[wyrm]

I was doing some code checking and now I think that we could even drop $VAR and just reuse $INFO for skin variables as well.

pieh,

That was kind of the point that I was trying to make in my previous post. If you really get down to it a skin string is just a persistent (value of variable survives a reboot due to being written into guisettings.xml) string variable. Although I don't think we could re-write your code example with a skin string as it stands at the moment, that was the general idea of what I thought you were purposing to do with skin variables.

Also agree with Jezz_x if you use $INFO, $VAR etc it would make it VERY clear what is going on in the code.

Guess the real question is "What do we want skin variable to do?"

For me I think being able to build up location strings for accessing media content (fanart, posters, banners, TV theme music files etc). Keeping track of how many times something has been accessed or displayed or whatever. Really would love to be able to do stuff like Jezz_x's $CALC example. And my example of changing what the <onclick> for a button does. So instead of "ActivateWindow(Videos,tvshowtitles,return)" I could change the variable to read "ActivateWindow(Videos,tvshowgenres,return)" and have my TV button in my home screen start in genres instead of titles. Another one that would be a lot easier would be changing the image shown for OSD repeat button (none, one, all). Two images easy, three gets harder and it just goes down hill from there.

Point is if you are going to the trouble of doing this, make it a worthwhile change, then stand back and watch what we can do with this.

Wyrm (xTV-SAF)