[User 156625]

I am trying to find a way of setting the width of buttons automatically. Reading between the lines, it seems this isn't possible - the auto width property only applies to labels??

This basically makes it impossible to make horizontal lists look any good... To put it into context I am trying to develop a thumbnail view with a horizontal list of buttons above - the fixed widths make the list look totally pants...




Given the popularity of horizontal scrolling these days (thanks in no small part to metro etc.) this is quite a frustrating omission that's been requested for at least four years.

Does anyone have a viable workaround or is this a non-starter? My fall-back is a group-list parent for a button list and manually setting widths for every single button (pretty crude and I'm not sure it's viable for what I have in mind...)

Also, is there seriously no support for underlining text?!

...apologies for the tone. I really do appreciate parts of xbmc are brilliant and it's free, people develop it out of the kindness of their hearts etc., but having invested a lot of time trying to put together a new skin, it's difficult not to be frustrated by the lack of some (what I thought were) basic functions.

[Sranshaft]

As you're using Immersive for your new skin, have a look at how I did this for the Trakt.TV window; Custom_TraktTV_Hub.xml. You'll basically be setting up two grouplists - one for the buttons and one for labels. You'll be navigating the buttons and using the focus condition of them to change the labels.

[User 156625]

Hi Sran.

Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look.

Yes - I was using Immersive as the basis and sincere apologies for not crediting that! It's a great skin and very well coded so makes a brilliant template rather than starting from scratch (I should also credit Microsoft since I'm borrowing heavily from the look of the metro apps too ;-) )

I planned on uploading screenshots of the whole skin at some point to gauge interest, but I'm having to hardcode certain things and use XBMC in a slightly unorthodox way to get it setup as I envisaged. But if I do upload it I will of course properly credit what I've used from Immersive.

[User 156625]

Managed to get this go work, but with one significant floor - there is no way to scroll labels (?) so the horizontal menu can't exceed the width of the screen.