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[Kurtis]

Pardon me if this is a stupid newbie quesiton, but is it possible to make one control dependent on the visibility of another?

Use case: I see a lot of the widescreen skins are moving to the full window width view for icon view, which makes sense (it looks like the Vista Media Center album view, for instance) but, frankly, that screen real estate is wasted in list view. It would be nice to make list view more like the apple TV view (where you set aside a large chunk of that space for a big cover art image) but there's no way to make that big image ONLY show up with the list control as far as I can see.

If there isn't a way to currently do this, it seems like this one use case could be done pretty easily in the code, and I'll look into it. I was just making sure there isn't a more general way.

 

[mirk]

Its possible to control other controls visibility with this code:

         <control>
		<description>Movies</description>
		<type>button</type>
		<id>3</id>
		<posX>0</posX>
		<posY>0</posY>
		<width>1280</width>
		<height>720</height>
		<textureFocus>-</textureFocus>
		<hyperlink>6</hyperlink>
		<label>3</label>
  		<textcolor>00ffffff</textcolor>
		<onleft>2</onleft>
		<onright>14</onright>
		<onup>21</onup>
		<ondown>23</ondown>
		<textXOff>-100</textXOff>
                <textYOff>16</textYOff>
		[B]<visible>Control.IsVisible(3)</visible>[/B]
	</control>

But in the way you try to use it, its not possible. This becorce all view controls has the same Control ID. Witch will make the conditional controls also show in thumbs and filmstrip view. I have my self tryed to find a way around this many times but had no luck.

 

[rsparey]

I have this problem as well with foofaraw.. And also have found no way around it. It would be great if there was a way to add support for this in to the skinning engine.

 

[mofux]

we (or better hwahrmann) just intodruced a way to make this working...

there are a few new visible tags now that you can use:

#albumViewVisible
#filmstripViewVisible
#largeiconsViewVisible
#listViewVisible
#playlistViewVisible
#smalliconsViewVisible

those are set by the value of the fascade control. so if you are in filmstrip view f.e.

#filmstripViewVisible will be set to true...

you can then use that to show / hide any information you want using the visible property of each control like this:

<control>
....
<description>some image or any other control, could also be a group</description>
<visible>#filmstripViewVisible</visible>
</control>

so that control would only show up when the filmstripview is selected...

it will be available in the next public svn build after we made some tests if it's working. big big thanks to hwahrmann!

 

[DarkWader]

exelent

 

[mofux]

there have been some minor problems hwahrmann first needs to fix, but i'm sure that feature is available soon (at least monay)...

 

[hwahrmann]

It's a bit different then mofux described above.
needed to change something.

Based on which Viewmode you are, you can set the visibility of controls.
the view modes are specified with:
facadeview.album
facadeview.filmstrip
facadeview.list
facadeview.largeicons
facadeview.playlist
facadeview.smallicons


so if you want a specific control to appear only, while for example in List view:

<control>
....
<description>some image or any other control, could also be a group</description>
<visible>facadeview.list</visible>
</control>

works from SVN 15491

 

[mofux]

wohooo, thanks!

 

[DarkWader]

Get this in the wiki, or pin the topic please.

 

[Kurtis]

Well, shoot. Should've paid attention to the topic, I guess.

I solved the limited use case: I added a "preview" image to the list control that lets you define four XML tags:

previewPosX
previewPosY
previewWidth
previewHeight

and if they're defined renders an image of #selectedthumb at that location when the list control itself is rendered.

It works fine, and I'm gonna put the patch here if the devs are interested. It'd be pretty easy to allow a fifth tag (something like videoPreviewIfAvailable) that would define not a GUIImage, but a playing video preview if the file has video data instead.

Anyway, looks good all around, I guess.