2017-10-15, 13:37
(2017-10-15, 07:32)jurialmunkey Wrote: 1. It really depends. The skin creates a sort of template container that defines the layout of the content (e.g. positioning and size of image and label controls, and animations etc.). So the skin basically defines where everything goes on the screen -- e.g. what textures/info/artwork will be shown at what coordinates and what size (I'm simplifying but this the basic idea). The skin uses info labels which are filled by Kodi relating to each different item in the list container -- e.g. the skin will use ListItem.Art(poster) in an image control and Kodi will fill the infolabel with the path to the appropriate poster artwork for each item in the list, or say ListItem.Genre which is a text string that kodi fills with all the genres for that particular item and so on. Kodi fills all these different info labels based upon whatever the content is for that particular widget container -- So it might be from the library database if it is a smart playlist or library path (which is saved from data pulled from online websites like imdb or themoviedb). Or it might come from an add-on like Skin Helper Widgets or Youtube -- in this case, the addon tells Kodi how to fill all the info labels. Does that make sense?yes, it makes perfect sense, in fact it also serves as a great reminder that i don't know what the hell i'm doing when i make edits, ha ha... nonetheless, thank you very much for taking the time to explain, i find this stuff very interesting and hope to be able to roll up my sleeves when time permits and really learn it.
"jurialmunkey Wrote:2. There isn't really a way in this skin to define sort order. I do have sort order options in Horizon, but it was a lot of work getting it to work correctly and at the moment I'm really busy so I don't have time to port those features over to fuse.was afraid of that... i've looked around in py files and the databases using sqlite but didn't across anything that looked, to my untrained eyes, that it would do the trick, doesn't seem like it would be such a tough edit/fix, assuming your weren't interested in creating a context menu toggle that would give you different options, but instead a file edit that you wanted to just set once.
"jurialmunkey Wrote:3. You might need to make a menu item for it in skin settings > home customisation dialog. The skin uses skin shortcuts addon, so the menus are shared with other skins and are fully customisable, so it is possible that things get moved around rather than being in the default place.thanks for the suggestion, i'll give it a try.
"jurialmunkey Wrote:4. Sort order shouldn't be overridden. Double check that the smart playlist is sorting correctly when you open it in the library.will do, thanks!
a couple of more items for you or the group:
1. what is the "force native appearance" setting in the extendedinfo dialog supposed to do? i never used it with estuary so i don't know, doesn't seem to do anything with fuse.
2. are flags supposed to appear to the far right on the extendedinfo infobar or infobar sublabel as they do in dialogvideoinfo / library views? the area is blank/empty when i view extended info.
3. in "videos > default set action" i have it set to "show information" which is what i want, i.e. when i select a movie poster i want info to display, and it does.... but from the info screen when i select the play button i just want the movie to play from beginning, i don't want to be prompted whether i want to resume it or start from the beginning, how can i make this happen?
again, thanks very much!
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