[RELEASE] Random and last items smartplaylist script for Skins
(2014-02-11, 16:50)mikebzh44 Wrote: Function _timeTook is for calculating script running time. So nothing to do with watched / unwatched.

For example, look at _getMovies function. line 105, we use Files.GetDirectories function with playlist (xsp file) as argument to retrieve movies from the playlist.
And you can compare this function to _fetch_movies from service.skin.widget.

In service.skin.widget, line 165, JSON query can be reduce because you only need to get LIMIT latest movies ("limits": {"end": %d}), as statistics for standard library (Total number of movies, Number of movies watched, unwatched) are given by XBMC.

But for my script, I cannot use "limits": {"end": %d} because even if you just want the last 10 movies from your playlist, I have to submit query on the entire smart playlist in order to calculate how many movies you get, how many movies are watched / unwatched. By puting "limits": {"end": %d} in JSON query, your statistics will be wrong as the total number of movies will be equal to 10 (depend on skin parameter).

So, if you want to speed up the script you have to look at service.skin.widget function and add limits to JSON queries.

@Martijn : Does this script can be replace by this new feature from Gotham :

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1612262

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=176864

Sorry but I don't understand very well BigNoid answer and I don't know if this script won't be required any more for populating widgets in Gotham.

Thanks.

Hmm.. So you're saying i should use skin widgets..
I read skin widgets wiki and kinda confused,
Can i use it the same way as your script?
With your script i can create Latest Action Movie, High Rated Sci-fi movies, etc

I use Ace skin, and i need to populate the main screen with those..
Ace's thread says it supports skin widgets, so does that mean it's already implemented?

Looks like Ace is still using your script

https://github.com/CutSickAss/skin.ace.v...p/Home.xml


So... if i want to change the method to skin widgets,
does that mean i'm gonna have to rewrite the majority of Ace's code? Confused
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