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simne7
simne7

Reputation: 304

How to display list item tags in a kodi skin

I'm trying to customize the default Kodi skin 'estuary'. My plan is to display the tags of a movie next to the movie title.

The skin uses $INFO[ListItem.Tag] in the DialogVideoInfo.xml template file and Kodi displays the tags nicely when opening the video info screen.

But when I use the $INFO[ListItem.Tag] variable inside e.g. MyVideoNav.xml template nothing is displayed. Here's how I changed the default MyVideoNav.xml template

...
<control type="textbox">
    <left>30</left>
    <top>240</top>
    <width>525</width>
    <bottom>100</bottom>
    <visible>!ListItem.IsCollection</visible>
    <label>Tags: "$INFO[ListItem.Tag]"[CR][CR]$INFO[ListItem.Tagline,[I],[/I][CR][CR]]$INFO[ListItem.Plot][CR][CR]</label>
    <autoscroll delay="10000" time="3000" repeat="10000">Skin.HasSetting(autoscroll)</autoscroll>
</control>
...

No matter if the movie is assigned to a tag or not what I see is always Tags: ""

Edit You find the whole MyVideoNav.xml here: https://pastebin.com/dHqyQpHx. In line 52 you'll find my change.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2073

Answers (1)

Rachit kapadia
Rachit kapadia

Reputation: 701

You should use <label>$INFO[ListItem.Tagline]</label> you need to create list item for Tagline first in DialogVideoInfo.xml

Add few lines in DialogVideoInfo.xml (for item-layout) after line no 306 :-

  <control type="label">
        <left>25</left>
        <width>214</width>
        <height>67</height>
        <top>245</top>
        <align>center</align>
        <aligny>center</aligny>
        <font>font12</font>
        <textcolor>grey</textcolor>
        <label>$INFO[ListItem.Tagline]</label>
    </control>

And Also after line no 360 :

<control type="label">
        <left>25</left>
        <width>214</width>
        <height>67</height>
        <top>245</top>
        <align>center</align>
        <aligny>center</aligny>
        <font>font12</font>
        <textcolor>grey</textcolor>
         <scroll>true</scroll>
        <label>$INFO[ListItem.Tagline]</label>
    </control>

NOTE: adjust Width and Height by yourself. Now you can add and use <label>$INFO[ListItem.Tagline]</label> in MyVideoNav.xml

Hope this helps..!

Upvotes: 0

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