2016-03-09, 01:28
This is a simple example of a .properties file:-
The first column is the group - in your case, if you want to change the location for a main menu item, look for "mainmenu". The second represents the individual item, based on its label (what the script calls the labelID). The third is the property name, and the fourth is the value.
So, if I wanted to change the 'background' property (which is the path to the background associated with the menu item) for my Weather menu item on the main menu, I'd edit the fourth column of the first row. The 'backgroundName' property is just the name of the background, if the skin wants to display it, and isn't used to determine which image is shown.
If you have edited the relevant line in your own .properties file to the special protocol path and the background now isn't showing either the background isn't where you've specified, or you've made a mistake whilst editing so that Skin Shortcuts can't correctly parse the file. Unfortunately, neither are issues that I can assist with.
Code:
[['mainmenu', 'weather', 'background', u'/Users/bobC/Pictures/stock_pictures/file0001.jpg'],
['mainmenu', 'weather', 'backgroundName', u'/Users/bobC/Pictures/stock_pictures/file0001.jpg'],
['mainmenu', 'weather', 'icon', 'special://skin/extras/icons/DefaultAddonWeather.png']]
The first column is the group - in your case, if you want to change the location for a main menu item, look for "mainmenu". The second represents the individual item, based on its label (what the script calls the labelID). The third is the property name, and the fourth is the value.
So, if I wanted to change the 'background' property (which is the path to the background associated with the menu item) for my Weather menu item on the main menu, I'd edit the fourth column of the first row. The 'backgroundName' property is just the name of the background, if the skin wants to display it, and isn't used to determine which image is shown.
If you have edited the relevant line in your own .properties file to the special protocol path and the background now isn't showing either the background isn't where you've specified, or you've made a mistake whilst editing so that Skin Shortcuts can't correctly parse the file. Unfortunately, neither are issues that I can assist with.