overide playlist click event?

[S Pittaway]

Hi,

i always perfered the way MP managed the playllist so and i had an idea about how to do it last night -


i wanted to break my playlist (can do the same thing for other cats) up into

[track name 1.............artist 1...length] [rating] [up] [down] [delete]
[track name 2.............artist 2...length] [rating] [up] [down] [delete]
[track name 3.............artist 3...length] [rating] [up] [down] [delete]
[track name 4.............artist 4...length] [rating] [up] [down] [delete]
....
[track name x.............artist x...length] [rating] [up] [down] [delete]
etc

This is the kind of MP layout works well, you can cursor arround the playlist and edit it without any menus.


I did this by having 5 playliost cats on the screen and then positioning them correctly, also set instant update to keep everything in line...

It looks they way i wanted and works well woith cursoring.



i wanted to set it so -

click [song 1 info ] - plays the track
click [up] - move the track up
click [down] - move the track down
click [delete] - delete the track
click [rating] - toggle the track rating (??)

I can do the first 4 by calling m3u delete/play/up/down but is there anyway of stoping the default action on a cat and replacing it with another event call?



Cheers, Sean.

[S Pittaway]

to answer my own question...

when i enter each of the cats is set the event to be delete/play/up/down as needed, when clicked the do what the are supposed to.

for the rating i set it to be "m3u up", and link and event to the click, this event is -
"m3u down"
"cat:execute:playlist"
"m3u up"
"do the rating stuff"

as long as multithreaded is off it does not cause any problems.

its not the cleanest solution, but (like so many things in xlobby) it works.


Sean.

[stevenhanna6]

yah we are planning doing something like in your first post, so in the end people will be given the choice to use this new way or the old way.

[S Pittaway]

i was being a bit thick, 400+ views and no one said anything

an easier way is to simply set the info screen for the category to be the current screen.

this makes it ignore the click setting and simply runs the "on click event instead".




one funny that i noticed was that the sceen name that is sent to a plugin (via the on event delegate) is capitailised....

only noticed because my skins plugin checks the screen that is being entered and kicks code off apropriately, and this was not working.

[scottw]

I know this is old but I just wanted to thank Sean (S Pittaway) for posting this. To be honest when I first saw this I did not fully understand what you were doing.
I wanted to do exactly what you have done here and remembered reading about this. I tested what I thought seemed right according to your post and it worked great.

Just wanted to say thanks