List of Skin Elements

[ACTCMS]

Is there an API which returns a list of the Elements in the currently active skin file?

or alternatively, is there an easy of finding out the name of the current skin file since it may depend on the current TV shape?

or do I need to work it out from first principles?

[sub]

There isnt really an API for a plugin to enumerate the Elements in the plugin's skin file. Its not something we've ever needed since plugin's typically know what Elements they need to function. If your plugin has some optional element which may or may not be defined in the skin, then you can use the 'skinHelper.ElementIsDefined("xxxxxx")' method to check if it's there or not.

Does this answer your question or is there something else specific you're trying to do but cant currently?

[sub]

The plugin can also call skinHelper.GetBackingDocument() to get the XmlDocument, which you could use directly if you really needed to.

[mvallevand]

That's what I use in WebRadio because I found that Default action wan't being defined in most cases

Code:

XmlNode xn = skinHelper.GetBackingDocument().SelectSingleNode("/Skin/Element[@name='CoversItemCoverArt']");

Martin

[ACTCMS]

My screensaver plugin allows the user to scroll through the elements in the skin to match what they are doing - playing music, photo slideshow or both. It's also designed to allow the user to add their own elements (which I know nothing about until my code is running).

It's not a major problem - MLPanel uses the XmlDataDocument class to look inside the skin in pvrx2 and I'm happy enough to do the same in NPVR. I just thought I'd ask in case there was something I had missed...

I know there can be a skin.xml and a skin-4x3.xml - are there any other possible suffixes?

[ACTCMS]

The plugin can also call skinHelper.GetBackingDocument() to get the XmlDocument, which you could use directly if you really needed to.

That's what I use in WebRadio because I found that Default action wan't being defined in most cases

Code:

XmlNode xn = skinHelper.GetBackingDocument().SelectSingleNode("/Skin/Element[@name='CoversItemCoverArt']");

Martin

As usual, me too slow

That's the answer though... thanks

[sub]

I know there can be a skin.xml and a skin-4x3.xml - are there any other possible suffixes?

skin.xml, skin-4x3.xml, skin-16x9.xml, but I'd just use that GetBackDocument() API to get the XmlDocument.

[ACTCMS]

note to self... learn to type (and maybe think) a bit faster...