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The example of a multi-select dialog in a Kodi addon created with PyXBMCt framework
# The example of a multi-select dialog in a Kodi addon created with PyXBMCt framework.
# You will need a checkmark image file.
import os
import xbmcgui
import xbmcaddon
import pyxbmct.addonwindow as pyxbmct
_addon = xbmcaddon.Addon()
_path = _addon.getAddonInfo("path")
_check_icon = os.path.join(_path, "check.png") # Don't decode _path to utf-8!!!
class MultiChoiceDialog(pyxbmct.AddonDialogWindow):
def __init__(self, title="", items=None):
super(MultiChoiceDialog, self).__init__(title)
self.setGeometry(450, 300, 4, 4)
self.selected = []
self.set_controls()
self.connect_controls()
self.listing.addItems(items or [])
self.set_navigation()
def set_controls(self):
self.listing = pyxbmct.List(_imageWidth=15)
self.placeControl(self.listing, 0, 0, rowspan=3, columnspan=4)
self.ok_button = pyxbmct.Button("OK")
self.placeControl(self.ok_button, 3, 1)
self.cancel_button = pyxbmct.Button("Cancel")
self.placeControl(self.cancel_button, 3, 2)
def connect_controls(self):
self.connect(self.listing, self.check_uncheck)
self.connect(self.ok_button, self.ok)
self.connect(self.cancel_button, self.close)
def set_navigation(self):
self.listing.controlUp(self.ok_button)
self.listing.controlDown(self.ok_button)
self.ok_button.setNavigation(self.listing, self.listing, self.cancel_button, self.cancel_button)
self.cancel_button.setNavigation(self.listing, self.listing, self.ok_button, self.ok_button)
if self.listing.size():
self.setFocus(self.listing)
else:
self.setFocus(self.cancel_button)
def check_uncheck(self):
list_item = self.listing.getSelectedItem()
if list_item.getLabel2() == "checked":
list_item.setIconImage("")
list_item.setLabel2("unchecked")
else:
list_item.setIconImage(_check_icon)
list_item.setLabel2("checked")
def ok(self):
self.selected = [index for index in xrange(self.listing.size())
if self.listing.getListItem(index).getLabel2() == "checked"]
super(MultiChoiceDialog, self).close()
def close(self):
self.selected = []
super(MultiChoiceDialog, self).close()
if __name__ == "__main__":
items = ["Item {0}".format(i) for i in xrange(1, 11)]
dialog = MultiChoiceDialog("Select items", items)
dialog.doModal()
xbmcgui.Dialog().notification("Finished", "Selected: {0}".format(str(dialog.selected)))
del dialog #You need to delete your instance when it is no longer needed
#because underlying xbmcgui classes are not grabage-collected.
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romanvm commented Sep 1, 2015

How it looks:

image jpg 2741-252

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