[Doctor Eggs]

Is there a way to use a property in a list item to set the focus based on that value? I am setting two property values for each item "upId" and "downId" that I want to use to setFocus <onUp> and <onDown>.

I stripped down what I have to illustrate what I'm trying to do, but it doesn't work.

Is this not the right syntax for ListItem.Property?

Or can you not use a variable for SetFocus()? 

xml:


            <control type="fixedlist" id="90001">

                <onleft>90001</onleft>

                <onright>90001</onright>

                <onup>SetFocus(9000,ListItem.Property(upId),absolute)</onup>

                <ondown>SetFocus(9000,ListItem.Property(downId),absolute)</ondown>

                <pagecontrol/>

                <focusposition>1</focusposition>

                <movement>1</movement>

                <orientation>Horizontal</orientation>

                <itemlayout height="65" width="150">

                    <control type="label">

                        <label>$INFO[ListItem.Label]</label>

                    </control>

                </itemlayout>

                <focusedlayout height="65" width="150">

                    <control type="label">

                        <label>$INFO[ListItem.Label]</label>

                    </control>

                </focusedlayout>

                <content>

                    <item id="1">

                        <label>Item 1</label>

                        <property name="upId">0</property>

                        <property name="downId">4</property>

                    </item>

                    <item id="2">

                        <label>Item 2</label>

                        <property name="upId">1</property>

                        <property name="downId">5</property>

                    </item>

                </content>

            </control>

[roidy]

Have you tried:-

<onup>SetFocus(9000,$INFO[ListItem.Property(upId)],absolute)</onup>

[Doctor Eggs]

Have you tried:-

<onup>SetFocus(9000,$INFO[ListItem.Property(upId)],absolute)</onup>

When I try that it goes to the first item in my other fixed list as if the value for $INFO[ListItem.Property(upId)] is being returned as zero.

[roidy]

Ok, try the hidden label method.

Just before the fixedlist control add two hidden label controls:-

xml:
<control type="label" id="90002">

  <left>-1000</left>

  <label>$INFO[Container(90001).ListItem.Property(upId)]</label>

</control>

<control type="label" id="90003">

  <left>-1000</left>

  <label>$INFO[Container(90001).ListItem.Property(downId)]</label>

</control>

Then in your fixedlist try:-

xml:
<onup>SetFocus(9000,$INFO[Control.GetLabel(90002)],absolute)</onup>

<ondown>SetFocus(9000,$INFO[Control.GetLabel(90003)],absolute)</ondown>

Failing that then it might not be possible to drive SetFocus using an infolabel

[Doctor Eggs]

Ok, try the hidden label method.

Just before the fixedlist control add two hidden label controls:-

xml:
<control type="label" id="90002">

  <left>-1000</left>

  <label>$INFO[Container(90001).ListItem.Property(upId)]</label>

</control>

<control type="label" id="90003">

  <left>-1000</left>

  <label>$INFO[Container(90001).ListItem.Property(downId)]</label>

</control>

Then in your fixedlist try:-

xml:
<onup>SetFocus(9000,$INFO[Control.GetLabel(90002)],absolute)</onup>

<ondown>SetFocus(9000,$INFO[Control.GetLabel(90003)],absolute)</ondown>

Failing that then it might not be possible to drive SetFocus using an infolabel

Thank you for your help with this. It is greatly appreciated.

So I tried that but that still doesn't work. When I move the labels from -1000 to something viewable, I see that the label is converting the number to the text string from stings.po.
Example: <label>4</label> shows on the screen as "TV Guide"

Is there a way to make sure that it returns the number instead of the text string? Or is there a different place that I can store it and reference it so that it has the numeric value?

EDIT:
If I put in values in the strings.po to convert the numbers in the label to actual upId and downId values it works.
Example

xml:


            <control type="label" id="90002">

                <left>10</left>

                <label>900011</label>

            </control>

            <control type="label" id="90003">

                <left>10</left>

                <top>30</top>

                <label>900012</label>

            </control>

strings.po

Code:


msgctxt "#900011"
msgid "4"
msgstr ""

msgctxt "#900012"
msgid "5"
msgstr ""


But is there a better way to store/pass those values through the labels or some other control?

[roidy]

Is there a way to make sure that it returns the number instead of the text string?

Yes, use the $NUMBER[] function when you set your properties, that could of been the issue from the very start:-

xml:
 <content>

<item id="1">

<label>Item 1</label>

<property name="upId">$NUMBER[0]</property>

<property name="downId">$NUMBER[4]</property>

</item>

<item id="2">

<label>Item 2</label>

<property name="upId">$NUMBER[1]</property>

<property name="downId">$NUMBER[5]</property>

</item>

</content>

[Doctor Eggs]

PERFECT!

It turned out the property value was the one that needed to use $NUMBER[].

When I did that I was able to go back to 

xml:
<onup>SetFocus(9000,$INFO[ListItem.Property(upId)],absolute)</onup>

and no longer needed to use the extra labels to store/pass the value.

Thank you so much for your help!

[roidy]

Glad you got it working