Basic skinning techniques

[mph070770]

I hope someone can help. I'm trying to understand how navigation from screen to screen is defined.

For example, I'm using the default Xlobby screen. When moving from the main menu to music, I want to bypass the "Music Layouts" screen and jump straight to the "Generic Window". How is this controlled?

Thanks

[P3rv3rt B3ar]

Theres command xlobby:goto screen, u use that in event with screenname as parameter. Then u add this event for example to a button.

EDIT as clarification: u define events as sequence of commands in Events tab of setup (F2). u use skin editor (pause/break) to associate newly defined event to a button. Screenname to be used as parameter for that command is filename of .xml file defining the screen, without extension.

[mph070770]

P3rv3rt B3ar,

Thanks for your help. I can see how this works now. However, how do you do it on the "menu" screen? Here, the button function can change (music, movies, setup etc) I must need to know what is highlighted and then make a decision to which screen to jump to.

Any clues?

Cheers

Martin

[cmhardwick]

the menu is actually another database. To change the events, you'll need to CAREFULLY edit the actual XML file (xlobby\menu.xml I believe).Look for the music entry and there will be a line something like this
<event>generic:goto screen music</event>

Change the screen name to the name of the generic music screen. I don't know what it is off hand since I'm at work. start xlobby again after this and you should be OK. For some reason, teh events tag isn't editable in the standard database editor for the menu database

[S Pittaway]

you can do it using the database editor-

go into the settings dialog
select databses
click on the menu database you want t change
click edit

you can now see the database entries, if you click on the advanced tab you can select a click event.

you can also setup up and conrols you want to auto show/hide.




Sean.

[cmhardwick]

OH, I was looking for the the "event" tag down below on the first screen.

Thanks sir!! MUCH easier!

[mph070770]

Thanks everyone for your help - got it working. It's all making much more sense now. Thanks! What a great piece of sw.

Cheers,

Martin

[S Pittaway]

yep, all we need now is the price