2018-11-12, 00:50
Very new to working with skins and editing .xml's. Not new to Kodi, been using if for 4 years now. Thought it was about time to create my own build. Installed Xonfluence for Krypton about two weeks ago and started casually changing things while doing a LOT of reading and watching YouTube videos on this skin. One of the main reasons I chose Xonfluence was that Estuary didn't have the myvideonav.xml file in it. Neither did Confluence. I'm not familiar enough with the scripting to write an xml from scratch either...
The very first thing I wanted to change was how "My Movies" and "My TV Shows" displayed their respective lists...in list mode. I wanted this done automatically every time I opened it. So with the advice from a Facebook Kodi build page, I changed <defaultcontrol always="true">50</defaultcontrol> to 732. So now I've got both those lists in thumbnail mode that I wanted them to be. I've discovered 2 issues that I would like to correct since making this change.
No matter what add-on I open when I go to My TV Shows>Collection>Chicago Med (just an example show)>Season 4... As scroll down each episode in that season I no longer see episode information after making the above change to the defaultcontrol command. I don't wish to change that back, I just need to figure out how to change the setting that would put button "view" at the top of sidebladeleft into media info mode. That button has 6 options avalible. "List", "Big List", "Thumbnail" (NOT the same thumbnail defined in myvideonav.xml!!!!), "Media info" "Media info 2" and "Media info 3".
This is a learning moment for me. I'd like to learn how the sideblade is called for this window. Then how to go to the file that defines the options within this sideblade. In this example, how and where the button titled "View:" is defined. While I can use a hand figuring this all out, I do want to learn how to modify and script within kodi. Only way I can do that is by learning...hands on. That's how I learned Basic 35+ years ago on a Commie 64 and Bash for Linux 10 years ago. Besides the official Kodi Wiki, what other resources for modding xml's is there?
The very first thing I wanted to change was how "My Movies" and "My TV Shows" displayed their respective lists...in list mode. I wanted this done automatically every time I opened it. So with the advice from a Facebook Kodi build page, I changed <defaultcontrol always="true">50</defaultcontrol> to 732. So now I've got both those lists in thumbnail mode that I wanted them to be. I've discovered 2 issues that I would like to correct since making this change.
No matter what add-on I open when I go to My TV Shows>Collection>Chicago Med (just an example show)>Season 4... As scroll down each episode in that season I no longer see episode information after making the above change to the defaultcontrol command. I don't wish to change that back, I just need to figure out how to change the setting that would put button "view" at the top of sidebladeleft into media info mode. That button has 6 options avalible. "List", "Big List", "Thumbnail" (NOT the same thumbnail defined in myvideonav.xml!!!!), "Media info" "Media info 2" and "Media info 3".
This is a learning moment for me. I'd like to learn how the sideblade is called for this window. Then how to go to the file that defines the options within this sideblade. In this example, how and where the button titled "View:" is defined. While I can use a hand figuring this all out, I do want to learn how to modify and script within kodi. Only way I can do that is by learning...hands on. That's how I learned Basic 35+ years ago on a Commie 64 and Bash for Linux 10 years ago. Besides the official Kodi Wiki, what other resources for modding xml's is there?