XBMC.Notification and Language

upD8R · 2012-02-13 00:02

Hi there,

I don't have any knowledge about Python but interestingly I started coding my first small addon. (Coding means mainly Copy & Paste :rolleyes Smile

Now I want to have a notification popup. It works but I'm curious if could use a label for my message as defined in my strings.xml.

Code:

xbmc.executebuiltin('XBMC.Notification(' + Action +',' + Action +' executed,10)')

Any idea how the syntax should be if I want to replace "executed" with a language dependent label?

Thanks!

**Martijn** · 2012-02-13 00:20

upD8R Wrote:Hi there,

(Coding means mainly Copy & Paste :rolleyes

Any idea how the syntax should be if I want to replace "executed" with a language dependent label?

Thanks!

So did we started all that way Wink

Very simplified:

PHP Code:

local_string = xbmcaddon.Addon(id='your script id').getLocalizedString

xbmc.executebuiltin('XBMC.Notification(' + Action +',' + Action +' local_string(32001),10)') 

Some documentation for starters (bit out dated but still works)
http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-gpodder-in...loads/list

upD8R · 2012-02-13 00:52

Thanks indeed for the hint. Your version did not work out of the box so I played a bit and this is my result:

PHP Code:

xbmc.executebuiltin('XBMC.Notification('+ Action +','+ Action +''+ NotifyString(30005) +',10)') 

I had to put the original space between Action and NotifyString into the strings.xml. Can I force a hard blank/space somehow directly in the code?

I don't have a clue what I'm doing but it's fun if it works Wink

**Martijn** · 2012-02-13 01:04

upD8R Wrote:Thanks indeed for the hint. Your version did not work out of the box so I played a bit and this is my result:

PHP Code:

xbmc.executebuiltin('XBMC.Notification('+ Action +','+ Action +''+ NotifyString(30005) +',10)')
I had to put the original space between Action and NotifyString into the strings.xml. Can I force a hard blank/space somehow directly in the code?

I don't have a clue what I'm doing but it's fun if it works

Welcome to my world Rolleyes

You can make a blank/space using:

PHP Code:

+ ' ' + 

everything between the quotations is made as a string so if you put a space there is will show up as a space

upD8R · 2012-02-13 10:01

Martijn Wrote:
PHP Code:

+ ' ' +

I thought this is what I tried. Nevertheless I'll give it another one tonight ...

Thanks again!

upD8R · 2012-02-13 21:55

It's me again. Not sure what I did wrong yesterday but your proposal works.

One additional question: It seems the duration of my notification is ignored. It pops up for approx. 3s and not 10 as defined.

Is this due to the fact that the script ends after this statement?

upD8R Senior Member Posts: 107 Joined: Jun 2011 Reputation: 2 Location: Germany	2012-02-13 10:01 Post: #5 Martijn Wrote: PHP Code: `+ ' ' +` I thought this is what I tried. Nevertheless I'll give it another one tonight ... Thanks again!
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upD8R Senior Member Posts: 107 Joined: Jun 2011 Reputation: 2 Location: Germany	2012-02-13 21:55 Post: #6 It's me again. Not sure what I did wrong yesterday but your proposal works. One additional question: It seems the duration of my notification is ignored. It pops up for approx. 3s and not 10 as defined. Is this due to the fact that the script ends after this statement?
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