[SleepyP]

there are a couple of places in my skinning project which i ran into where i really "need" to be able to do conditional visiblity based on if a skin setting string has specific values or not, not just non-empty.

i am still mr n00b, so i haven't even been able to figure out where to look in the cvs for the code for functions such as this. as a result, i'm not sure if what i am asking for here is a little work or a lot.

it seems like it would require only some minor work, just a logic fork for cases when a value to be checked against is supplied in the arguments, and within that fork a call to whatever is available in the language being used to write xbmc (some flavor of c?) has in terms of a string comparison function. i am assuming there are functions like this already available in the string class or whatever?

[Nuka1195]

look in guicontrolfactory.cpp or search for visibilty.

good luck.

[SleepyP]

i started looking around and found a few things:
-xbmc is written in c++ (?)
-the functions i want/need to modify seem to be in utils\guiinfomanager.cpp, since this seems to correspond almost directly with the stuff found on the conditional visiblity docs in the online manual.
-i really have pnly the most basic grasp of the syntax of c++. the only thing i know which is similair is java, but its been a while since i did anything with that. maybe time to pull out some books

[SleepyP]

heh, i have no idea how to pursue this one

[SleepyP]

at this point i can't continue adding functions to my skin until i get this feature, as i am out of variables. without this feature, i am using approximately 72 boolean variables, where i could be using like 9 string variables if i had the ability to check for specific strings.
any help/suggestions?

[spiff]

uhm, did i forget to commit this?

i'll do so tonight.

[SleepyP]

oh, i wasn't aware anyone was even working on this. i'm very grateful as always for your assistance i will let you know how it works out
i am assuming usage is skin.hassetting(settingname,value to check against)?

[SleepyP]

that last post has a typo, meant to say skin.string(setting, value to check against). i am watching the changelog like a hawk, this hasn't made it in yet will it show up in the changelog when submitted, spiff?

[spiff]

- 04-07-2006 changed: speed improvements on all skin setting retrieval. removed not completely working skin.comparestring() and replaced with skin.string(name,value) to do comparisons. also extended skin.setbool(name,value) to take true or false as a parameter.

with some jm magic its finally done.

[SleepyP]

you are both like superheroes of code