[ronie]

Is this one of those times where I promise it's my last question? Is it possible to have two animations? I tried adding fade as well as slide. Only one or the other works in given order.

whatever you promise, i'm not buying it. ;-p
i know how these things go... tonight, just before you doze off to sleep,
another brilliant idea of more bells and whistles you could add to your script pops up in your head.

believe me, i've been there :-)

I feel like there's a lack of documentation for some of these, or I'm missing them. I checked out xbmcgui's links and all it points me to is similar commands but it's xml for skins. The skins do support two effects at once apparently.

the python docs are available here, in case you haven't come across them:
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/docs/python-docs/

the bit you're interested in:

setAnimations(...)
setAnimations([(event, attr,)*]) -- Set's the control's animations.

[(event,attr,)*] : list - A list of tuples consisting of event and attributes pairs.
- event : string - The event to animate.
- attr : string - The whole attribute string separated by spaces.

so...give this a shot:

Code:

viewer.image.setAnimations([('conditional', 'effect=fade start=0 end=90 time=500 condition=true',), ('conditional', 'effect=slide start=0,282 end=0,0 time=500 condition=true',)]