[blackdal]

Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere.

I'm looking for a way to be able to make the submenus for Home buttons like video, movies, tv-shows automatically popup as soon as the appropriate home button is highlighted.

So rather than highlighting the movies button, then pressing right to open the submenu - I'd like that the submenus (ie title, recently added, actor, year, director, etc) automatically show.

I'm trying for some additional ease-of-use for members of the house. I've got a bunch of smartlists they will be using, but rather than adding a button for each to the home menu (since this would be 4 or 5 per movie or tv-show category) and cluttering it, it would be good to select to watch movie --> automatically show submenu and prompt for particular smartlist to use.

(yeah, i know, hitting right isn't rocket science, but i've got to work with what i've got

Is this possible?

Are there any other methods to achieve a similar sort of ease-of-use of smartplalists from the home menu while keeping things uncluttered.

[blackdal]

It looks like i'll need to be using something like the visible tag (http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...a_skinning) to get my sub-menu appearing automatically.

The following code should get me what I want:

<visible>window.IsActive(windowname)</visible>

However, i'm not sure how to reference the correct button.
Would I be referencing the item id of the button in question? (which for movies should be 10, if i'm reading the home.xml file correct).

So the following should be correct.

<visible>window.IsActive(10)</visible>

Finally, what control would this need to be added to? I'd assume it would be grouplist id=9016. However, this seems linked to container id=9000 which requires focus to work.

Is anyone with more experience with skinning able to point me in the right direction?

[mcborzu]

Probably delete this code block starting at line 400 in Home.xml

Code:

<animation effect="fade" start="100" end="0" time="0" condition="!ControlGroup(9001).HasFocus">conditional</animation>
                <animation effect="fade" start="0" end="100" delay="300" time="200" condition="ControlGroup(9001).HasFocus">conditional</animation>
                <animation effect="fade" start="100" end="0" time="0" condition="ControlGroup(9001).HasFocus">WindowClose</animation>
                <animation effect="slide" end="210,0" time="300" tween="quadratic" easing="out" condition="ControlGroup(9001).HasFocus">conditional</animation>

[japes]

Probably delete this code block starting at line 400 in Home.xml

Code:

<animation effect="fade" start="100" end="0" time="0" condition="!ControlGroup(9001).HasFocus">conditional</animation>
                <animation effect="fade" start="0" end="100" delay="300" time="200" condition="ControlGroup(9001).HasFocus">conditional</animation>
                <animation effect="fade" start="100" end="0" time="0" condition="ControlGroup(9001).HasFocus">WindowClose</animation>
                <animation effect="slide" end="210,0" time="300" tween="quadratic" easing="out" condition="ControlGroup(9001).HasFocus">conditional</animation>

Tried this but I wasn't completely successful

I got close but the submenu was no longer centered and the darker backgrounds for the sub buttons were gone so it was hard to read.