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launch manually the playlist process "Scanning media information"
When you have a huge playlist you can see "Scanning media information" before "playlist" was displayed. This process must be a part of Kodi core that run automatically when Windows ID "musicplaylist"...
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Square Background Sections? Including in the FixedList? Various List types??
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View ArticleQ: ListItem.DateAdded not working for Music Library Items ??
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View ArticleSelect a skins colour theme.
Is there any way to change the skins colour theme, like an <onclick>SetColorTheme(blue)</onclick> kind of function? I can't see any sort of function in the wiki. I'd like on first start up...
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View ArticleDetect if a resource image doesn't exist
As the title says how can you detect if a resource image doesn't exist? In my studio and genre view I'm using a resource pack to display the study / genre icon like so:- <control type="image">...
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View Articlehow to make this string work for every folder at the same time
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Can't use $COMMA in SetProperty
As the title says possible bug? Works:- <label>test$COMMAtest</label> Fails:- SetProperty(my prop,test$COMMAtest,home) The property is empty
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View ArticleHow are Containers/ListItems initialized?
Hi, I'm a newbie in Kodi skin development and I would like to understand how the Containers/ListItems are initialized, but I haven't find any clear explanation on the Kodi's development site or with...
View ArticleBookmarks window as a list
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Q: advancedsettings. (imageres|fanartres)tags - force issues for BOOKMARKhumbs
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