How to display Cast Actor image on custom page?
Hello I have plan to create my custom Video View page similar Plex Web-page. Here is Plex Web-page for casting I want. Yes, I know on Kodi how to display this (Conext Menu) on Kodi Skin -...
View ArticleTriggering animations onclick for windowclose
Hi, I have a fade out/in animation on Window Close/Open between my home and viewscreens, which is fine. I need to trigger some controls in dialogs (e.g. volumebar) at the start of the animation (i.e....
View ArticleToggleDebug
I have a small issue where the debug overlay always loads as ON and I cant figure out why? I have tried to ToggleDebug to off and then do a full shutdown and reboot, but every time it comes back. It...
View ArticleTranslating your skin at Weblate
Dear skinners. Kodi is migrated translations from Transifex to Weblate: https://kodi.weblate.cloud We are now opening up for official addons to be included. Currently we have some minor things to sort...
View ArticleFolder Name Look-Up to get artwork
Calling out to all the skinning guru's... So, I ran a small test yesterday to see if I could get local landscape artwork to display on my PVR Recording screen by placing half a dozen landscape images...
View Articlexbmcgui.WindowXMLDialog
Hi, Why is only pal/ntsc, 720 and 1080 res available for xbmcgui.WindowXMLDialog in addons? I would like to use another aspect ratio eg. 21:9 for my addon skin is this possible? defaultRes – [opt]...
View ArticleMultiple fonts on a label ... emojis
Hi, I'm working on a plugin and wanted to have support for unicode emojis. I looked at the default fonts from estuary which are the noto fonts from google. There is a emoji ttf ... but it's a separate...
View ArticlePVR TV Guide on home screen like SkyQ
Hi guys. I have completely modified estuary skin to look like sky q. Sky q is a uk based tv provider. One of the features on sky q is the tv guide on the main home screen where the widgets would be. Is...
View ArticleCan controls have background colors?
Hello, I've been digging through the skinning manuals, and I can't seem to find a definitive answer to my question. Can controls, such as a label or a list of sorts, have a background color? For...
View ArticleMain Menu Double Row
Hi, on my own skin I would like my main menu to be two horizontal rows . Currently I have a single row of horizontal frames/panels each containing a "[ListItem.Icon]" and a Label. I have seen a number...
View ArticleSeason name at episode level
Is there an info label or easy way to get the season name, not number, at the episode level? Thanks
View ArticleArtist/Album shortcuts based on MusicPlayer
Is there a way to create a path to the Artist or Album of the currently playing song based on the MusicPlayer or Player infolabels? The best i can come up with so far is:...
View ArticleChange the time seek bar/osd shows when playback starts
Hello all, Is there any way to change the length of time the seek bar/OSD shows at the start of media playback? I do not know how to change this from the skin's side. I know that skin helper service...
View ArticleEPGgrid modification or coding?
I was wondering if its possible to have the EPG look like the guides used by either Verizon FIOS/Google Live Channels or Oneguide where the focused channel row also gives the full description of the...
View ArticleHow can I disabled the information Window, mouse position?
How can I disabled the information Window, mouse position?
View ArticleProblem with ListItem.Rating and conditionals
This is my first post on the forum. I hope you can help me. I have introduced a small modification in my personal skin. This way, depending on the score of a movie the text label shows a different...
View ArticlePlayerControl(next) not working in MusicOSD list container
I have a list / wraplist of buttons in the MusicOSD. PlayerControl(previous) (and others) work, but PlayerControl(next) does not. I saw a complaint about this from way back in 2011! A workaround of...
View Article[split] Changes to the skinning engine for Kodi Matrix
is the new info label ListItem.ReleaseDate still stored in the premiered tags? if so it is not working as it returns no data.
View ArticleAddonInfo window buttons
Can someone please clarify what are the required buttons in the AddonInfo window on Matrix? The confuse part is about button id="8" which until Leia and according to the wiki its the "Update" button...
View ArticleFavourites workaround not working
Prior to v19 I was able to edit favourites.xml like so... PHP Code:<favourites> <favourite name="Test">LoadProfile(Test)</favourite></favourites> ... then assign to a skin...
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