[PanTadeush]

Just starting on the journey in skinning - I've tried searching the forum, but couldn't see the answer to my question.

Im on Leia and skinning the Estuary.

Basically, I would like an IMDB icon to be a part of my media flags - i.e. to appear at the bottom of the screen when a movie / tv show is selected.

I am planning on doing this by altering the Includes.xml

So far, I have duplicated RatingCircle and renamed it RatingCircleBottom. I've got the rating to display just next to duration by including 

xml:
<control type="group">

<top>10</top>

<width>60</width>

<align>left</align>

<aligny>center</aligny>

<include content="RatingCircleBottom">

</include>

</control>

 in the MediaFlags section.

My next step is adding the IMDB image to the section. I have the image in my skin folder customnameskin/media/sausage/imdb.png
I tried creating another <include name="imdbicon"> and then creating another <control type="group"><include content="imdbicon"> just before the code above.

xml:
<include name="imdbicon">

        <control type="image">

            <left>3</left>

            <top>-3</top>

            <align>center</align>

            <aligny>center</aligny>

            <width>44</width>

            <height>44</height>

            <texture>sausage/imdb.png</texture>

        </control>

    </include>

However, no go.

Tried also including the imdb icon in the following way

xml:
    <include name="UserRatingContentBottom">

        `<visible>!String.IsEmpty($PARAM[infolabel])</visible>

        <control type="image">

            <left>3</left>

            <top>-3</top>

            <width>44</width>

            <height>44</height>

            <aspectratio>keep</aspectratio>

            <texture colordiffuse="button_focus">special://skin/media/sausage/imdb.png</texture>

        </control>

        <control type="label">

            <left>3</left>

            <top>-3</top>

            <align>center</align>

            <aligny>center</aligny>

            <width>44</width>

            <height>44</height>

            <font>font20_title</font>

            <label>$INFO[$PARAM[infolabel]]</label>

        </control>

` </include>`

That hasn't worked either.

I wonder whether I am missing something? I can see the texture files (interestingly, I have renamed them and removed them from the folder and haven't noticed any difference).

Any thoughts?

[ronie]

this is the correct way to load a texture from the media folder: <texture>sausage/imdb.png</texture>
the special://skin/ prefix is only needed for using textures outside of the media folder.

in case kodi can't find a texture, it will be logged in the Debug Log, so always check that.

if renaming/removing makes no difference (if i understand you correctly) make sure there is no Textures.xbt file present in the media folder.

[PanTadeush]

Thanks! I totally forgot about debug log.

Lo behold, CGUITextureManager::GetTexturePath: could not find texture 'sausage/imdb.png'.

It's strange, as the image is there.

Any thoughts?

[ronie]

if kodi can't find it, it's not there ;-)

not sure what OS you're using, but unless it's windows, you'll have to keep case-sensitivity in mind.

[PanTadeush]

I created the appropriate tree in a backup kodi folder, which i thought I changed the paths to.

I hadn't. 

It works wonderfully now

Thanks!