[Croneter]

I'm at a loss. While developing PlexKodiConnect, if I use show() like this:

python:


class TestWindow(xbmcgui.Window):

    def onAction(self, action):

        LOG.debug('onAction: %s', action)



window = TestWindow()

window.show()

time.sleep(10)

window.close()

any key presses are NOT captured by the add-on.

On the other hand, using doModal() works as expected:

python:


class TestWindow(xbmcgui.Window):

    def onAction(self, action):

        LOG.debug('onAction: %s', action)



window = TestWindow()

window.doModal()

and key presses are all logged. 

I'm trying to re-write some code from Plex for Kodi, where show() works just fine. What am I missing?

Edit: Link to working show(): Plex for Kodi

[Roman_V_M]

This is expected behavior. show() only displays a window without starting the event loop so no UI events like key presses or mouse clicks are being caught .

[Croneter]

OK, thanks. The Kodi documentation is not clear on this.

Must have overlooked some implementation detail with Plex for Kodi - because they managed to make it work, somehow

[Roman_V_M]

Must have overlooked some implementation detail with Plex for Kodi - because they managed to make it work, somehow

It is possible only if a secondary window (displayed with .show() ) is controlled by a primary modal window that receives all UI events. This primary window might not have any visible elements but still it must be started with .doModal(). No modal - no UI events: plain and simple.

[Croneter]

Must have overlooked some implementation detail with Plex for Kodi - because they managed to make it work, somehow

It is possible only if a secondary window (displayed with .show() ) is controlled by a primary modal window that receives all UI events. This primary window might not have any visible elements but still it must be started with .doModal(). No modal - no UI events: plain and simple.  

This works! 

For anyone still having issues: the background .doModal() dialog CANNOT be put to sleep with 

python:
time.sleep(0.1)

. You need to make sure to use 

python:
xbmc.sleep(100)

. Took me ages to pin that one down