How to test peripheral setting

pecinko · 2011-11-23 16:56

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? Smile

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 20:05

You need one of this installed otherwise the peripheral option will be greyed out.
http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2011/11/01/th...he-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 20:09

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 20:36

Couldn't they have used existing dialogs?

Sharpe · 2011-11-23 21:47

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 21:54

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/034236...herals.xml

it'll make any usb device show up.

Jeroen · 2011-11-23 22:24

ronie Wrote:you can replace peripherals.xml with this one:
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/034236...herals.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 01:29

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 04:01

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 04:13

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/...ot042h.png

DialogPeripheralSettings.xml http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/258/s...ot043c.png

But yeah its not a great way to do it

pecinko Donor Posts: 3,001 Joined: Dec 2008 Reputation: 26 Location: Prague / Belgrade	2011-11-23 16:56 Post: #1 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. My skins: Quartz Amber
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KRKA01 Member Posts: 90 Joined: Sep 2011 Reputation: 0 Location: Stockholm, Sweden	2011-11-23 20:05 Post: #2 You need one of this installed otherwise the peripheral option will be greyed out. http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2011/11/01/th...he-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.
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Jeroen Skilled Skinner Posts: 1,882 Joined: Feb 2008 Reputation: 4 Location: The Netherlands	2011-11-23 20:09 Post: #3 Would be nice if we could somehow create a dummy/fake device so that we don't have to skin it "blind". reFocus repo reFocus GitHub
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Hitcher Skilled Skinner Posts: 9,921 Joined: Aug 2007 Reputation: 67 Location: Eastleigh, UK	2011-11-23 20:36 Post: #4 Couldn't they have used existing dialogs?
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Sharpe Skilled Skinner Posts: 971 Joined: Jul 2006 Reputation: 12 Location: North West England	2011-11-23 21:47 Post: #5 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). BACK ROW - DOWNLOADS
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pecinko Donor Posts: 3,001 Joined: Dec 2008 Reputation: 26 Location: Prague / Belgrade	2011-11-24 01:29 Post: #8 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. My skins: Quartz Amber
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Jezz_X Team-XBMC Skinner Posts: 5,263 Joined: Jun 2006 Reputation: 55 Location: Earth	2011-11-24 04:01 Post: #9 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 Skins I have done.... And others in the past... Want to know what I'm working on currently? Check me out on Google+
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