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| author | Felix Domke <tmbinc@elitedvb.net> | 2006-03-07 16:32:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Felix Domke <tmbinc@elitedvb.net> | 2006-03-07 16:32:15 +0000 |
| commit | db676dd52192447dd3204739ebb081b4b713ad28 (patch) | |
| tree | 0d38fc82499b2824e51215e90a1d26b682607eb9 /doc | |
| parent | 320cfa7ae4049aa8b77ad037c4f9e480f084e413 (diff) | |
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note about skins / screen names
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diff --git a/doc/PLUGINS b/doc/PLUGINS index ed448fa2..808fd580 100644 --- a/doc/PLUGINS +++ b/doc/PLUGINS @@ -76,6 +76,27 @@ stands for "keyword arguments") collects all addition keyword arguments parameter, and probably more in the future. You must ignore all additional keywords which you don't need! +skins +===== + +Generally, you can include the skin in your Screens by having a static (or +non-static, if you really want) variable "skin", for example: + +class OurSmallTestScreen(Screen): + skin = "<skin>...</skin>" + def __init__(self, session): + Screen.__init__(self, session) + ... + +However, users can override the skin from their skin.xml. Note that the +Screen's name (unless you override this, which is possible) is used for +determining which skin is used. Thus, if you're choosing generic skin names +like "TheScreen", it's likely to cause namespace clashes. + +Thus, please use skin names (i.e. Screen-names, unless you're overriding the +skin name) which are unique enough to not clash. In doubt, prepend the +pluginname like in our example. + autostarting plugins ==================== |