HOW-TO:HelloWorld addon
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Introduction
This How To will explain several ways on showing a "Hello World" opup on screen
Examples
Using xbmc modules
Simple example using xbmc python modules showing a notification dialog that will show for 5 seconds.
using build-in functions
More info on Built-In functions can be found here: List_of_built-in_functions
import xbmc __addon__ = xbmcaddon.Addon(id='script.hello.world') __addonname__ = __addon__.getAddonInfo('name') __icon__ = __addon__.getAddonInfo('icon') line1 = "This is a simple example of notifications" time = 5000 #in miliseconds xbmc.executebuiltin('Notification("__addonname__",line1,time,__icon__)')
using xbmcgui module
This will show a OK dilaog box with the message More info on xbmcgui functions can be found here: [ http://mirrors.xbmc.org/docs/python-docs/xbmcgui.html#Dialog ]
import xbmc import xbmcgui __addon__ = xbmcaddon.Addon(id='script.hello.world') __addonname__ = __addon__.getAddonInfo('name') __icon__ = __addon__.getAddonInfo('icon') line1= "This is a simple example of notifications" xbmcgui.Dialog().ok(__addonname__, line1)
Using JSON-RPC
Using xbmc modules & JSON-RPC API
More info on JSON-RPC API can be found here: JSON-RPC_API
This JSON-RPC command send through various ways and will execute the addon code that is shown below.
{ 'jsonrpc': '2.0', 'id': 0, 'method': 'Addons.ExecuteAddon', 'params': { 'addonid': 'script.popup', 'params': { 'image': 'D:\\heartagram.jpg', 'line1': 'Hello World', 'line2': 'Showing this message using', 'line3': 'Combination of XBMC python modules and', 'line4': 'JSON-RPC API interface', 'line5': 'Have fun coding', } } }
This python code will create several controls using xbmcgui module and fill these will the message send through JSON-RPC:
import xbmcgui import sys import urlparse class PopupWindow(xbmcgui.WindowDialog): def __init__(self, image, line1, line2, line3, line4, line5): self.addControl(xbmcgui.ControlImage(x=25, y=25, width=150, height=150, filename=image[0])) self.addControl(xbmcgui.ControlLabel(x=190, y=25, width=500, height=25, label=line1[0])) self.addControl(xbmcgui.ControlLabel(x=190, y=50, width=500, height=25, label=line2[0])) self.addControl(xbmcgui.ControlLabel(x=190, y=75, width=500, height=25, label=line3[0])) self.addControl(xbmcgui.ControlLabel(x=190, y=100, width=500, height=25, label=line4[0])) self.addControl(xbmcgui.ControlLabel(x=190, y=125, width=500, height=25, label=line5[0])) if __name__ == '__main__': params = urlparse.parse_qs('&'.join(sys.argv[1:])) window = PopupWindow(**params) window.show() xbmc.sleep(5000) window.close() del window
See also
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