotten Tomatoes) - type="unknown"
Upcoming Movies (TMDB) - type="unknown"
Opening Movies (Rotten Tomatoes) - type="unknown"
User-Created Lists (TMDB) - type="unknown"
In Cinema Movies (Rotten Tomatoes) - type="unknown"

Also I do have a query related to two of the widget property's I am looking at.
We have widget="addon, source, library, playlists ect"
Then type="movies, episodes, albums ect"

As I understand these property's are used to help set visibility conditions in the skin.

For the type its quite self explanatory and suits the purpose.

For the widget, I do find it difficult to make use of it in visibility conditions. For example the library data provider is an addon. The widget property is set to 'addon'. So within the widget list there are around 15 selectable widgets using library data providor. The addon library data provider is getting its information from the library. So to me it would make more sense if the widget property was set to 'library' as that is where the data comes from for the widget.

I could then use a visibility condition such as;

Code:

<property property="widgetArt" condition="StringCompare(Container(211).ListItem.Property(widget),library) + StringCompare(Container(211).ListItem.Property(widgetType),movies)">ClearArt</property>

So when a movie widget from the library is selected you then see an option to select clearArt.

In its current state I need to do something like this;

Code:

<property property="widgetArt" condition="StringCompare(Container(211).ListItem.Property(widgetType),movies) + !SubString(Container(211).ListItem.Property(widgetPath),extendedinfo)">ClearArt</property>

I find this a bit messy as I have noticed some addons have there type set as movies. So in that case the option to select clearart will show in the list and the end user can select it when no art is available.

What I am suggesting is it possible to set the widget property to where the information is taken from.

I have compiled a list of every property that each widget sets. If its any help I can post a link to my excel worksheet including my suggested changes.