ronie Wrote:i've been looking for a way to run the RecentlyAdded script in a more 'intelligent' way.
Running it everytime you enter the Home Screen if far from ideal, since many users are complaining it temporary locks up xbmc.
Using the new timer function to run the script every 30 minutes might also be overkill, since i only update my library once every few weeks.

Ideally, the script should only run once at startup and for the rest it should only run if the library has been updated.

To accomplish this, i've made the following changes to DialogMusicScan.xml and DialogVideoScan.xml:
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<defaultcontrol>1111</defaultcontrol>
....
<control type="button" id="1111">
<posx>-10</posx>
<posy>-10</posy>
<height>1</height>
<width>1</width>
<texturefocus></texturefocus>
<texturenofocus></texturenofocus>
<onfocus>Skin.SetBool(LibraryUpdated)</onfocus>
</control>
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Next, in Startup.xml add a button to set a 'Startup' boolean:
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<defaultcontrol always="true">10</defaultcontrol>
....
<control type="button" id="10">
<onfocus>Skin.SetBool(Startup)</onfocus>
<onfocus>ReplaceWindow(Home)</onfocus>
<texturenofocus>-</texturenofocus>
<texturefocus>-</texturefocus>
</control>
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Finally, in Home.xml add three buttons:
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<defaultcontrol always="true">5043</defaultcontrol>
....
<control type="button" id="5043">
<description>visible at startup</description>
<posx>-20</posx>
<posy>-20</posy>
<width>1</width>
<height>1</height>
<texturenofocus>-</texturenofocus>
<texturefocus>-</texturefocus>
<onfocus>XBMC.RunScript(special://skin/scripts/RecentlyAdded.py)</onfocus>
<onfocus>Skin.Reset(Startup)</onfocus>
<onfocus>SetFocus(9000)</onfocus>
<visible>Skin.HasSetting(Startup)</visible>
</control>
<control type="button" id="5043">
<description>visible after library update has finished</description>
<posx>-20</posx>
<posy>-20</posy>
<width>1</width>
<height>1</height>
<texturenofocus>-</texturenofocus>
<texturefocus>-</texturefocus>
<onfocus>XBMC.RunScript(special://skin/scripts/RecentlyAdded.py)</onfocus>
<onfocus>Skin.Reset(LibraryUpdated)</onfocus>
<onfocus>SetFocus(9000)</onfocus>
<visible>!Skin.HasSetting(Startup) + Skin.HasSetting(LibraryUpdated) + !Window.IsVisible(112) + !Window.IsVisible(133)</visible>
</control>
<control type="button" id="5043">
<description>visible in all other cases</description>
<posx>-20</posx>
<posy>-20</posy>
<width>1</width>
<height>1</height>
<texturenofocus>-</texturenofocus>
<texturefocus>-</texturefocus>
<onfocus>SetFocus(9000)</onfocus>
<visible>!Skin.HasSetting(Startup) + [!Skin.HasSetting(LibraryUpdated) | [Skin.HasSetting(LibraryUpdated) + [Window.IsVisible(112) | Window.IsVisible(133)]]]</visible>
</control>
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As far as i can tell this works like a charm, but maybe i've missed something?
Any feedback is appreciated.

Jezz_X Wrote:I've been thinking about this lately and have come to a couple of conlusions
1) You can probably do away with <onfocus>Skin.SetBool(Startup)</onfocus> stuff and just run the script straight from startup.xml since the only time you see that is when xbmc starts up

Jezz_X Wrote:2) this doesn't take into acount manually adding an item to the video library with the Info Key or refreshing a current item if it got scanned wrong (because dialogvideoscan.xml doesn't get called inthose cases)

Jezz_X Wrote:3) this having to guess whenthe libraries have been updated anoys the crap out of me and I really want a better way to be able to tell that its been updated and thus run the script. Hell I'd even settle for xbmc setting a skin boolean everytime it changes the lib contents so we can check it if true run the script reset it until next time its set.

ronie Wrote:when the script was first released, there was some talk about having this recently added functionality natively supported in xbmc. imo that would be the only reliable way.

ijourneaux Wrote:I am runing a SVN 26903 with Transparency 2.11. I get the following script error when ever XBMC is launched. DOes anyone have the required correction to the script? Perhaps the fix is in the Transparency SVN?

12:13:55 T:2664 M:1433468928 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
12:13:56 T:2664 M:1426853888 ERROR: Error Type: exceptions.IndexError
12:13:56 T:2664 M:1426853888 ERROR: Error Contents: list index out of range
12:13:56 T:2664 M:1426718720 ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\XBMC\skin\Transparency!\scripts\RecentlyAdded.py", line 260, in ?
Main()
File "C:\Program Files\XBMC\skin\Transparency!\scripts\RecentlyAdded.py", line 71, in __init__
self._fetch_totals()
File "C:\Program Files\XBMC\skin\Transparency!\scripts\RecentlyAdded.py", line 133, in _fetch_totals
self.WINDOW.setProperty( "TVShows.Watched" , tvshows_totals[ 2 ] or "" )
IndexError: list index out of range