GUIFacadeControl newbie problem

[MrBacardi]

Hello,

I'm currently developing my first MediaPortal-plugin and I'm having some very basic problems with the GUIFacadeControl.

No matter what I try I can't get any items in the list to show up on the screen.

this is my XML:

<window>
  <id>7654</id>
  <defaultcontrol>50</defaultcontrol>
  <allowoverlay>yes</allowoverlay>
  <controls>
    <import>common.window.xml</import>
    <import>common.facade.xml</import>
  </controls>
</window>

I'm trying to use the default facade-control. Is this correct?

And a snippet from my code:

            [SkinControlAttribute(50)]  protected GUIFacadeControl facadeView = null;

            facadeView = new GUIFacadeControl(GetID);
            facadeView.View = GUIFacadeControl.ViewMode.List;
            facadeView.Clear();

            facadeView.Add(new GUIListItem("item1"));
            facadeView.Add(new GUIListItem("item2"));

but the screen still turns up empty when I start my plugin.

I've tested adding some ButtonControls to the XML and they turn up OK on the screen.

But I can't get this facade to work. Can somebody please help me?

[MrBacardi]

I used the plugin-tutorial as a base for my plugin:

PluginDevelopersGuide - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation

and all that works great.

But when I try to add a GUIFacadeControl to the prosjekt nothing happens, I can't get the list displayed on screen.

If somebody could point out what code and what XML and code is necessary that would be great! because I can't seem to figure it out.

The GUIFacadeControl is not documented in:
SkinArchitecture - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation

and that makes it a bit hard to understand how to go forward.

any help is deeply appreciated!

[panni]

I've had the same problem.
It's working with the following:

<control>
        <description>composite control consisting of a list control and a thumbnail panel</description>
        <type>facadeview</type>
        <id>1201</id>
        <control>
          <description>listcontrol</description>
          <type>listcontrol</type>
          <id>1201</id>
          <scrollOffset>2</scrollOffset>
        </control>
</control>

# code

        [SkinControlAttribute(1201)]
              public GUIFacadeControl testlist = null;

# ... some function which is to fill the list:
            if (testlist == null)
            {
                testlist = new GUIFacadeControl(GetID);
            }

             testlist.View = GUIFacadeControl.ViewMode.List;

             testlist.Add(new GUIListItem("item1"));