[craigr]

"Extendedinfo Script" not working?

Hi, many thanks for an update of ScopeNox, I tried it and seems to work great. Can be possible that the "Extendedinfo Script"
doesn't work? Or it depends on my config?

Many Thanks

BR Massimo

The situation with the ExtendedInfo script is somewhat complicated.  The sort answer is that the version of this script we have been using with this skin for years does not work with Kodi 19 (Matrix).  At this time I think the safest bet, and what I'd recommend to anyone who is not comfortable tweaking this stuff, is uninstall the current ExtendedInfo script, assuming you already have it installed.  If the script is installed the skin will try to use it and will fail resulting in undesired results.  This is what is causing the issue craigr described above.  If the script is not installed then the skin does not try to use it and does not produce that issue.

Longer answer...
The ExtendedInfo script has been forked 77 times and at least one of these forks (https://github.com/scott967/script.extendedinfo) does work on Matrix.  However this version requires another add on by the same author, https://github.com/scott967/script.module.kodi65.  There is an issue with the only release of this second add on that will throw an error when run in the skin and not produce the expected results.  There are updates to the code for this add on since the release and these updates appear to fix the error but they have not been packaged for release so I don't know how wise it might be to try and use them.  These updates are in the branch labeled Matrix.

I have installed the updated add on and as already indicated it does appear to work.  That being said there are some quirks using ExtendedInfo with this skin.  Some of these I'm sure are due to coding in the skin; I've already found and fixed a very minor one of these (unpublished so far).  Others may be be in the script and/or how the skin interacts with it (I probably won't be able to address these).  Another issue is that some screens entirety generated by the script are designed with a 16:9 aspect ratio (I definitely won't be fixing these).  

The choice is yours on whether you want to try it or not.

So I uninstalled the old ExtendedInfo script and of course you are correct.  The skin no longer skips over the actor's images and profiles, so it works perfectly now for me without the ExtendedInfo script (how on earth did you figure out that bug was from the addon?).  Note to others; it's not enough just to disable the ExtendedInfo script, you must uninstall it to fix the actor image bug.

I did install the addons for the Matrix ExtendedInfo script and its dependency that you linked to, and again like you said the skin throws an error.  I looked at the log after that and there is a lot in there.  Unfortunately, I don't have time to try and sort all that out at the moment, so I'll be running without the ExtendedInfo script for the time being.

Thanks again for all you're doing!

craigr