How can I add a new view mode?

People have told me this but I cant quite get it.

I want to make a brand new view and add it to the list of options. I made the view, how do I add it?

You should just have to give the view a unique id and add that to <views> at myvideonav.xml...
<control type="wraplist" id="720">
<views>50,500,501,508,504,503,505,511,720</views>

If you want to go a little further, I prefer the Alaska/Aeon way of keeping things inside of different viewtype_foo.xml instead of all in one big view.xml. Plus when Confluence is updated it wont be overwritten and you wont have to compare and merge.

Anyways here is an example taking PosterWrap and making into a new view called bob, with include name of YoMomma. You can see it here...http://pastebin.com/m6c9e4b26

Then added the view id of 720 to the <views> tag at the top of myvideonav.xml.

Then added this bolded part at line 152 in myvideonav.xml

Quote:<include>WideIconView</include> <!-- view id = 505 -->
<include>MusicVideoInfoListView</include> <!-- view id = 511 -->
<include>YoMomma</include>

And then this <include file="viewtype_test.xml" /> at the top of includes.xml

Look into the file you want to add it to in this example MyVideo.xml (video files mode)
add your code or include depending on how you did it too this block

and make sure you also add the id number of the view to this line at the top

You of course need to make sure that the id number doesn't conflict with any of the current ones

Jezz_X Wrote:and make sure you also add the id number of the view to this line at the top

PHP Code:

    <views>50,51,500,501,508,505</views> 


i've been wondering for some time why this is needed?
some skins don't use a <views> definition at the top of their My*.xml files,
while others don't seem to run properly without it.

could you explain what that line means?

Thanks for the help guys!

ronie Wrote:i've been wondering for some time why this is needed?
some skins don't use a <views> definition at the top of their My*.xml files,
while others don't seem to run properly without it.

could you explain what that line means?

the <views> tag lets you use id's beyond 50 to 59 it also lets you set the order in which they cycle with the change view button in the skin by changing the order of the numbers in the tag

You don't need the <views> tag if your only using id's 50 to 59 for views but as you can see in confluence aside from id 50 (needed for virtual nav to lists not id'd 50) I use 500 - 600

thanx, o thou skinning master!

i'll check if there's a suitable place in the wiki for this info.