XBMC Skinning Tutorials

Revision as of 09:43, 16 July 2009

Welcome to the XBMC Skinning Tutorial section. This section is designed to help both people who are new to skinning XBMC get to grips with how the system works, as well as dealing with a few things that the old timers may find useful. Click on a task to see how it's done.

Note! For more information on skinning XBMC please see the "Skinning XBMC" and the "XBMC Skinning Manual" articles.

1 HOW-TO: Edit the Main Menu (Home Screen)

Shows how to reorder the main menu and change one of the home buttons into another one and how to have 2 different buttons that launch the same section with separate default folders (eg have separate My Games and My Programs sections).

2 How to make a dialog popup automatically with another one

Shows how to use the <visible> tag of a dialog to instruct it to automatically popup when another window is onscreen.

3 How to show the weather on the home page

Shows how to use the <info> tags in label and image controls to put the current weather on the home page of the Project Mayhem 3 skin.

4 How to add a new window or dialog

Shows how to add a new window or dialog to the skin and get it to popup when you require it.

5 How to show the IP address on the home page (for DHCP users)

Shows how to add a label control to the home page showing the IP address assigned to the xbox. It uses conditional visibility so that it's only displayed if the network is connected (and it fades in and out!) Thanks to Nightbird.

6 How to add a new true type font to the skin

Shows how to add a new font to the skin in addition to the usual Arial.ttf font.