[slinuxgeek]

Hello Friends , I am told to create a new skin which should work in two modes basic & advanced.
Basic mode will show less functionality and advanced mode will show full functionality.
Suppose user is in confluence skin now he switches to my skin from settings->appearance .....

By default first time I will show basic version of skin, now user clicks on a button called setup on the screen ,
which will display a screen to choose from basic mode or advanced mode .
choosing mode changes the visual of skin accordingly .

Do I need to write any script to achieve that ? if yes how?
or do I need to change source code of xbmc then how what & where?
or it will be so easy that can be achieved through only xml files , then how?

Please Help.
Thank You.

[phil65]

learn skinning no need for scripts. a lot of skins do this already (kiosk mode, would have to be adjusted to your needs)

[live4ever]

Check out how Aeon MQ 3 does it with its 'Lite Mode' and 'Super Mode':
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=107793

[slinuxgeek]

what is kiosk mode?

[Martijn]

what is kiosk mode?

the mode with as little options as possible. So you can use XBMC without changing most of the options in the views

[Jezz_X]

And basically its a take on word play for when you go to something like a cafe or internet Kiosk they disable all the good bits so people can't stuff it all up

[slinuxgeek]

Kiosk mode is just a theoretical term which I need to provide by the skin of less functionality or it is really there in xbmc to which I can switch by clicking on a button?

Thank You.

[Sranshaft]

No, you'll have to code it into your skin. You could do something as simple as Skin.HasSetting(IsKioskMode) and have an option in the skin setting to enable / disable it. Then, for all of the extra options you normally wouldn't want the user to be able to change (views, flatten, hide / unhide watched, etc), you would add a visible condition to each of those controls to check against Skin.HasSetting(IsKioskMode).

Something like:

Code:

<visible>!Skin.HasSetting(IsKioskMode)</visible>

[slinuxgeek]

Thanks Sranshaft , for now.
I will try , if problem will persist , I will be back.

Thank You.

[slinuxgeek]

Thanks davidh47 but it would be better if u could provide name or link of some of them to download , it would really help me alot.
Only skin name I know is aeonmq and that is kind of advanced.

Thank You.

[Sranshaft]

ReFocus by Jereon has a Kiosk mode and should be pretty easy to decipher his coding. It's nicely laid out and has easy to read include names. You'll want to take a look at the Custom_SkinSetting.xml file in particular. Do a search in that file for Kiosk; should be around the end of the page. Follow what he's done there and you'll have it working in no time.

[slinuxgeek]

Thank You !!