Input-Dialogs

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craeate a dialog similar to the preference dalog
Hi,

I’m developing a plugin to handle (startup, shutdown, reboot) my server on my private network so I don’t have to stand up from the couch :). Everything is really easy with the new PMS-Framework but what I’m missing is as the possibility to make an input dialog similar to the preferences dialog. I just want to add new computer to my list and change existing ones but I can’t find any handler to build an input dialog.

So please can anybody help me with my problem?

Oh, and by the way is there an Element where I can create a confirm-dialog, because the MessageItem only has the OK-Button?

Thanks for your help.
René

P.S.: Congratulations, the new PMS Framework is much better and easier to use than the old XBMC-Scripts.
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Hulu uses a SearchDirectoryItem to capture input for setting prefs:


 dir.AppendItem(SearchDirectoryItem("prefs^username", "Set your Hulu user name", "Set your Hulu user name", ""))

that seems to be the only way to get keyboard entry now, and while designed for search, it seems to work fine for any input.
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Thanks Billy Joe for your fast response.

I will have a look at this idea this afternoon but how can I make an input for a single Boolean value? (because typing of true or false is a little bit boring)
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The latest version of the framework has full support for a preference dialog. You can check out The Sixty One as an example.

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Sorry Brandi, the framework is currently limited to a single preferences dialog per plugin. Support for multiple dialogs & automated list management (add/remove/edit support for items) is currently being discussed & will be added to a future framework update. If you’ve got any thoughts on what you’d need from the feature, please let us know :slight_smile:



EDIT: Confirmation dialogs will be added at some point too!

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Hi,



sorry for my late answer but I had a hard weekend. I think the following features (in addition to the already existing ones inside the preferences dialog) would be nice inside the an input/change dialog:



[list]

[]keyboards for special inputs (IP addresses, date, time, numeric)

[]a file-browser (check if its possible to browser computers on the network)

[]the possibility to add buttons for special actions inside the dialog (example: a button where a action can be called that retrieves the mac-address from a specified IP address

[]the opportunity to handle the save/load and delete action on your own if you want (a default implementation like the one in the preferences dialog would also be nice)

[/list]



thx,

Rene



P.S.: I think I found a little hack to abuse the preferences dialog for an add and change dialog of my list. I just replaces the Prefs.__save and the Prefs.__load inside my code and inside the new functions i load the selected list element or save the hole list inside a file. :wink:

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