hyperlink with property instead of fixed ID? (1 Viewer)

[Lehmden]

Hi.
I'm searching for a way to use a property as hyperlink target. Something like

<define property="true">#menu0.hlink:1</define>
<!-- On Push goto Television Main Screen -->
 
...
 
	<control>
	  <description>Menu 0 button</description>
	  <type>button</type>
	  <hyperlink>#menu0.hlink</hyperlink>
	  <label>#menu0.buttonlabel</label>
	</control>

"#menu0.buttonlabel" is working as expected, no problem. But if I use #menu0.hlink it did not work (exceptionystem.NullReferenceException), mostly crashing MP completely. I've tried to use #menu0.hlink, cint(#menu0.hlink), (cint(#menu0.hlink)), nothing worked. If I'm using "onclick" I can get it to work with property, but onclick did not react on pushing, only on clicking (as name let expect)

As in Wiki hyperlink expects a string so normally "<hyperlink>#menu0.hlink</hyperlink>" should work
hyperlink [history] String
The id of the xml skin page that MP will load when the button is pushed

Bu the only way I found to really get it working is using "<hyperlink>1</hyperlink>". But this is nothing I can use as hyperlink target should be changeable by end-user.
Did someone know how to solve this?

 

[Zoidberg77]

Hi,
this is working without problems here. I used it a lot in my Titan theme. I use it without property="true" but in a quick test it worked with property="true" too.

 

[Lehmden]

Hi
Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
btw I have to use "property="true" as I define them in another xml file (not skinsettings.xml) If I don't use "property="true" the defines are valid only in the file in which it is declared...

I will try to download your theme, if possible and have a look there. If it's not possible, could you please copy/paste a working example here, thanks.

 

[Zoidberg77]

Hi,
I tested following:
I added a definition to common.time.xml, which is the first import in my BasicHome.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<window>
 
<define>#submenu1.hyperlink1:30</define>
 
<controls>

BasicHome.xml imports BasicHome.submenus.xml and there is following control:

<control>
		<description>SUB ITEM 0</description>
		<type>button</type>
		<id>20001</id>
		<label>#submenu1.label1</label>
		<width>300</width>
		<hyperlink>#submenu1.hyperlink1</hyperlink>
		<hyperlinkParameter>#submenu1.hyperlinkparameter1</hyperlinkParameter>
		<textureFocus>-</textureFocus>
		<textureNoFocus>-</textureNoFocus>
		<font>fontB14</font>
		<textcolor>FFFFFFFF</textcolor>
		<textalign>left</textalign> 
		<textcolorNoFocus>60ffffff</textcolorNoFocus>
		<onleft>1900</onleft>
		<onright>1902</onright>
		<ondown>1901</ondown>
		<onup>#submenu1.label1.onup</onup>
		<visible allowhiddenfocus="true">[!string.equals(#submenu1.label1,)]+[control.isvisible(20000)]</visible>
		</control>

This does work here with and without property="true".
Also I figured out I will only need the property="true" attribute if I want to do some math like string.equal(#submenu1.hyperlink1)...

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.
I really can't get it to work the way I want...
If I define the property inside main basichome.xml it's working. But this is not the way I need it to work. I can't understand why this single property can not be imported... All other properties are working as epected...

  <define property="true">#menu0.back:Animations\BasicHome\mytv.jpg</define>
  <define property="true">#menu0.label:Fernsehen</define>
  <define property="true">#menu0.buttonlabel:Fernsehen</define>
  <define property="true">#menu0.link:1</define>

#menu0.back, #menu0.label and #menu0.buttonlabel are working like a charm used in this control:

<control>
	  <description>Menu 0 button</description>
	  <type>button</type>
	  <id>2</id>
	  <font>font12</font>
	  <textXOff>0</textXOff>
	  <textYOff>0</textYOff>
	  <width>230</width>
	  <textalign>center</textalign>
	  <hyperlink>#menu0.link</hyperlink>
	  <textureNoFocus></textureNoFocus>
	  <textureFocus>empty.png</textureFocus>
	  <label>#menu0.buttonlabel</label>
	  <onleft>260</onleft>
	  <onright>210</onright>
	  <onup>202</onup>
	  <ondown>1111</ondown>
	  <textcolorNoFocus>FFE9967A</textcolorNoFocus>
</control>

Why did #menu0.link leads MP to crash????

 

[Zoidberg77]

Hi,
I just tested again. Definition #menu0.link:1 placed in common.time.xml and called in BasicHome.xml. Does work without problems, as well as with or without property="true". I have no clue what's going wrong in your setup, sorry.

 

[Holzi]

Maybe Logs could help here? (of the crash)