Can screens be parameterized?

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Can screens be parameterized?

Postby WannaTheater on Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:23 pm

Lets say I have 2 categories; movies_family, movies_mature

I have screens to display plot, actors, and coverart:
movies_mature_plot
movies_mature_actors
movies_mature_coverart
movies_family_plot
movies_family_actors
movies_family_coverart

Is there a way to "parameterize" fields dispayed, so I could use only 3 screens:
movies_plot
movies_actors
movies_coverart

Inside the text fields used to display info I would need something like "category>my_category>plot", where my_category could be set by the calling screen? Can this be accomplished?
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Re: Can screens be parameterized?

Postby defrag on Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:19 am

this is easily done by having one category on screen and filling it with the set database command in events. I do this in my skin to toggle between 5 databases but only use a few screens.
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Re: Can screens be parameterized?

Postby WannaTheater on Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:11 am

Great! I'll give it a shot.
Thanks!
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