[pransin]

Hi, I am developing a picture addon. I want to change the sideblade menu but couldn't find any documentation regarding this. Specifically, I want to change the way the filter option works (if not possible, I would like to add another custom filtering button). I want to present the user with a list of options when using filter. How can I do this?

[jbinkley60]

Hi, I am developing a picture addon. I want to change the sideblade menu but couldn't find any documentation regarding this. Specifically, I want to change the way the filter option works (if not possible, I would like to add another custom filtering button). I want to present the user with a list of options when using filter. How can I do this?

Here's what I use for some of my content:

    xbmcplugin.addSortMethod(addon_handle, xbmcplugin.SORT_METHOD_UNSORTED)
    xbmcplugin.addSortMethod(addon_handle, xbmcplugin.SORT_METHOD_DATE)
    xbmcplugin.addSortMethod(addon_handle, xbmcplugin.SORT_METHOD_TITLE_IGNORE_THE)
    xbmcplugin.addSortMethod(addon_handle, xbmcplugin.SORT_METHOD_VIDEO_YEAR)
    xbmcplugin.addSortMethod(addon_handle, xbmcplugin.SORT_METHOD_GENRE)
    xbmcplugin.addSortMethod(addon_handle, xbmcplugin.SORT_METHOD_DURATION)
    xbmcplugin.endOfDirectory(addon_handle)

Here's the link to the full set of sort options.  I am not sure you can create a custom sort option beyond these but there may be other ways to do the same thing, depending upon what you are trying to do.


Jeff

[pransin]

Thanks for the reply. Actually, I can't use those options because my plugin paginates the media list and the default sorting methods would work only for the items loaded in that window. I'll use a remote server to directly get filtered results.