Custom menu items - directly add playlists?

ronie Wrote:added an option in skin settings > scripts

select your preferred setting before adding playlists (through favourites) as submenu items.

Just did a quick test and seems to be working as intended. Now I can add additional navigational video playlists to the homescreen.

ronie Wrote:well, you're running the favourites script like this right?
XBMC.RunScript(script.favourites,playlists=play)

change it to
XBMC.RunScript(script.favourites,playlists=window)
to get the old behaviour back.


the playlist=* option was broken in previous versions of script.favourites

Oh that's awesome I'd forgot all about the dialogfavourites.xml - thanks mate.

Sharpe Wrote:Hi ronie - I was just chatting with mcborzu about this.

I'm in the same boat using the favourites script. It used to work in a way that let you add your video playlist favourites as shortcut items that could be viewed. However now the script replaces activatewindow with playmedia for video playlists. Would it not be simpler to just change that back around for video playlists?

I hope that you would leave things as they are now Ronie. Either that or make it a selectable option to either play immediately or view the listing. I prefer the way it is now, to Play now. Please don't change back video playlist to activatewindow.

Also...is the new option to add a playlist to the homescreen in the current download now?

Thanks,
Mark

mwkurt Wrote:I hope that you would leave things as they are now Ronie. Either that or make it a selectable option to either play immediately or view the listing. I prefer the way it is now, to Play now. Please don't change back video playlist to activatewindow.

Also...is the new option to add a playlist to the homescreen in the current download now?

Thanks,
Mark

play is still the default setting.
i only added an option to change it to view if you want to.

playlist can be added if you add them to favourites first.

ronie Wrote:added an option in skin settings > scripts

moved the option to:
Skin Settings > Home Window > Play playlists in submenus

ronie Wrote:moved the option to:
Skin Settings > Home Window > Play playlists in submenus

I'm basically trying to do the same thing, want a custom home menu button that opens up to a favorite playlist menu instead of directly start playing. I don't see that option to change it in the settings. I'm running scripts.favorites 1.0.5 if that matters, and Dharma 4 with latest version of Transparency skin. Am I doing something wrong or running incompatible version?

I tired searching though the XML files searching for that option to change PlayMedia to ActivateWindow, but then I came across this post.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Steedo Wrote:I'm basically trying to do the same thing, want a custom home menu button that opens up to a favorite playlist menu instead of directly start playing. I don't see that option to change it in the settings. I'm running scripts.favorites 1.0.5 if that matters, and Dharma 4 with latest version of Transparency skin.

it's currently only available in the development (svn) version of T!
it will be there in the next stable release...in a week or so.

Sweet... that does the trick for me! Now I just have to re setup my xbmc entirely so that it runs just the way i like it...