@time and @date not updating

[Digital712]

In another thread:

This is really something you need to manage yourself. If you use the @time variable in a cached image, then it wont be updated. If you expect the user to use this variable, then you need to make sure that composite image is non-cached.

How do you make sure the image it not cached? I'm trying to use @time and @date but it never updates on the main menu or the built in plugins.

Can I add:

<DrawText text="@date" loc="25,6" size="150,34" textStyle="TitleDate" align="Left"/>
<DrawText text="@time" loc="585,6" size="120,34" textStyle="TitleTime" align="Left"/>

Somewhere outside <CompositeImage name="Background"...> and have it up date?

I'm trying to keep the time and date in the upper right and left corners on every screen/plugin. So the header is always the same except the Screenname/Title. It really helps give more feeling of uniformity.

Like this:
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Another advantage is I (we) can simply copy and paste the Title stuff from one XML to another and have it work, rather than mess around with the clock in VA on the main menu, builtin cock in the TVGuide etc..

Sorry to be a pest, the more I skin the more I wan't to tweek.

Thanks

Tony

[sub]

Sorry, but this isnt going to work. Its not something you can just change in the skin files. Plugins need to have been explicitly coded to use SkinHelper.getNamedImageNonCached() instead of SkinHelper.getNamedImage() for the background for this to work, and would also need to return true to needsRendering() to force a screen update. Unfortunately that is not true for the majority of plugins.

It'll only really work with screens that are built to behave that way, like the TV Guide.

[Digital712]

Well, your no fun.

I'll work around it the best I can then.

Thanks,

Tony

[Fatman_do]

I'll work around it the best I can then.

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