(2014-02-21, 07:34)rlaursen Wrote: Hello,
I have been trying to get custom menu items on my amber skin for a while now and have got part of it working but am stuck on the submenu item part. I followed the instructions below and was able to customize my confluence mod skin the way i want and get the favorites to transfer to my amber skin and link those menu items to the correct link. For example, my amber skin now has HD Movies as a menu item linked to hackermils 1080P but I would like to have hackermil as submenu item 1 so I can add other hd items under that main category. I think I am just missing the correct favourites.xml code to add sub menus but have no idea what to put. Any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks guys

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(2014-03-09, 02:22)denz Wrote: I will give a more detailed example first step is to open Includes.xml file that is located in skin.amber/1080i. You can use wordpad but notepad ++ is better for editing xml files.

First part is to add a menu to the home part and all the home menus are found underneath this section

<include name="Home.Main.Menu.Items">

Then lets use Custom3 as our base first copy it and paste it.

<item id="23" description="Custom3">
<visible>!IsEmpty(Skin.String(CustomHome.3.Path))</visible>
<label>$INFO[Skin.String(CustomHome.3.Label)]</label>
<thumb fallback="special://skin/backgrounds/default/default.jpg">$INFO[Skin.String(CustomHome.3.Background)]</thumb>
<onclick>$INFO[Skin.String(CustomHome.3.Path)]</onclick>
</item>

Lets make changes to this item

We need to change the id to something that has not been used before and as you can see I simplified the item removed visible tag and then you need to give action of what should that menu do in this example a notification pops up.

<item id="45" description="MyMenu1">
<label>MyMenu1</label>
<thumb fallback="special://skin/backgrounds/default/default.jpg"></thumb>
<onclick>Notification("test",0,1)</onclick>
</item>

So now that we the menu we need to add sub menus to do that we need to find the locations of sub menus and they are underneath this tag

<include name="Home.Submenu.Items">

Then similar to step one we will use existing menu as a base so this time I have chosen "Reload skin" so copy and paste this item

<item id="50" description="Reload skin">
<visible>Container(300).HasFocus(10)</visible>
<label>$LOCALIZE[20183]</label>
<onclick>XBMC.ReloadSkin()</onclick>
</item>

Now you need to give it a new id that doesn't exist. I have chosen 70 then in the visible section we need to change HasFocus(10) to the id we gave to the main menu which was 45. Then all that is left is to give the onclick action

<item id="70" description="MySubMenu1">
<visible>Container(300).HasFocus(45)</visible>
<label>Submenu1</label>
<onclick>Notification("test1",0,1)</onclick>
</item>


For the onclick action there heaps on xbmc forum

Hopefully this helps I am a newbie as well

(2014-04-29, 15:37)hstegeman Wrote: A nice workaround for making use of submenus in amber is making use of the addon super favourites. With this addon you can make folders within favourites or nested favourites

(2014-06-10, 17:09)kphammond9 Wrote:

(2014-04-29, 15:37)hstegeman Wrote: A nice workaround for making use of submenus in amber is making use of the addon super favourites. With this addon you can make folders within favourites or nested favourites

This sounds like what I'm looking to achieve. First off, Amber is awesome, thanks pecinko!

hstegeman, I saw your post in the super favourites thread asking about this. I haven't been able to figure it out... if you can point me in the right direction, here is what I'm trying to do:

I want to have a main menu item called "music" that pulls up a list of playlists. I can currently select the default music button and scroll down the menu to playlists or make buttons for each individual playlist. But I'm trying to eliminate text menus and clutter wherever I can for my wife and kids. The part I can't figure out is how to point the home screen menu button to the folder that contains the music playlists (so it lists all of them and not just one).

thanks :-)