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Debug tools for skinning - DanWho - 2015-05-08
Hi
Can you name a few tools/addons I can use for making skinning easier. I am using the Gridview and Info Labels but I would ideally like to use a tool which allows me to get Info such as Window Id, Window Name, Control Id and Type and so on.
RE: Debug tools for skinning - ronie - 2015-05-08
you can set debugging="true" in the addon.xml file of your skin.
that will print some additional info on-screen:
- window name
- xml file name
- id of the focussed control
- type of the focussed control
- x,y position of the cursor
RE: Debug tools for skinning - Hitcher - 2015-05-09
@ronie Is there any other way to trigger debugging? eg mapped to a keyboard button.
RE: Debug tools for skinning - ronie - 2015-05-09
currently, nope..
this does the trick though:
https://github.com/ronie/xbmc/commit/74bd7613f00a4709eac85d9db5edd35726a142cc
but whether that is acceptable code remains to be seen ;-)
will have to bug one of the kodi devs to review.
RE: Debug tools for skinning - DanWho - 2015-05-09
Thanks for the tip, that helped me a lot.
But somtimes the info goes out of screen like in the screen shot, Anyway that I can wrap the text ?
Image
RE: Debug tools for skinning - ronie - 2015-05-09
nope, the only thing you can do is to pick a smaller fontsize.
for the debug text, kodi uses font13 from your Fonts.xml files, so define a smaller size there.
RE: Debug tools for skinning - Hitcher - 2015-05-09
(2015-05-09, 13:52)ronie Wrote: currently, nope..
this does the trick though:
https://github.com/ronie/xbmc/commit/74bd7613f00a4709eac85d9db5edd35726a142cc
but whether that is acceptable code remains to be seen ;-)
will have to bug one of the kodi devs to review.
Cheers ronie.
RE: Debug tools for skinning - DanWho - 2015-05-11
Thanks for the info