GUI List Control

[JestriK]

Hello,

I am currently developing my first plugin for MP (a PDF ebook reader). I have read the "how to develop your first plugin" but that doesn't seem to help with this. I am trying to add a list control to my GUI which will load all the names of the ebooks into it - a similar layout to the my music plugin.

At the moment I am just trying to add an item to the list but it just doesn't show!

I'm initialising the list control with the following -

[SkinControlAttribute(21)]
        protected GUIListControl lstEbooks = null;

Then trying to add an item to it with the following -

lstEbooks.Add(new GUIListItem("A new item!"));

This the part in my XML file that declares the facade view (borrowed this from the My Music plugin) -

		<control>
			<type>group</type>
			<description>group element</description>
			<animation>FlyInFromTop</animation>
			<posX>120</posX>
			<posY>97</posY>
			<width>50</width>
			<height>60</height>
			<control>
				<description>composite control consisting of a list control and a thumbnail panel</description>
				<type>facadeview</type>
				<id>20</id>
				<control>
					<description>listcontrol</description>
					<type>listcontrol</type>
					<id>21</id>
					<width>50</width>
					<height>60</height>
					<onleft>2</onleft>
					<onright>51</onright>
					<onup>2</onup>
					<ondown>2</ondown>
					<textcolor>FFFFFFFF</textcolor>
				</control>
				<control>
					<description>Thumbnail Panel</description>
					<type>thumbnailpanel</type>
					<id>22</id>
					<onleft>2</onleft>
					<onright>52</onright>
					<onup>2</onup>
					<ondown>2</ondown>
				</control>
			</control>

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
JestriK

[JestriK]

Just to make it clearer, this is what i can see on my screen -

[JestriK]

OK, since my last post have figured out what I was doing wrong - I should be using a GUIFacadeControl.

Now I've got that sorted that out, I have the code below.

private void LoadList(string currentDirectory)
{
  ArrayList arry = new ArrayList();
  arry.Add(".pdf");
  virtualDirectory.SetExtensions(arry);

  List<GUIListItem> items = virtualDirectory.GetDirectoryExt(currentDirectory);

  facadeView.Clear();

  for (int i = 0; items.Count > i; i++)
    facadeView.Add(items[0]);
}

When it gets to adding the items to the facade control it throws the following exception -

OnMessage exception:System.DivideByZeroException: Attempted to divide by zero.
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIListControl.Add(GUIListItem item)
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIFacadeControl.Add(GUIListItem item)
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIFacadeControl.OnMessage(GUIMessage message)
   at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindow.OnMessage(GUIMessage message)

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong, because I'm stumped!

Cheers,
JestriK

[JestriK]

I have now fixed this too, it seems there was something wrong with my XML file, I rewrote it and it now seems to work

Sorry for all the posts!

Cheers,
Jes_triK

[mbuzina]

Don't say sorry (sorry nobody answered!). It is good to show what pitfalls there are for developing.

[dukus]

Try someting like :

private void LoadList(string currentDirectory)
{
  ArrayList arry = new ArrayList();
  arry.Add(".pdf");
  virtualDirectory.SetExtensions(arry);

  List<GUIListItem> items = virtualDirectory.GetDirectoryExt(currentDirectory);

  facadeView.Clear();

  for (int i = 0; items.Count= > i; i++)
    facadeView.Add(items[i]);
}