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How to test peripheral setting - pecinko - 2011-11-23
I'm missing 2 new xmls for peripherals and was wondering how could I test them out.
What should I plug into PC in order for them to be available?
I could borrow them from Confluence (and I will if I must), but they won't fit with the rest of skin.
- KRKA01 - 2011-11-23
You need one of this installed otherwise the peripheral option will be greyed out.
http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2011/11/01/the-usb-cec-adapter-is-a-look-into-the-future/
Stoli (Neon skin) borrowed them fron Confluence, just to get the options into the Neon skin and stated that he will probably customize them when he have the time.
- Jeroen - 2011-11-23
Would be nice if we could somehow create a dummy/fake device so that we don't have to skin it "blind".
- Hitcher - 2011-11-23
Couldn't they have used existing dialogs?
- Sharpe - 2011-11-23
You can sort of see how it looks by adding something like these controls to your keymap.xml;
Code:
<F7>ActivateWindow(10149)</F7>
<F8>ActivateWindow(10150)</F8>That way pressing F7 or F8 activate the dialogs (which are still blank of course but give you an idea for backgrounds and so on).
- ronie - 2011-11-23
Jeroen Wrote:Would be nice if we could somehow create a dummy/fake device so that we don't have to skin it "blind".
you can replace peripherals.xml with this one:
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/034236bf690119b2a82be1133ff328bccbdc4411/system/peripherals.xml
it'll make any usb device show up.
- Jeroen - 2011-11-23
ronie Wrote:you can replace peripherals.xml with this one:
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/034236bf690119b2a82be1133ff328bccbdc4411/system/peripherals.xml
it'll make any usb device show up.
Cheers, but it doesn't seem to work for me. The peripheral settings option in system settings stays disabled. I restarted XBMC.
Using the keymap to open the dialogs helps, but of course most of the controls aren't visible without a device.
- pecinko - 2011-11-24
Well, if it's used just for that and there's no easy way to test the skinning than I guess the users can switch to Confluence for setting it up.
- Jezz_X - 2011-11-24
If you try a build from a month ago that xml ronie posted should work because its been changed later to disable the setting if no valid devices are found
- Jezz_X - 2011-11-24
Just for reference this is how they look in confluence It really shouldn't be too hard to make them semi decent blind if you can read skin.xml proper
DialogPeripheralManager.xml http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1405/screenshot042h.png
DialogPeripheralSettings.xml http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/258/screenshot043c.png
But yeah its not a great way to do it
- `Black - 2011-11-24
The xml still works fine for testing the dialogs with the latest build, at least on OS X.
- ronie - 2011-11-24
make sure you stick the xml i've posted in the dir where xbmc is installed,
not in your userdata folder.
- pecinko - 2011-11-24
And the right location on OS X is where exactly? Black?
- pecinko - 2011-11-24
Hitcher Wrote:Couldn't they have used existing dialogs?
For what it's worth, if you could combine this 2 new xmls you would end up with the one looking as DialogAddonSettings.xml
- `Black - 2011-11-24
pecinko Wrote:And the right location on OS X is where exactly? Black?
Normally that would be /Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/Resources/XBMC/System/