How to add TV Shows to home screen

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Weavus Offline
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Paraffin Wrote:Although I get the menu on the home page the submenu appears blank, if I press enter on the blank screen I will go into a Library.
Do you actually have anything in your Library? I.e. have you scanned some content with TVDB/IMDB/TMDB scrapers?
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Paraffin Offline
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Post: #12
Yes of course lots, I can access the library if I go through the video menu.
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Paraffin Offline
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Any help appreciated as I have made the switch to this theme now and just want this one little change to make me very happy...
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Can anyone provide the correct edited string? I have a similar issue to the above poster, just looking for the correct values to edit.

Cheers,
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Paraffin Offline
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I managed to do it in the end, not perfect because you don't go straight into Library mode but better in my opinion. I might spend some time on it but very busy at the moment.

Here is the link to the xml files I modded (4kb)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16074172/refocusmod.zip

hope it helps
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assuming you have content scanned into your library you need to check under what would probably be skin---skin settings---home window, at this point you should see for both TV and Movies an option that says something like, Hide Movies (videos library) make sure that is not checked, and do the same for TV.


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Are you saying when you click TV Shows or Movies it opens in non-library mode? If so Just change what you have for TVShows and Movies to:
<item id="1">
<label>$LOCALIZE[342]</label>
<onclick>ActivateWindow(MyVideoLibrary,movietitles)</onclick>
<onclick>Dialog.Close(shutdownmenu)</onclick>
<visible>Library.HasContent(movies)</visible>
</item>
<item id="2">
<label>$LOCALIZE[31023]</label>
<onclick>ActivateWindow(MyVideoLibrary,tvshowtitles)</onclick>
<onclick>Dialog.Close(shutdownmenu)</onclick>
<visible>Library.HasContent(tvshows)</visible>
</item>
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Post: #18
Ok, I finally got it where I want it. Edited XML is in the .rar file attached, (backup what you have first!)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20874532/XBMCXMLHomeScreen.rar
This modifies the Video Sub-menu to only show recently added items, and adds TV & Movies to the front page (opens in library mode), Games (Through Advanced Launcher), and Pseudo TV (Get pseudo TV addon and skin from this forum

Here's screenshots of the front page and recently added submenu (edited Video menu)
[Image: xrk9b.jpg]
[Image: 432r1.jpg]
(This post was last modified: 2011-06-18 23:00 by jimmydean1.)
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Paraffin Offline
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Post: #19
Thanks a lot, I have harvested some settings and now have what I want Smile

Thanks for helping everyone
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Keeper Offline
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Post: #20
Can the skin creator PLEASE add the *option* for us, even if he doesn't like it personally, just give use the OPTION.

or can somebody ELSE please just post the correct "HomeMenu.xml" file?
(I've tried following the steps in the thread and using jimmy's file to make my own, but can't get it to work properly)

All we need is instead of videos, have Movies and Series.
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