How do I use Custom Lists?

**Sal R.** · 10-30-2007, 05:34 PM

I've been searching around now for a few hours now and read over the help file and Skin Commands.txt and still don't have a clear understanding how to use custom lists.

If someone could take the time to explain, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!

**Blue ZX3** · 10-30-2007, 06:48 PM

The easiest way is to open the skin editor and add a new launch list to a skin, but at the top, add a 'C' to the 'S' so you get "SC",

then just set all the colors and font name size and there you have it, your very own customlist...

**Sal R.** · 10-30-2007, 07:01 PM

Okay, that was the easy part.

Now, what can I do with it?

I mean, RRhelp described DL's, PB's, PL's, etc w/ other commands CLSAVE, CLADD, etc., but I'm not quite sure how they all fit together.

guino mentioned something about JohnWPB using it for lyrics as an example, but how is it getting fed into RR to be displayed?

Any ideas?

**Blue ZX3** · 10-30-2007, 07:08 PM

you need to have something in mind...

and upon getting an idea, what would you use to put whatever in the list?

**Blue ZX3** · 10-30-2007, 07:11 PM

a customlist is for users that are/have a plugin that needs to list thing for the user, and until this release this had to be done by using a listbox from the actual app, instead of being able to use RR's native list so that it looks like the plugin is native to rr..

**Sal R.** · 10-30-2007, 07:38 PM

Ah...icic...

Clearly, something still beyond my ability to use as I'm still learning how to write scripts.

Cool. Thanks!

**EL CAMINO** · 10-30-2007, 07:49 PM

i just wrote a script for a task manager like list, if you want you can take a look at it, is very easy, theres a bug in the custom list(just the fonts colors everything else works), guino knows about it, and he said, it will be fixed in the next release.

**guino** · 10-30-2007, 07:51 PM

I've made an example/test screen for the BMV2 skin in the Phoco screen..

Download the attached over your phoco.skin of the BMV2 skin (make a backup first). Then open it and start pressing the buttons in sequence.. then look in the file to understand what's going on.

**Sal R.** · 10-30-2007, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by guino

I've made an example/test screen for the BMV2 skin in the Phoco screen..

Download the attached over your phoco.skin of the BMV2 skin (make a backup first). Then open it and start pressing the buttons in sequence.. then look in the file to understand what's going on.

Ah. Very cool. The RRHelp file makes more sense now.

Thanks g!

**Sal R.** · 10-30-2007, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by EL CAMINO

i just wrote a script for a task manager like list, if you want you can take a look at it, is very easy, theres a bug in the custom list(just the fonts colors everything else works), guino knows about it, and he said, it will be fixed in the next release.

Cool. If you wouldn't mind sharing, I'd love to look at it.

I'm sure I could learn a thing or three.