List filling question

[wtp17]

I am trying to develop a skin that is more mouse or pointer friendly, especially from a distance and without keyboard access. The normal functionality of XBMC while the user is searching through the video library is to have a folder directory structure with the categories a level above the videos. The navigation between different sections is limited and clumsy with a mouse. It would be more functional for my purposes to have separate buttons that would change the elements and layout of a list. For example, I would be looking through my movies then decide that I wanted to watch an action flick. I would click the genre button and the list of films would change to a list of genres.

The problem I am having with implementing this feature is that the list is automatically generated when opening the video library window. The only way that I can tell to get the list contents to change is to reload the entire window with a different quickpath. It would also work to have separate lists that are only visible under the right conditions, but I have not seen any examples of how to set the content of a list from the library without having it done automatically when opening a window. Is it possible to set the contents of a dynamic list in the skin?

A secondary concern of mine is the inclusion of the parent directory path in the lists. If I can get the first part working efficiently these are unnecessary and aesthetically unpleasing. Is there a way to filter out some members of a list?

[jmarshall]

Disable parent path items in settings (appearance).

And do it with quickpaths as you have said.

[BritneysPAIRS]

Is there anyway to disable the window swapping if its a quickpath from the same media window to the same media window?

eg from video year to video rating
or from a folder of your movies to a another folder of your movies?

[jmarshall]

Not currently. I suggest a new builtin to handle that.

There's already container.refresh, so we could do container.refresh(path) if that is suitable.

[BritneysPAIRS]

This would be great.

Another suggestion that goes with this is something I would have allways loved. A way for a container content to be able to grab all the folders from within a path and add a series of container.refresh(paths) so it would dynamically be able to have quick links to folders one adds under say F:/Games..... then it would it add links if I had a folder F:/Games/EMU and F:/Games/APPS it would add those 2 folders and if they werent there it wouldnt.
So the suggestion in is in the Content tag in Containers be able to add "Create.RefreshPaths(Path)"

Cheers all

[jmarshall]

Added to linuxport rev 14064.

[BritneysPAIRS]

cheers