[Zootoxin]

Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen,

There are a few things I would love to add to my XBMC and I am hoping they are possible to achieve with the help of you brainiacs.

1. How do I configure a keyboard letter to open the favorites menu?

2. Is it possible to configure a keyboard combo to open a specific add-on?
(lets say the TVCatchup addon for examples sake)

3.I have a Stand-up folder and a Manga folder that I exclude from the library.
Is it possible to have an entry on the home screen to open each folder directly?
Kinda of like another library?
I.e. Music <> Pictures <> Movies <> TV <> Stand Up <> Manga <> Settings

Thanks in advance for helping.

[jhsrennie]

For 1 and 2 you need to create your own key mapping file. The easiest way to do it is to grab KeyMapEdit from http://xbmcmce.sourceforge.net/. The action to open the Favourites is:

Code:

ActivateWindow(favourites)

To open an add-on you need to find out exactly what the required action is. The easiest way to do this is to add the add-on to the Favourites then have a look at the favourites.xml file. For example if I add the YouTube add-on to my favourites then open favourites.xml using:

notepad "%appdata%\xbmc\userdata\favourites.xml"

Then I see:

Code:

<favourite name="YouTube" thumb="..">ActivateWindow(10024,&quot;plugin://plugin.video.youtube/&quot;)</favourite>

so the action I need to map to a key is:

Code:

ActivateWindow(10024,"plugin://plugin.video.youtube/")

See http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Mod...yboard.xml for background info on modifying keymaps.

JR

[Zootoxin]

Thanks jhsrennie, I'll try to fumble through.

Any idea on 3
Even if its possible?

[Hitcher]

Add those folders to your Favourites, open your favourites.xml (userdata folder), look at the ActivateWindow part and copy it to the home entry you want (obviously skin dependant).

[Zootoxin]

Thanks Hitcher.

By any chance do you know which skins support this.
Sorry to be lazy but if you know off hand I may as well ask.

[Hitcher]

My skins do - Alaska Revisited and XeeBo.