[Ch3dd4rGoblin]

Is there a way to have Kodi display the window IDs as they are called upon? Im tinkering with an old Kodi skin (XBMC technically) on an old XBMC build and I'd find it highly useful as I need to know what windows are called when.
I want to ultimately get an old skin working on new stable Kodi. Ambitious especially since I only have experience in making themes.... from 15 years ago. If nothing else maybe I'll learn a bit about skinning kodi.

Is there a debug for skinners I'm unaware of?

[ronie]

you can set debugging to true in the addon.xml file of the skin

xml:
<extension point="xbmc.gui.skin" debugging="true">

that will display the window name and xml filename on screen.

it is recommended to use the window name in your code and not the window id.
but you can look up the id in this table: https://kodi.wiki/view/Window_IDs

[Ch3dd4rGoblin]

you can set debugging to true in the addon.xml file of the skin

xml:
<extension point="xbmc.gui.skin" debugging="true">

that will display the window name and xml filename on screen.

it is recommended to use the window name in your code and not the window id.
but you can look up the id in this table: https://kodi.wiki/view/Window_IDs

Nice! I saw that in screenshots in other threads so I knew it was a thing. Thanks for the tip 

[Ch3dd4rGoblin]

lol I messed up that reply. I hate to ask but does this forum have an edit? I tried to ninja edit but I cant find the option.
No worries anyway, guess I may have to preview before posting in the future.

Thanks again ronie

[Ch3dd4rGoblin]

Any idea how this might have been handled back in Gotham era?

[Ch3dd4rGoblin]

I got it working. So sorry for the newbie questions.