Help Needed: Customizing Pandora

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Help Needed: Customizing Pandora - htpc guy - 2011-10-24

I love spbogie's Pandora addon (found here).

I've all ready created a pretty good skin (see post in Pandora Thread) and would like to make more. Problem is that you can only have one default skin. I would like to give the user an option to choose which skin to use in the settings menu.

I have figured out how to edit the settings menu to choose between multiple skins. Now I've run into the hard part. I've figured out that I must edit default.py and tell it which skin to load.

Here is what I have so far...

Settings.xml contains:

Code:
    <setting id="skin" type="enum" label="Look + Feel"

        values="Gloss|Alaska" default="0"/>

Gloss will be the default skin, thus it is in a folder named Default.

File Structure:

Code:
~XBMC\addons\XBMC-pandora\resources\skins

     |_Alaska

          |_skin files w/ skin.xml

     |_Default

          |_skin files w/ skin.xml

Each skin folder has a skin.xml with a line for:

Code:
<skinname>Gloss</skinname>

and

<skinname>Alaska</skinname>

Now I just need to edit default.py. Any help would be appriciated. I know 0 python. I need to write an If Statement (I thinnk) that takes the skin settings and loads the skin from the correct folder.

Thanks.

- divingmule - 2011-10-25

I don't know how skins are loaded but for the settings and getting the skin.xml file I would do something like this.

Code:
if __settings__.getSetting( "skin" ) == "0":

    skin_file = xbmc.translatePath( os.path.join( scriptPath, 'resources', 'skins', '_Default', 'skin.xml' ) )

if __settings__.getSetting( "skin" ) == "1":

    skin_file = xbmc.translatePath( os.path.join( scriptPath, 'resources', 'skins', '_Alaska', 'skin.xml' ) )

This would need to go below where scriptPath is defined.