Difference between Label and Texture parsing? (1 Viewer)

[ddlooping]

Hello and Merry Christmas to you all.

If I change a movie certification manually to "disc.png" and use..
<texture>#MovingPictures.SelectedMovie.certification</texture>
... the image "disc.png" does not appear.
The text "disc.png" appears if I use the same variable as a label though.

Howcome?

TIA

 

[fforde]

My guess would be that it can not find the file "disc.png". I think for images by default it looks in the "Media" folder of whatever skin you are using. If your image is not in there, then you should be using an absolute path (i.e. C:\MYIMAGES\disc.png).

Fundamentally though what you are trying to do should work.

 

[ddlooping]

Thanks for the reply, John, but I did copy the image to both the "Mediatream" and the "Mediatream/Media" folder, just to make sure.

 

[fforde]

not sure what to tell you then. Maybe there is an issue with the way you have your image control setup in your XML file? You may try asking over on the skin developers forum. There is no difference between the properties passed with text (like for genre) and properties with an image file used for images like the backdrop or cover though... so from a plug-in stand-point what you are doing should be working.

 

[ddlooping]

Ok, thanks again John, I'll look into it more in depth when I have the time.