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Nobody has any clue about this? Or is my question maybe confusing?
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I guess I can post it there. To be honest, I started my own thread because that thread doesn't seem to get looked at. The last question I posted there never got answered. It only got answered because I PMd someone and asked if they could look into it for me. I didn't want to bother him again, so I posted it here so it would be seen. I didn't mean to ruffle any feathers.
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nad (a Team-XBMC developer) is the creator of the HTTP API and he tries to checkup on that topic-thread as often as he can.
You have to understand and remember that XBMC is a hobby project.
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Hi smcnally: I don't mind being PM'd but as you said if you want a prompt response it may be easier to throw the query open to all.
As far as your query, I'll have to check. I don't use that interface myself and may require a bit of dusting down. If you were using the httpapi interface you wouldn't be able to do what you are after; you would have to accept the whole list and then split the list up locally yourself. Having said that, I would have thought that was the better approach, in that it would be more responsive to the end user. Otherwise next_page and prev_page will require roundtrips to XBMC. Each trip to XBMC would require the generation of the entire list (time consuming and resource heavy) before splitting the list into the chunk you are after.
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Hi nad, thanks for looking into this for me. I was thinking of having it pull the entire list and then have the touch panel processor grab 10 lines and then grab the next 10 lines with a page down command but I was trying to avoid an enormous amount of info coming into the processor if at all possible. If asking for specific menu lines isn't possible with the way it is currently setup, I wonder if I can pull the database file and have my program pull off of that instead. I'll have to look into that this weekend...that may also be a possibility.