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On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, jameson_uk deprecated this page or content because it is no longer relevant, but has been retained for historical reference.

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Description

The togglebutton control is obsolete - replaced by the new checkbutton control.  Plugins should update to the new control which supports new skin features.

There are still instances in the MediaPortal core where a togglebutton control is used. 

Note: The togglebutton control is scheduled to be completely removed from MediaPortal in 1.4.0.

Changelog

Change

Date

Version

Text scrolling on Checkbutton, Togglebutton

2013/01/27

1.2.0 to 1.3.0

Enhance textXOff in Buttons

2011/12/17

1.2.0 to 1.3.0

Togglebutton removed

2012/11/13

1.3.0 to 1.4.0

Text Padding

2013/01/27

1.2.0 to 1.3.0

Shadow text

2010/10/10

1.0.1 to 1.1.0

 

 

Tags

Togglebutton

Element Name

Data Type

Description

textureFocus

Integer

The texture to display when the togglebutton is on and has focus

textureNoFocus

String

The texture to display when the button is on and does not have focus

AltTextureFocus

String

The texture to display when the togglebutton is off and has focus

AltTextureNoFocus

String

The texture to display when the button is off and does not have focus

font

String

The font to use to display the label

label

String

The label text, property or a number that corresponds to an id in the strings.xml file

textcolor

Long

The color of the text. Defaults to 0xFFFFFFFF

textcolorNoFocus

Long

The color of the text when the togglebutton does not have the focus/not selected. Defaults to 0xFFFFFFFF

disabledcolor

Long

The color of the text when the togglebutton is disabled. Defaults to 0xFF606060

hyperlink

Integer

The id of the xml skin page that MP will load when the button is pushed

textXOff [hasMargin]

Integer

The number of pixels the text label is offset from the left edge of the togglebutton image

      hasMargin

Boolean

[Since 1.3] If true, textXOff is used to provide horizontal space before and after the button label.

textYOff

Integer

The number of pixels the text label is offset from the top edge of the togglebutton image

textpadding

Integer

[Since 1.3]  provides "space" inside the label text to prevent overlap with graphics that follow on the right.

textalign

Alignment

Align the text, possible values are: "left", "right" or "center". Default is "left"

textvalign

Alignment

Vertical align of the text "top", "middle", "bottom"

shadowAngle

Integer

Angle between text and the text shadow. Default is 0

shadowDistance

Integer

Distance between the text and the shadow. Default is 0

shadowColor

Integer

Color of the text shadow. Default is 0xFF000000 (black)

scrollStartDelaySec

Integer

[Since 1.3] Sets the delay before scrolling starts, and enables scrolling of label text when it is too long for the texture

scrollWrapString

String

[Since 1.3] Character to identify the end of the label text as it scrolls 

onclick

String

[Since 1.3] Executes a MediaPortal skin function when the button is clicked.  See Skin Settings for more information.

 

Inherited by Control

See GUIControl for the full documentation of this control.

Element Name

Data Type

Description

id

Integer

The id of the control. The id will couple the skin file to the code, so if we later on want to check that a user pressed a button, the id will be required and must be unique. For controls that will never be referenced in the code it is safe to set it to "1"

description

String

An optional description of the control for your reference

type

String

The type of the control, for instance "button", "label", "textbox" and all other controls.

posX

Integer

The X-position on the window for this control

posY

Integer

The Y-position on the window for this control

width

Integer

The width of this control

height

Integer

The height of this control

onleft

Integer

The control id to move the focus to when the user moves left. If not specified (or zero) MediaPortal will find the closest control in that direction to move to. As of v1.7.0 Skin Settings and Skin Expressions are also supported. 

onright

Integer

The control id to move the focus to when the user moves right. If not specified (or zero) MediaPortal will find the closest control in that direction to move to. As of v1.7.0 Skin Settings and Skin Expressions are also supported. 

onup

Integer

The control id to move the focus to when the user moves up. If not specified (or zero) MediaPortal will find the closest control in that direction to move to. As of v1.7.0 Skin Settings and Skin Expressions are also supported. 

ondown

Integer

The control id to move the focus to when the user moves down. If not specified (or zero) MediaPortal will find the closest control in that direction to move to. As of v1.7.0 Skin Settings and Skin Expressions are also supported. 

colordiffuse

Long

Allows you to mix a color & a graphics texture. E.g. If you have a graphics texture like a blue button you can mix it with a yellow color diffuse and the end result will be green. Defaults to 0xFFFFFFFF

dimColor

Integer

Color for a control when it is not focussed. Defaults to half transparent (0x60ffffff)

onfocus

String

[Since 1.3] Executes a MediaPortal skin function when the control gains focus.  See Skin Settings for more information.

XML samples

<control>
        <id>305</id>
        <description>GUIToggleButton (togglebutton)</description>
        <type>togglebutton</type>
        <onleft>500</onleft>
        <onright>306</onright>
        <onup>303</onup>
        <ondown>307</ondown>
        <colordiffuse>ffffffff</colordiffuse>
        <posX>40</posX>
        <posY>375</posY>
        <width>190</width>
        <height>32</height>
        <font>font13</font>
        <textureFocus>togglebutton-on-focus.png</textureFocus>
        <textcolor>ffffffff</textcolor>
        <disabledcolor>60ffffff</disabledcolor>
        <textureNoFocus>togglebutton-on-nofocus.png</textureNoFocus>
        <label>Toggle</label>
        <textXOff>10</textXOff>
        <textYOff>5</textYOff>
        <textalign>left</textalign> (added in 1.2.0 beta)
        <textvalign>middle</textvalign> (added in 1.2.0 beta)
        <animation effect="Zoom" end="105,105" start="100,100" time="100">Focus</animation>
        <animation effect="Zoom" end="100,100" start="105,105" time="300">UnFocus</animation>
        <AltTextureFocus>togglebutton-off-focus.png</AltTextureFocus>
        <AltTextureNoFocus>togglebutton-off-nofocus.png</AltTextureNoFocus>
      </control>

 

Position text using textXOff while preserving the width of the label text by setting the textXOff property hasMargin to "no";

<textXOff hasMargin="no">20</textXOff>

   

 

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