2015-09-04, 08:00
Howdy, folks! Long time reader, just joined the forums so that I can finally, properly participate. I'll be adding support in the future, naturally, but for the time being I'm curious to see if anyone has a clue where to start with expanding Advanced Launcher to include TVTunes functionality. This way we can have the themes from our games playing in the background as we go through the menu.
TVTunes normally only supports the Video menu/node in Kodi but its author says that you can add TVTunes (script add-on) functionality to other addons by using the "Custom Window" instructions found here: kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:TvTunes
I feel as though I'm at the cusp of being able to get this to work, albeit perhaps in a "hacky" way where all items in the "Programs" window might try to look for associated songs (I suppose that might happen if I tried to make a skin's "Program" view use TVTunes), but I dunno... Complicating this- or not? I'm not great at coding- is that both Advanced Launcher and TVTunes are programmed in Python, so it's not a simple matter of adding XML code to Advanced Launcher so far as I know. Honestly, this would add some wonderful charm to my PC games menu if I can get it to go, but I feel like it's just out of my grasp and I'm curious to see if anyone else has done this (nothing I'm finding here on the forums), or if someone with a better grasp for these things might be able to reason it out with more ease than I can.
I'll report back if I see any progress. Doesn't matter to me if I need to add a line or two to Advanced Launcher (the ideal), or if it can work in a more general way by adding a few lines of code to a skin's MyPrograms.xml file or something.
PS: For anyone interested, the Cirrus Extended skin supports Trailers with Advanced Launcher, so far as I can tell.
TVTunes normally only supports the Video menu/node in Kodi but its author says that you can add TVTunes (script add-on) functionality to other addons by using the "Custom Window" instructions found here: kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:TvTunes
I feel as though I'm at the cusp of being able to get this to work, albeit perhaps in a "hacky" way where all items in the "Programs" window might try to look for associated songs (I suppose that might happen if I tried to make a skin's "Program" view use TVTunes), but I dunno... Complicating this- or not? I'm not great at coding- is that both Advanced Launcher and TVTunes are programmed in Python, so it's not a simple matter of adding XML code to Advanced Launcher so far as I know. Honestly, this would add some wonderful charm to my PC games menu if I can get it to go, but I feel like it's just out of my grasp and I'm curious to see if anyone else has done this (nothing I'm finding here on the forums), or if someone with a better grasp for these things might be able to reason it out with more ease than I can.
I'll report back if I see any progress. Doesn't matter to me if I need to add a line or two to Advanced Launcher (the ideal), or if it can work in a more general way by adding a few lines of code to a skin's MyPrograms.xml file or something.
PS: For anyone interested, the Cirrus Extended skin supports Trailers with Advanced Launcher, so far as I can tell.