ListView/AlbumArt view browsing

**Jarrod** · 10-26-2006, 12:17 PM

I am trying to make a button on my skin so that I can switch between list view and albumart views when browsing my music collection, but I seem to be having some problems with the directory path.

My button to switch has this code:
"LOAD;AUDIO_BROWSER_2.skin"

And to switch back:
"LOAD;AUDIO_BROWSER.skin"

The problem is that the directory actually being browsed isnt being remembered when switching. Basically each is browsing independantly, so if Im in artist list, then go into an artist to view albums, then change to albumart view, the list changes to albumart view but its back at the artist listing again.

In my SD definition I have nothing set for PATH, so it should just update to the path used on the previous screen correct?

Has anything changed that could be causing this to bug out? Or am I missing something here?

Thanks,

**guino** · 10-26-2006, 01:53 PM

by default the lists are meant to be independent -- with exception that when FIRST loading a screen with a folder list will copy the path from the previous screen (if any).

You can however sync the two paths when loading the screen by using a variable and setpath..

"SETVARBYCODE;LASTPATH;DLPATH||LOAD;AUDIO_BROWSER2 .skin||SETPATH;$LASTPATH$"
"SETVARBYCODE;LASTPATH;DLPATH||LOAD;AUDIO_BROWSER. skin||SETPATH;$LASTPATH$"

That should do it, however, unless you add some more code, it mayl always reset to the top of the list when switching screens.

**Jarrod** · 10-26-2006, 09:00 PM

Thanks for setting me in the right direction Guino.

For anyone interested, this is the code I am using and it works great:
"SETVARBYCODE;LASTPATH;DLPATH||SETVARBYCODE;LASTPO S;LISTPOS||LOAD;AUDIO_BROWSER_2.skin||SETPATH;$LAS TPATH$||SETLIST;$LASTPOS$"

(ignore spaces that the forum decides to throw in for no good reason

)

And just change the skin name to swap back...too easy

**Jarrod** · 10-26-2006, 09:29 PM

One more issue to solve: now when you leave the library and go back, it always goes back to the listview library, whereas I want it to go back to which ever view it was last in. So heres the solution I came up with:

On the button to change to albumart view mode:

Code:

SETVARBYCODE;LASTPATH;DLPATH||SETVARBYCODE;LASTPOS;LISTPOS||LOAD;AUDIO_BROWSER_2.skin||SETVARBYCODE;BROWSESCREEN;RRSCREEN||SETPATH;$LASTPATH$||SETLIST;$LASTPOS$"

On the button to change back to listview mode:

Code:

SETVARBYCODE;LASTPATH;DLPATH||SETVARBYCODE;LASTPOS;LISTPOS||LOAD;AUDIO_BROWSER.skin||SETVARBYCODE;BROWSESCREEN;RRSCREEN||SETPATH;$LASTPATH$||SETLIST;$LASTPOS$

On the button to go from audio player to browse library:

Code:

LOAD;$BROWSESCREEN$

And to set which library browser view to use when you first load RoadRunner, add this command to the RR.ini:

Code:

startcommand=SETVAR;BROWSESCREEN;AUDIO_BROWSER.skin

Where the screen name in the above command is the name of the screen with the view you want (in my case, listview to start)

Now it remembers the view mode you were last using in the library, until you restart RoadRunner, but that doesn't matter because the directory path is reset too.

Hope that helps someone....if anyone cares