[jastorino]

i have just started using python and i am trying to use the controlbutton widget. i noticed that when i add a button, it doesn't look like a button, it simply looks like a label blending into the background until i select it, at which time it looks like a button.

i am simply using "controlbutton(posx, posy, sizex, sizey, font)"

can someone suggest the right way of making the button visible when not selected?

also, i noticed in this post that there were changes made to python and added to cvs as recent as april 6th, but the only version i found in cvs is approx 2 months old (ver 1.3).
is that the latest up to date version?

thanks for your help.

[No0ne]

your default button color is probably the same as your background color therefore it blends in possibly.

[madtw]

have you tried supplying a focus texture and a no focus texture? here is the relevant info from the python_readme.txt.

xbmcgui.controlbutton(int x, int y, int width, int height[, string text, string texturefocus, string texture nofocus])

the texturefocus and texturenofocus parameters will probably need to be full paths to the texture files unless you are reusing the textures in texture.xpr (i.e. q:\skin\mediacenter\media\buttonfocus.png). you can call xbmc.getskindir() instead of hard coding "mediacenter" in the path if you like...