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<blockquote data-quote="eightyf" data-source="post: 153051" data-attributes="member: 50694">Hi rtv,thanks for your prompt answer - I just haven't got round to learning C (#,+ or ++), just some scripting languages, which are derivatives.Actually I don't want to change the behaviour of the controls (if that's not possible without recoding), but I'd love to at least understand what they do.Where can I find this information? Only in the source code?OK, I know it's preposterous, but since you were so kind to answer my posting...Let's take the View-as-button as example.From the controls tree in the editor, I drag a button template to the screen, assign an ID 2 for it. Now it's an View-as-button and the labels cycle through when pressing this button.I guess I now need to insert a listcontrol, a thumbnailpanel and... hmmm a filmstrip control. Those get IDs somewhere between 10 and 13 (dunno the exact ones).How does MP know now, what to display?Since listcontrol, thumbnailpanel etc. are all templates which can be used for any kind of list?On my example page (myDVds.xml) all imported video files are displayed. Where is the reference to this page and why aren't - say - my music files displayed?Or is there a kind of &quot;mapping&quot;, which defines: if a thumbnail panel is inserted on the mydvds.xml page, it will show video files, whereas if it is inserted into mypics.xml it will show photo thumbnails?I think - or strongly hope - if I once understand the relation of the templates, functions, IDs and controls I could begin skinning. Right now, it's more like: dragging a button here or there, changing IDs and see what happens.Thank you for your patienceAndré</blockquote>

[QUOTE="eightyf, post: 153051, member: 50694"] Hi rtv, thanks for your prompt answer - I just haven't got round to learning C (#,+ or ++), just some scripting languages, which are derivatives. Actually I don't want to change the behaviour of the controls (if that's not possible without recoding), but I'd love to at least understand what they do. Where can I find this information? Only in the source code? OK, I know it's preposterous, but since you were so kind to answer my posting... Let's take the View-as-button as example. From the controls tree in the editor, I drag a button template to the screen, assign an ID 2 for it. Now it's an View-as-button and the labels cycle through when pressing this button. I guess I now need to insert a listcontrol, a thumbnailpanel and... hmmm a filmstrip control. Those get IDs somewhere between 10 and 13 (dunno the exact ones). How does MP know now, what to display? Since listcontrol, thumbnailpanel etc. are all templates which can be used for any kind of list? On my example page (myDVds.xml) all imported video files are displayed. Where is the reference to this page and why aren't - say - my music files displayed? Or is there a kind of "mapping", which defines: if a thumbnail panel is inserted on the mydvds.xml page, it will show video files, whereas if it is inserted into mypics.xml it will show photo thumbnails? I think - or strongly hope - if I once understand the relation of the templates, functions, IDs and controls I could begin skinning. Right now, it's more like: dragging a button here or there, changing IDs and see what happens. Thank you for your patience André [/QUOTE]

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