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<blockquote data-quote="damaster" data-source="post: 301509" data-attributes="member: 60795">I used the menu generator to add a button for the BluRay/HD-DVD plugin to my BasicHome.&nbsp; A couple of comments/questions:1) It would be really great if the tool could just load the current list of items from the selected window.&nbsp; I only wanted to add one item and had to re-create the entire menu of items for BasicHome (movies, tv, plugins, settings, music, radio, weather, etc.).2) After it generated my basichome.xml, MediaPortal couldn't load it (parse error).&nbsp; This is because I used the following string for my new menu item: &quot;BD &amp; HD-DVD&quot;.&nbsp; The '&amp;' character was not correctly escaped in the generated XML and thus the parse error.&nbsp; This is a BUG: certain characters should be escaped during XML generation to avoid parse errors: &amp; -&gt; &amp;amp;' -&gt; &amp;apos;&quot; -&gt; &amp;quot; &gt; -&gt; &amp;gt; &lt; -&gt; &amp;lt;3) Now that I have a generated basichome.xml, none of the buttons do anything.&nbsp; How do I make the buttons work, which IDs should I use?&nbsp; Again, if the tool would load in the original basichome.xml then this wouldn't be a problem.&nbsp; In addition, it should allow the user to specify the ID for any newly added buttons.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="damaster, post: 301509, member: 60795"] I used the menu generator to add a button for the BluRay/HD-DVD plugin to my BasicHome. A couple of comments/questions: 1) It would be really great if the tool could just load the current list of items from the selected window. I only wanted to add one item and had to re-create the entire menu of items for BasicHome (movies, tv, plugins, settings, music, radio, weather, etc.). 2) After it generated my basichome.xml, MediaPortal couldn't load it (parse error). This is because I used the following string for my new menu item: "BD & HD-DVD". The '&' character was not correctly escaped in the generated XML and thus the parse error. This is a BUG: certain characters should be escaped during XML generation to avoid parse errors: & -> & ' -> ' " -> " > -> > < -> < 3) Now that I have a generated basichome.xml, none of the buttons do anything. How do I make the buttons work, which IDs should I use? Again, if the tool would load in the original basichome.xml then this wouldn't be a problem. In addition, it should allow the user to specify the ID for any newly added buttons. [/QUOTE]

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