Helpers for skinshortcuts

This addon is designed to fully work together with the skinshortcuts script, so it will save you a lot of time because the script provides skinshortcuts with all the info to display contents. No need to manually skin all those window properties in your skin, just a few lines in your overrides file is enough.

Display Smart Shortcuts in skin shortcuts listing

When the Smart Shortcuts are used together with skinshortcuts it will auto assign the icon and background with rotating fanart and both the widget and submenu (if needed are assigned by default. The user just adds the shortcut and is all set.

To display the complete listing of Smart Shortcuts in your skin, place the following line in your overrides file, in the groupings section:

<shortcut label="Smart Shortcuts" type="32010">||BROWSE||script.skin.helper.service/?action=smartshortcuts</shortcut>

full example:

<overrides>
	<groupings>
		<shortcut label="Smart shortcuts" type="32010">||BROWSE||script.skin.helper.service/?action=smartshortcuts</shortcut>
	</groupings>
</overrides>

Offcourse you can use a condition parameter to only show the smart shortcuts entry if it's enabled in your skin. You can also choose to use the smart shortcuts as widgets, in that case include this line in your overrides.xml file:

<widget label="Smart Shortcuts" type="32010">||BROWSE||script.skin.helper.service/?action=smartshortcuts</widget>

Auto display Backgrounds provided by SkinHelper Backgrounds in skinshortcuts selector

You can choose to show all backgrounds (including those for smart shortcuts that are provided by Skin Helper Backgrounds addon in the skinshortcuts backgrounds selector.

To display all backgrounds automatically in skinshorts you only have to include the line below in your overrides file:

<background label="smartshortcuts">||BROWSE||plugin://script.skin.helper.service/?action=backgrounds</background>

Note: You can still use the default skinshortcuts method to assign a default background to a item by labelID or defaultID. In that case use the full $INFO path of the background. For example, to assign the "all movies" background to the Movies shortcut:

<backgrounddefault defaultID="movies">$INFO[SkinHelper.AllMoviesBackground)]</backgrounddefault>

For more info, see skinshortcut's documentation.

Auto display widgets in skinshortcuts

Coding all widgets in your skin can be a pain, especially to keep up with all the fancy scripts like extendedinfo and library data provider. This addon, combined with skinshortcuts can make things a little easier for you... By including just one line of code in your skinshortcuts override.xml you can display a whole bunch of widgets, ready to be selected by the user:

<widget label="Widgets" type="32010">||BROWSE||script.skin.helper.service/?action=widgets&amp;path=skinplaylists,librarydataprovider,scriptwidgets,extendedinfo,smartshortcuts,pvr,smartishwidgets</widget>

This will display a complete list of widgets available to select if the user presses the select widget button in skinshortcuts. In the path parameter you can specify which widgettypes should be listed. The widgets will be displayed in the order of which you type them as parameters (comma separated). You can also leave out the whole path parameter, in that case all available widgets will be displayed.

Currently available widgets (more to be added if needed):

skinplaylist --> all playlists that are stored in "yourskin\extras\widgetplaylists" or "yourskin\playlists" or "yourskin\extras\playlists"
librarydataprovider --> all widgets that are provided by the Library Data Provider script
scriptwidgets --> the special widgets that are provided by Skinhelper Widgets, like favourites and favourite media etc.
extendedinfo --> All widgets that are provided by the Extended info script
smartshortcuts --> all smartshortcuts
smartishwidgets --> widget supplied by the smartish widgets addon
favourites --> any browsable nodes in the user's favourites that can be used as widget