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GUI.ActivateWindow and Movies (and window hierachy) - bossanova808 - 2024-11-04
I have a couple questions about the GUI.ActivateWindow built-in, as I am seeing some weird behaviour.
(Note I am getting the info I need via VideoPlayer.* info labels & these calls are happening
onPlaybackStopped).1. I am able to open the window for a TV show to a particular season using the
TvShowDBID using:videodb://tvshows/titles/{TvShowDBID}/{SeasonNumber}...however, when I do that, it then requires me to press back twice to go back up the hierarchy - the first time I hit back it appears to go back, but just reloads that season folder. This is janky.
Is there a way to prevent that? If I change it to:
videodb://tvshows/titles/{TvShowDBID}/{SeasonNumber}, return...I then don't need the double back, but it also means there is no hierarchy - a back will go back to wherever the user was before that point. I'd like the hierarchy to be there, but without the weird double back behaviour being required. Is that possible?
2. How do I do the same thing for a movie? I presumed it was just:
videodb://movies/titles/{DBID}'..but that is just opening the Movies root...so I think I must somehow have the wrong ID here - but I've checked, and the ID is the same as that in the
movie table in the db, though. Everything looks fine to me but it just won't work:Code:
2024-11-05 07:42:35.844 T:25320 debug <general>: JSONRPC: Incoming request: {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "GUI.ActivateWindow", "params": {"window": "videos", "parameters": ["videodb://movies/titles/2358", "return"]}}
2024-11-05 07:42:35.844 T:25320 debug <general>: ### Switchback 1.0.0: KODI JSON RPC result: {"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"OK"}
(I don't really get why there is a separate TvShowDBID and not a MovieID - and given there isn't, what ID should I be using with this to get it to open a specific movie?)
RE: GUI.ActivateWindow and Movies (and window hierachy) - bossanova808 - 2024-11-06
Anyone??
Particularly the second question - I just can't seem to get Kodi to go to a specific movie...am now testing with a keymap entry to make it much quicker, but none of these work:
ActivateWindow(videos,videodb://movies/titles/2358)ActivateWindow(videos,library://movies/titles/2358)ActivateWindow(videos,videodb://movies/titles/1822)ActivateWindow(videos,videodb://movies/2358)The ID is 100% for sure in the DB (and I have tried others just in case of a glitch with that one):
...the docs here are only list the roots: https://kodi.wiki/view/Opening_Windows_and_Dialogs
I must be missing something really obvious but I just can't see it - am I going crazy or should the above be working
? How can I navigate to a specific movie? I just don't get why it works for TV episodes but not movies....
RE: GUI.ActivateWindow and Movies (and window hierachy) - roidy - 2024-11-07
Quote:Particularly the second question - I just can't seem to get Kodi to go to a specific movie...am now testing with a keymap entry to make it much quicker, but none of these work:
ActivateWindow(videos,videodb://movies/titles/2358)
I'm not sure what you are expecting to happen here?
Movies don't have a next level to open, like a TV Show has seasons. The only thing you can do with a movie id is play the movie, I don't even think there's a way to open the info dialog for a movie using it's id.
RE: GUI.ActivateWindow and Movies (and window hierachy) - bossanova808 - 2024-11-07
Well I guess I'm hoping to open the movies / titles view...but with that movie focussed. I'm not wanting to open the info dialogue - but just to go to the natural spot the user expects to be after playing a movie (even though, in this case, the playback was triggered from elsewhere).
(I guess I never realised that the TV one was just opening the season and not focussing the played back episode, seems obvious now!)
There's no way to SetFocus (of a list) based on the id of a movie/episode is there? I guess you need to know the list item position?