Another newb question, this time about views
#1
Hi again everyone,

As you know I'm a rank beginner when it comes to skinning. My starting base is the "empty" skin which I am modding/rewriting to achieve what I want.

Today I want to do some work on my Movies view, so I opened up myvideonav.xml to have a look. I can't see anywhere in there where the different views for say Movies and TV Shows are.

If I code a view directly into myvideonav.xml is that going to be the default view for everything video related?

How to a specify that for Movies I want view 1 and for TV Shows I want view 2 etc? For that matter for TV Shows I'd want view 3 and for TV Episodes I'd want view 3 etc, you get the point.

I don't want to start just coding only to find out later that I have to redo it all to get my differing views.

If someone could give me a brief overview of the process for creating different views I'd appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.
Alistair
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#2
This post explains creating new viewtypes pretty well.

To specify something for movies/tv/season/episodes:

Container.Content(Movies)
Container.Content(tvshows)
Container.Content(seasons)
Container.Content(episodes)
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#3
Where does the Container.Content(Movies) command go? In the definition of my view in the commonviews.xml file?

Thanks once again mate, your my new skinning guru Smile
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#4
I've just done a search in the wiki for "Container.Content" and it came up blank....AARGH!

Is it surrounded by <content></content>?
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#5
I've had a look through the example code you linked to in the other post and I can see where you've put the Container.Content(Movies) between the <visible></visible> tags but isn't that telling xbmc that that view is only visible if the container is showing movies (or any of the other conditions listed)?

What I need to know is HOW to tell the container that it's showing Movies (instead of say TV Shows).

All very confusing.
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#6
That's basically what the visible conditions are doing - the views will only be used when the condition is meet.

ie

PHP Code:
<control type="group">
<
visible>Container.Content(movies)</visible>
    <
control type="list" id="50">
        <
viewtype label="View_1">list</viewtype>
        ...
    </
control>
</
control>

<
control type="group">
<
visible>Container.Content(tvshows)</visible>
    <
control type="list" id="51">
        <
viewtype label="View_2">list</viewtype>
        ...
    </
control>
</
control>

<
control type="group">
<
visible>Container.Content(episodes)</visible>
    <
control type="list" id="52">
        <
viewtype label="View_3">list</viewtype>
        ...
    </
control>
</
control
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#7
Thanks for your reply Hitcher.
Yeah I understand that the stuff between the <visible></visible> tags are conditions for telling xbmc when to show the views but I'm struggling with how to set the content of a container.

For instance, I have the "Movies" button on my home menu set to take me to videolibrary,movietitles and in my commonviews.xml file have a view called movielist that has

<visible>Window.IsActive(25)</visible>

I have then put

<include>movielist</include>

into my MyVideoNav.xml file but at the moment all I get is a blank screen.

Not even the hard coded images are showing up never mind the list of movies! I despair.

I think somewhere on a basic level I'm understanding it all wrong lol
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#8
a black screen is often an indication of some bad (invalid) xml code.
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#9
Indeed, what are you using to edit and check the code?
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#10
At the minute I'm using Dashcode but even if I comment out everything I've added with <!-- --> I still get the blank screen. It's as if it has opened on a screen because it takes me two or three taps of the esc key to get back to the home menu. I'm thinking it's because I'm using a white background and the Empty skin uses a lot of white text but I could be wrong.
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#11
Oh for crying out loud I'm an absolute dope!! I was editing the MyVideoNav.xml file from a different skin....I'm SO sorry guys give me five minutes or so to see if it works with the right bloody skin

God I feel stupid :|
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#12
Don't worry about, I've done the same thing myself before.
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#13
OK so, using Coda now. Have got the MyVideoNav.xml and Commonviews.xml files back to their originals and started again with my changes.

I've added <include>movielist</include> to the bottom of MyVideoNav.xml and have created a page as an include in CommonViews.xml with <visible>Window.IsActive(videolibrary,movietitles)</visible> as the condition.

Here is my include

Code:
<include name="movielist">
      <control type="Group">
      <visible>Window.IsActive(videolibrary,movietitles)</visible>
      <width>1920</width>
      <height>1080</height>
      <posx>0</posx>
      <posy>0</posy>

    <control type="image">
        <description>White Background</description>
        <posx>0</posx>
        <posy>0</posy>
        <width>1920</width>
        <height>1080</height>
        <texture>whiteback.jpg</texture>
        <visible>true</visible>
        <aspectratio>-</aspectratio>
    </control>
    
    <control type="image">
        <posx>17</posx>
        <posy>72</posy>
        <width>1888</width>
        <height>7</height>
        <aspectratio>stretch</aspectratio>
        <texture>widesep.png</texture>
    </control>
    
    <control type="image">
        <posx>17</posx>
        <posy>705</posy>
        <width>1888</width>
        <height>7</height>
        <aspectratio>stretch</aspectratio>
        <texture>widesep.png</texture>
    </control>
    
    <control type="image">
        <posx>1130</posx>
        <posy>707</posy>
        <width>1</width>
        <height>323</height>
        <aspectratio>stretch</aspectratio>
        <texture>lowmovsep.png</texture>
    </control>
    
    <control type="label">
        <posx>30</posx>
        <posy>30</posy>
        <font>Large</font>
        <textcolor>Black</textcolor>
        <label>Movies</label>
    </control>

  <description>Movie List View</description>
    <control type="wraplist" id="51">

        <orientation>horizontal</orientation>
        <posx>100</posx>
        <posy>150</posy>
        <width>1720</width>
        <height>720</height>
        <onleft>51</onleft>
        <onright>51</onright>
        <onup>51</onup>
        <ondown>51</ondown>
        <viewtype label="movielist">list</viewtype>
        <scrolltime>200</scrolltime>
        <itemlayout width="150" height="220">
        <control type="image">
            <info>ListItem.Icon</info>
        </control>
        </itemlayout>
        <focusedlayout width="300" height="530">
        <control type="image">
            <info>ListItem.Icon</info>
        </control>
        </focusedlayout>
        <focusposition>0</focusposition>
    </control>
</control>
</include>

Should this work?

I should add that what happens now is that I get the default lst view provided by the Empty skin rather than my own view.
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#14
OK I've commented out the main group that contained everything and I'm finally getting something, just not my movie list.

How do I tell the skin that my list needs to contain my movies?
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#15
Aha! The problem was that I wasn't specifying width and height for my images doh!
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