[mikeSiLVO]

@MikeS,

you could put this in your keyboard.xml in userdata/keymaps and assign to which ever key you want if not F5

Code:

<keymap>
    <global>
        <keyboard>
            <F5>XBMC.ReloadSkin()</F5>
            <F6>Skin.ToggleSetting(DebugGrid)</F6>
            <F7>Skin.ToggleSetting(HideDebugInfo)</F7>
        </keyboard>
    </global>
</keymap>

You just press F5 then to reload the skin, very good for testing most changes, some don't seem to take affect with a full restat i.e. adding an addon

Mike.

The way it looks to me is that once set at startup you need to have code added elsewhere to alter the code by resetting the first run bool, just for debugging purposes, the changes will not take effect until the next startup resets them. At least in my admittedly brief experience playing with the skin, the only quick way I found to alter those settings without adding or changing too much code or deleting your guisettings file is to reset that bool on startup. Try changing line 791 to <onload>Skin.Reset(firstrun4.0)</onload> and line 760 to <onload>Skin.SetString(font_mainmenu,FFEB9E17)</onload> it should make the main menu font red when you restart. These settings are set as default so when you reload the skin those settings are already in the guisettings so they "shouldn't" change.