skin development help (1 Viewer)

[gamejester]

I want to be able to show and hide various controls based on the status of the main list control
<id> 50

This has both a graphical list mode with a subtype album and a regualr list mode.

Could I do something like this to determin which mode the control was in

<control>
......
......
<visible>facadeview.album</visible>
</control>

If so what is the equivalent for the other text view, is it
facadeview.list


Also, I want to be able to query for the view settings, how do I determine which is showing:

Series
Season
Episode

thanks.

 

[Inker]

Hi,

did you read the skinning documentation.txt in the release rar? It explains everything you asked If you still have questions, ask of course.

 

[gamejester]

Ummmm..............no!
Did not think to look there, thought it would just be user config stuff (which I assumed I know by now)
Did read all the online stuff, WiKi, etc.... for what good it is........seems a bit laking.

That doc has exactly what I did, will be able to do exactly what I need now in my new skin; now just need to find the time to finsih it off. Might just release a TVseries only version first then do the rest of it later to get some feed back.

Are there any other useful docs you can point me towards for skining?
How are people generally creating their skin? Is there any GUI editor.
At the moment I am moking things up in Photoshop with layers, then manually translating those pix positions to the xml.