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**ronie** · (This post was last modified: 2014-03-11, 22:21 by ronie.)

Below you'll find an up-to-date list of all changes made to the skinning engine since the release of XBMC Frodo.

New control positioning method

control positioning (details)

Containers

option to get content from directories (details)
add support for auto-scrolling in containers (details)

DialogPVRChannelsOSD.xml

navigation change (details)

DialogProgress.xml

use a textbox instead of separate labels (details)

DialogSubtitles.xml

add a manual search button (details)

DialogOK.xml

use a textbox instead of separate labels (details)

DialogYesNo.xml

use a textbox instead of separate labels (details)

MyVideoNav.xml

remove flatten button (details)
remove stack button (details)

SettingsCategory.xml

settingslevelchange button (details)
settings description textbox (details)

SettingsProfile.xml

auto login support (details)

SmartPlaylistEditor.xml

grouping support (details)

Context menu

'update library' and 'now playing' removed (details)

Label control

add support for <width>auto</width> (details)
use addon.id instead of SCRIPTXXX (details)

Label parsing

add support for $NUMBER[] in labels (details)

Button & Edit control

add support for <invalidcolor> (details)

Radiobutton control

add separate radio textures for focused/unfocused states (details)

Textbox control

add support for auto height (details)

EPGGrid control

new texture: progresstexture (details)

Textures

add support for colordiffuse attribute (details)
additional aspect-ratio flags (details)
additional resolution flag (details)

New Infolabels

ListItem.Votes (details)
ListItem.Picturedate (details)
ListItem.Picturelongdatetime (details)
ListItem.Picturelongdate (details)
ListItem.Pictureauthor (details)
ListItem.Picturebyline (details)
ListItem.Picturebylinetitle (details)
ListItem.Picturecategory (details)
ListItem.Pictureccdwidth (details)
ListItem.Picturecity (details)
ListItem.Pictureurgency (details)
ListItem.Picturecopyrightnotice (details)
ListItem.Picturecountry (details)
ListItem.Picturecountrycode (details)
ListItem.Picturecredit (details)
ListItem.Pictureiptcdate (details)
ListItem.Picturedigitalzoom (details)
ListItem.Pictureexposure (details)
ListItem.Pictureexposurebias (details)
ListItem.Pictureflashused (details)
ListItem.Pictureheadline (details)
ListItem.Picturecolour (details)
ListItem.Picturelightsource (details)
ListItem.Picturemeteringmode (details)
ListItem.Pictureobjectname (details)
ListItem.Pictureorientation (details)
ListItem.Pictureprocess (details)
ListItem.Picturereferenceservice (details)
ListItem.Picturesource (details)
ListItem.Picturespecialinstructions (details)
ListItem.Picturestate (details)
ListItem.Picturesupplementalcategories (details)
ListItem.Picturetransmissionreference (details)
ListItem.Picturewhitebalance (details)
ListItem.Pictureimagetype (details)
ListItem.Picturesublocation (details)
ListItem.Pictureiptctime (details)
ListItem.StereoscopicMode (details)
Player.FileName (details)
System.StartupWindow (details)
System.ProfileAutoLogin (details)
System.AddonVersion() (details)
System.StereoscopicMode (details)
VideoPlayer.Votes (details)
VideoPlayer.AudioLanguage (details)
VideoPlayer.SubtitlesLanguage (details)
VideoPlayer.StereoscopicMode (details)
Window(Weather).Property(WeatherProviderLogo) (details)

Changed infolabels

Add parameter support to Playlist.* infolabels (details)

Removed Infolabels

Network.SubnetAddress (details)

New info bools

ListItem.IsStereoscopic (details)
Slideshow.IsVideo (details)
System.Platform(linux.raspberrypi) (details)
VideoPlayer.IsStereoscopic (details)

New built-in functions

ReplaceWindowAndFocus (details)
ActivateScreensaver (details)
NextStereoMode (details)
PreviousStereoMode (details)
ToggleStereoMode (details)
StereoMode (details)
StereoModeToMono (details)
SetStereoMode (details)

New window

DialogSubtitles.xml (details)

xbmc.gui version bump

5.0.1 (details)

use of correct XML headers

All XML files should have correct headers to avoid parsing overhead. (details)

Add support for artwork in lists with directory content

Use directories to provide list content (details)
Including artwork. (details)

Please keep this thread clean. It should be an easy overview for skinners who are updating their skin for Gotham.
For discussions / feature requests / bugreports, please find (or create) the appropriate thread in the skin development forum.

**ronie** · (This post was last modified: 2013-03-10, 03:22 by ronie.)

Changes to the skinning engine for XBMC Frodo

Changes to the skinning engine for XBMC Eden

Changes to the skinning engine for XBMC Dharma

**ronie** · 2013-03-10, 03:27

2013-03-10 Navigation change in DialogPVRChannelsOSD.xml

You should now use PreviousChannelGroup and NextChannelGroup to switch between channel groups.

git commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/80ef...a85e719055
pull request: 2246 (GH issue)

Jezz_X · 2013-03-11, 06:22

(2013-03-10, 03:27)ronie Wrote: 2013-03-10 Navigation change in DialogPVRChannelsOSD.xml

You should now use PreviousChannelGroup and NextChannelGroup to switch between channel groups.

git commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/80ef...a85e719055
pull request: 2246 (GH issue)

I would like to point out this is purely optional. The reason it was changed is because it was hard coded into the window C++ now it as it should be an option, if you don't want your channel groups switching when you go left and right and instead want to assign it to a button or not have it at all you can do that too.

I'd class this more as a warning that the default behavior has changed and if you want, here is how to get it back

phil65 · 2013-04-05, 14:34

Added ListItem.Votes and VideoPlayer.Votes

Pull Request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/2297
commit: https://github.com/phil65/xbmc/commit/c5...cd535edf6c

**ronie** · (This post was last modified: 2013-04-06, 13:32 by ronie.)

2013-04-06 Change to auto width for labels

using <width>auto</width> is now also supported.
this means specifying 'max=xx' is now optional.

git commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/996c...06c20e8d37
pull request: 2023 (PR)
trac ticket: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/13887

**ronie** · 2013-04-06, 13:40

2013-04-06 Always load Startup.xml

instead of ReplaceWindow(Home) skinners should now use
ReplaceWindow($INFO[System.StartupWindow]) in Startup.xml

this is to ensure XBMC will always process Startup.xml on start.
this didn't work previously if the user had selected a custom startup window in
settings > appearance > startup window

git commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/d27d...0ee933f415
pull request: 2022 (PR)
trac ticket: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/13445

phil65 · (This post was last modified: 2013-04-06, 20:10 by phil65.)

2013-04-06 Added ReplaceWindowAndFocus() builtin

allows to use ReplaceWindowAndFocus in same way as ActivateWindowAndFocus()

git commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/0366...1600ef1385
pull request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/2186

**ronie** · 2013-04-11, 18:49

2013-04-08 New infolabels

new picture infolabels, available both as listitem.* as well as slideshow.*

listitem.picturedate
listitem.picturelongdatetime
listitem.picturelongdate
listitem.pictureauthor
listitem.picturebyline
listitem.picturebylinetitle
listitem.picturecategory
listitem.pictureccdwidth
listitem.picturecity
listitem.pictureurgency
listitem.picturecopyrightnotice
listitem.picturecountry
listitem.picturecountrycode
listitem.picturecredit
listitem.pictureiptcdate
listitem.picturedigitalzoom
listitem.pictureexposure
listitem.pictureexposurebias
listitem.pictureflashused
listitem.pictureheadline
listitem.picturecolour
listitem.picturelightsource
listitem.picturemeteringmode
listitem.pictureobjectname
listitem.pictureorientation
listitem.pictureprocess
listitem.picturereferenceservice
listitem.picturesource
listitem.picturespecialinstructions
listitem.picturestate
listitem.picturesupplementalcategories
listitem.picturetransmissionreference
listitem.picturewhitebalance
listitem.pictureimagetype
listitem.picturesublocation
listitem.pictureiptctime

git commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/1e21...3285748c85
pull request: 2494 (PR)
forum thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=158723

**ronie** · (This post was last modified: 2013-04-11, 18:53 by ronie.)

2013-04-08 New infobool

Slideshow.IsVideo

can be used to detect if the picture slideshow is playing a video

git commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/d18d...4a2b8d20a4
pull request: 2565 (PR)

**ronie** · (This post was last modified: 2013-04-11, 19:14 by ronie.)

2013-04-08 Grouping support in SmartPlaylistEditor.xml

adds support for grouping in SmartPlaylistEditor.xml

spincontrolex id="23" (Group by)
radiobutton id="24" (Mixed)

git commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/ec5c...33d7f145bf
pull request: 2182 (PR)

**ronie** · (This post was last modified: 2013-04-11, 19:14 by ronie.)

2013-04-09 Auto login support in SettingsProfile.xml

adds autologin support to SettingsProfile.xml

button id="5" (autologin)

this also introduces a new infolabel:

system.profileautologin

returns the name of the profile set to autologin

git commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/f9f4...c2f6b2a255
pull request: 2577 (PR)
forum thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=162069

**ronie** · (This post was last modified: 2013-04-21, 11:40 by ronie.)

2013-03-27 Codec info linebreaks in VideoFullScreen.xml

in some situations, the codec info lines displayed by XBMC were too long to fit on screen.
in order to address this, line breaks have been added to the codec lines represented by label controls 10 and 11.

you may have to update your skin for this.

for examples, see http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=162859

git commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/16c7...4ff896c466
pull request: 2498 (PR)

jmarshall · (This post was last modified: 2013-04-21, 07:05 by jmarshall.)

The change to the videodb:// and musicdb:// paths will have implications if you're using the old style paths (videodb://1/2 for example) to do string compares and the like.

They're now done using more useful videodb://movies/titles/ etc. See PR2182 for more.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Sranshaft · 2013-04-22, 01:18

(2013-04-21, 07:05)jmarshall Wrote: The change to the videodb:// and musicdb:// paths will have implications if you're using the old style paths (videodb://1/2 for example) to do string compares and the like.

They're now done using more useful videodb://movies/titles/ etc. See PR2182 for more.

Cheers,
Jonathan

Does this apply to entering Movies and TV Show library via the Video menu? At the moment I have to use StringCompare(Container.FolderPath,videodb://1/) | StringCompare(Container.FolderPath,library://video/movies/) to check if the user is in the root Movie menu. The first StringCompare is if the user entered the Movie root via the home menu item and the second compare via Videos > Movies.