Re: genre browser

This line actually worked:

<node text='Genres' icon='zinf-music-library' url='zinf://genre'>

Could you explain or point me to the code how
"node" and "list" work?


On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 19:00 +0100, David Hough wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:22:08 +0100, kristian kvilekval <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Dave does your new XML tree allow
> > one to browse by genre?
> >
> > i.e.
> >
> > <node text='Genre' icon='zinf-Genre' url='zinf://genre' />
> >    <list type='url'>
> >    </list>
> > </node>
> >
> 
> Yeah, any valid url that the musicdb can understand is usable, so you can  
> effectively sort by anything including genre. However the snippet you gave  
> probably won't give the expected results as it's actually equivalent too,
> 
> <node text='Genre' icon='zinf-genre'>
> 	<list url='zinf://url' />
> 	<list url='zinf://genre' />
> </node>
> 
> This is because when you specify a url for a node it checks if its  
> expandable, and if so appends a child list with that url. If you just  
> specify a type for a list whose parent is a node and not a list, it  
> assumes you want a list of all those items, so converts it too  
> "zinf://type", hence the url='zinf://url'.
> 
> What you actually want is
> 
> <node text='Genre' icon='zinf-genre'>
> 	<list url='zinf://genre'>
> 		<list type='url' />
> 	</list>
> </node>
> 
> 
> And yes, the exact syntax of the XML could probably do with some work.
> 
> Cheers,
> David
-- 
Kristian Kvilekval
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