2008-03-21, 00:47
Hello people,
I'm pretty new to XBMC, just been using it for a couple or months or so and totally in love with it. Many thanks to all people contributing in one way or another.
I've been lurking on these forums while working on my first skin which is coming along nicely. However there's one thing that has been driving me nuts. I want to make a menu system for my skin and I can't seem to get it the way I want. I think it's either not possible or just so simple I'm overlooking the solution. I've tried really hard but now I'm desperate for help
I think it's best explained with a simple picture:
In the picture the button with the red outline is hovered. I want the second menu in the right column to automatically appear when I hover the button. When I hover the second button on the left I want another right column menu to appear. Same goes for the third and so on.
And then ofcourse I want to be able to use an <onright> to enter the menu on the right and make the final selection. Say the first left item is titled "video" I want buttons on the right to appear for movies, tvshows, musicvideos, etc.
I tried Buttonscrollers but it seems I can only assign an <onright> action to the buttonscroller element itself but not to the individual buttons in it.
Basically it should be something like the settingscategory.xml but since it uses built-in elements I don't know how that's done.
I could give examples of things I tried but there's so many I don't even know where to start.
Is what I want possible? If so please share your knowledge and give me some pointers
I hope my explanation is somewhat understandable and clear
Thanks
I'm pretty new to XBMC, just been using it for a couple or months or so and totally in love with it. Many thanks to all people contributing in one way or another.
I've been lurking on these forums while working on my first skin which is coming along nicely. However there's one thing that has been driving me nuts. I want to make a menu system for my skin and I can't seem to get it the way I want. I think it's either not possible or just so simple I'm overlooking the solution. I've tried really hard but now I'm desperate for help
I think it's best explained with a simple picture:
In the picture the button with the red outline is hovered. I want the second menu in the right column to automatically appear when I hover the button. When I hover the second button on the left I want another right column menu to appear. Same goes for the third and so on.
And then ofcourse I want to be able to use an <onright> to enter the menu on the right and make the final selection. Say the first left item is titled "video" I want buttons on the right to appear for movies, tvshows, musicvideos, etc.
I tried Buttonscrollers but it seems I can only assign an <onright> action to the buttonscroller element itself but not to the individual buttons in it.
Basically it should be something like the settingscategory.xml but since it uses built-in elements I don't know how that's done.
I could give examples of things I tried but there's so many I don't even know where to start.
Is what I want possible? If so please share your knowledge and give me some pointers
I hope my explanation is somewhat understandable and clear
Thanks