2017-07-26, 22:39
Hi,
I was wondering if someone can help me.
I am trying to develop a test addon, for myself and today I have run in to an issue, that I just cant seem to overcome.
Essentially, my issue relates to the loader displayed when kodi tries to load the contents of a selected directory item.
I have set up my kodi addon today, to start using xbmcgui.DialogProgress(), when loading the contents of a particular selected directory item within my addon, which works fine and as wanted.
Basically, after implementing this "xbmcgui.DialogProgress()", which allowed me to set a more personalised loader menu, showing relevant info of the contents being loaded, and also allowing any user to know that the code is still executing when time.sleep() has been activated, and finally the cancel button also allowed me to set it up as an option to break the loop, and allow a user to continue seeing what has already been loaded.
Unfortunately, after testing it several times, now a weird issue seems to occur, which is basically when i open the relevant directory, the progress bar shows as expected, however, it shows in the background, due to the default kodi 17 loader (The spinning circle shown in the middle of the screen) being overlayed over it.
This is annoying because the default kodi loader, creates a transparent layer, which dms the visibility of other things in the background, and also because it is in the middle it also covers some of the progress bar info. Additionally, if I need to cancel out of the loader, I am forced to press escape or backspace now, to get rid of the default kodi loader and then once again either press backspace, escape or "The Cancel Button" on the displaying Dialog progress bar to take it off the screen.
I have checked several places online and my code for displaying the progressbar is not the issue, but cant seem to finad any solution on getting rid of the default kodi loader and making it just display "xbmcgui.DialogProgress()" progressbar instead, if anyone can recommend what maybe the cause and how to solve it, I would really appreciate it.
Currently, I feel its just a bug on Kodi 17, maybe just my Kodi 17 setup, and therefore I will later try to test it on a different device to confirm and update this post later.
Sorry for the long explanation, I have tried my best to inform what my issue is, however if you still require more information please dont hesitate to ask.
Many Thanks.
I was wondering if someone can help me.
I am trying to develop a test addon, for myself and today I have run in to an issue, that I just cant seem to overcome.
Essentially, my issue relates to the loader displayed when kodi tries to load the contents of a selected directory item.
I have set up my kodi addon today, to start using xbmcgui.DialogProgress(), when loading the contents of a particular selected directory item within my addon, which works fine and as wanted.
Basically, after implementing this "xbmcgui.DialogProgress()", which allowed me to set a more personalised loader menu, showing relevant info of the contents being loaded, and also allowing any user to know that the code is still executing when time.sleep() has been activated, and finally the cancel button also allowed me to set it up as an option to break the loop, and allow a user to continue seeing what has already been loaded.
Unfortunately, after testing it several times, now a weird issue seems to occur, which is basically when i open the relevant directory, the progress bar shows as expected, however, it shows in the background, due to the default kodi 17 loader (The spinning circle shown in the middle of the screen) being overlayed over it.
This is annoying because the default kodi loader, creates a transparent layer, which dms the visibility of other things in the background, and also because it is in the middle it also covers some of the progress bar info. Additionally, if I need to cancel out of the loader, I am forced to press escape or backspace now, to get rid of the default kodi loader and then once again either press backspace, escape or "The Cancel Button" on the displaying Dialog progress bar to take it off the screen.
I have checked several places online and my code for displaying the progressbar is not the issue, but cant seem to finad any solution on getting rid of the default kodi loader and making it just display "xbmcgui.DialogProgress()" progressbar instead, if anyone can recommend what maybe the cause and how to solve it, I would really appreciate it.
Currently, I feel its just a bug on Kodi 17, maybe just my Kodi 17 setup, and therefore I will later try to test it on a different device to confirm and update this post later.
Sorry for the long explanation, I have tried my best to inform what my issue is, however if you still require more information please dont hesitate to ask.
Many Thanks.