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v18 - is it possible to get widgets from plugins ?
try trying to make custon menu items for plugins tryed all the ways i can think off i can get and image to work but dose not look right <control type="button" id="1010">...
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Trying to put together a simple wraplist that zooms on the focused item. I've pretty much got it figured out. However, I can't seem to get the x-coordinate straight for this. Note: I've put "0"...
View ArticleMigrating a Jarvis skin to Leia
I'm testing the new MVC 3D fork of Kodi 18 Leia but immediately ran into the issue of my customized skin not working. I've updated the addon.xml to the new engine version but the main menu...
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Library Data Provider / DialogVideoInfo Problem
im searching for a solution… i want to show DialogVideoInfo from a list with static list content from a customwindow with Library Data Provider: <control type="wraplist" id="9502"> <visible...
View ArticleUI/UX
Far out, the UI/UX for Kodi is heinous! It makes me want to pull my hair out every time I use it. Are there any plans to improve the UI/UX? I've been a UI dev for the last 10+ years and I swear to god...
View ArticleConditional on font tag
Hi, can i use a conditional to make the font be bigest, if addon name is equal to i'm pass?. for example the first is the bigest font for addon that i want and the othrt is the default font size. is...
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Animating Pictures Slideshow?
Does anyone know of a way to apply transition animations to Slideshow.xml I would like to achieve a slide transition animation similar to a fullscreen wraplist control when navigating left/right....
View ArticleListItem.SubtitleLanguage populated randomly(?)
I'm trying to get info about subtitle presence in the list view (e.g. TV show episodes). I tried adding the following to my indicator but it seems to work only on some episodes...
View ArticleRequest - Eminence Skin - automatic use of .gif poster that are stored...
Hello Guys, is there a way to automatic scrap the .gif movie poster that i have stored locally on my HDD? i put them in the same folder as my movies but they won't show up i have to choose each...
View Article'fullscreen' action from custom window?
I've got a custom window with video containers, video is playing in background. I've tried multiple methods to use 'fullscreen' onback but none seems to work. I was able to hack this using...
View ArticleSet PVR timer for ListItem.NextTitle iitem in MyPVRChannels.xml
I'm trying to figure out a way to have a button which sets a timer to record the next show coming up on the currently focused channel in MyPVRChannels.xml - is this possible or is this an epg only sort...
View ArticleListItem.DBType for m3u playlists
I've been updating media views and simplifying things by using ListItem.DBtype to control what info is displayed. It generally works very well. The one place where I need to code around a problem is...
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Playlist Item displayed at the beginning of dynamic content from a smart...
Hi Everybody, I have some custom menu items that can take the user to a custom defined playlist for example: TV-Y7 Kid's Shows. After clicking on the Item with the assigned playlist, one gets the...
View ArticleSlider Control Textures explanation
HI Everybody, can some please provide an explanation as to how the individual texture tags of the slider control work, specially the border attribute which can contain for digits e.g. whats does...
View ArticleEmpty sking with a simple label is blank.
Hello Everyone, I am trying to create the simplest skin possible from scratch but am having some trouble. Below is the contents of my Home.xml which should display a label somewhere on the screen,...
View ArticleAuto Populating the Videos Control List
Hello, I am trying to create a minimal skin which lists the appropriate items under a given window. I have found that the following works in MyVideoNav.xml http://ix.io/1yUZ However if I change id to...
View ArticleExcluding generated list items.
I am trying to hide certain list items that get automatically generated by kodi. Specifically I would like to hide the ".." item in a video source list. I can conditionally set the visibility using...
View ArticleUnderstanding List Controls
I have a simple list of the kind below and am trying to get the left and right buttons to behave as expected. http://ix.io/1BXn In desperation I have right adding <onright>82</onright> and...
View Articlehow to edit the systemsetting options
I made a shortcut onclick to be directed to systemsettings but I want to edit for example to hide add-ons option or debug option can I do that?
View Articleany reason why ListItem.Tag is inconsistent with TV Shows dbtype?
It's listed in infolabels as well (although it's not rare that wiki is not updated), but is there any good reason for it? makes my life harder than it should. Seems to work just under MyVideoNav...
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