[MOD] home-menu hacking

the animation in this new skin is quite smooth, thanks Jezz.
i've figured out how to personalise the main menu
& i hope others can benefit from some steps

• always practice safe moding,
  make a backup of ~/skin/Confluence/720p/home.xml

• to add a new <sub-menu-button> ...
  
  1. find the appropriate <control type="grouplist" id="9010"> thought to <control type="grouplist" id="9017">
  2. duplicate the last button block and increment the ID by 1
     ex: custom TV submenu button to open any video source
     Code:
     

     <control type="button" id="90176">
    <include>ButtonHomeSubCommonValues</include>
    <label>[b][name-here][/b]</label>
    <onclick>ActivateWindow(videofiles,[b][insert-source-name][/b],return)</onclick>
</control>

to add a new <main-menu-button>

1. find
   
   Code:
   

       <control type="fixedlist" id="9000">
...
        <content>
2. duplicate an <item></item> block, increment the ID (12+)
3. edit destination & label
   

• to add a new <sub-menu> with buttons
  
  1. 1st add a new <main-main-button>
  2. find <texture>HomeHasSub.png</texture>
     in the next line add your new-main-menu-ID to the <visibility> statement
     ex: <visible>Container(9000).HasFocus(12) | Container(9000).HasFocus(2) | Container(9000).HasFocus(3)
  3. in <control type="group" id="9001"> duplicate one of the <sub-menu blocks>
  4. increment all IDs
  5. match up the visibility statement for the new-main menu ID
     ex: <visible>Container(9000).HasFocus(12)</visible>
  6. edit each button as needed
     in my case hooked into leo's launcher
     

thanks to everyone for making these silly mods possible
props where props are due

here i've added a sub-menu for leo's launcher ( & some emu action )


ps. if <hitrect> does what i think,
this is a really cool addition to the movie list and home menu
+ the position of the sub-menu on different levels... LOVE IT!!! thnx again

Oh yes, this is exactly what I was looking for.

Ñow comes the problem, I am able to add a new menu item "concert" but I do not succeed in adding a submenu.

Can you please post your "games" menu xml code?

Thank you!

Quick question, if i copy the confluence skin folder to the skins folder where you can add additional skins(i forget where on my linux computer as i'm not on it at the mo) will this overide the original skin folder? and therefore avoid upgrade problems?

@boyofford, yes thats exactly what i've done.

@spec_8472, here is my games sub-menu. make sure

• <onup> & <ondown> are self-referential (9018 in my case)
• & the <visible> statement needs to match the ID you added to the main-main (HasFocus(12) below)
  

i made a new main-menu:

<item id="12">
<label>Emu|Appz</label>
<onclick>runPlugin(plugin://programs/Launcher)</onclick>
<icon>special://skin/backgrounds/programs.jpg</icon>
<thumb>$INFO[Skin.String(Home_Custom_Back_Programs_Folder)]</thumb>
</item>

but Launcher don´t starts

when i go to programms / plugins / launcher it will starts normlly

can u help me?
thx

Getting those correct paths are always tricky...what I do is add it to favorites, then open up favorites.xml and grab the path from there.

This is what I got from my favorites.xml:

Quote:ActivateWindow(10001,plugin://programs/Launcher/)

This is what I got to directly link to N64:

Quote:ActivateWindow(10001,plugin://programs/Launcher/?N64)

mcborzu has the right idea, thats how i found out what to use also.

for reference
runPlugin is for when you're pointing to an application
ActivateWindow is for when you're pointing to a window (ie EMU folder or just launcher)

will don´t work for me

Hi Guys
I'm Trying to Add Enigma2 Plugin to main menu or a submenu to Live TV
here is what I've done
<control type="button" id="90182">
<include>ButtonHomeSubCommonValues</include>
<label>dream1</label>
<onclick>runscript(special://home/plugins/video/Enigma2/default.py,limit=4)</onclick>

I can see Dream1 on a Live Tv sub menu but as soon as I click on it I receive ERROR SCRIPT FAIL! message ,,,
I normally run it under videos>Plugins Menu without any Problems
Does anyone have any idea whats wrong here
Thanx in advance...

Where can i find the favorites.xml in winscp?

found it was still in root