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<blockquote data-quote="n4orcer" data-source="post: 657576" data-attributes="member: 74094">Re: Request for generic menu editorThis sounds like an great idea. That way the user would define what items and how they are arranged in the usermenu.xml and all the design/layout of the actual menu is done in the skin.Would it not also be possible to have an menulayout.xml of which the skin describes how the menu should be built. For example the menu editor could build the basichome.xml with the layout/design from menulayout.xml and use the items from the users usermenu.xml?That way the skin designer can control how the menu looks but the user controls all the items. Perhaps an option to choose between different predefined &quot;styles&quot; of basichome menus that each skin could &quot;support&quot; and just have a &lt;define&gt; in menulayout.xml that says which predefined styles the skin support aswell as it's own custom design if there is one?This is kind of what we have planned for the editor for Essence-1080p, but if there is an general editor that would work instead, a standardized editor and xml files that would be a very good thing and each skinner do not have to create there own editor if they do not want to. But if it would be a &quot;standard&quot; in how the xml files would look and how the generation would work, each editor that allready exsists could just implement that and they would all be compatible with the generic editor while providing more options for their specific skin aswell./n4orcer</blockquote>

[QUOTE="n4orcer, post: 657576, member: 74094"] [b]Re: Request for generic menu editor[/b] This sounds like an great idea. That way the user would define what items and how they are arranged in the usermenu.xml and all the design/layout of the actual menu is done in the skin. Would it not also be possible to have an menulayout.xml of which the skin describes how the menu should be built. For example the menu editor could build the basichome.xml with the layout/design from menulayout.xml and use the items from the users usermenu.xml? That way the skin designer can control how the menu looks but the user controls all the items. Perhaps an option to choose between different predefined "styles" of basichome menus that each skin could "support" and just have a <define> in menulayout.xml that says which predefined styles the skin support aswell as it's own custom design if there is one? This is kind of what we have planned for the editor for Essence-1080p, but if there is an general editor that would work instead, a standardized editor and xml files that would be a very good thing and each skinner do not have to create there own editor if they do not want to. But if it would be a "standard" in how the xml files would look and how the generation would work, each editor that allready exsists could just implement that and they would all be compatible with the generic editor while providing more options for their specific skin aswell. /n4orcer [/QUOTE]

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