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Management of addon settings:

TSmedia addon settings do not use enigma config system as other plugins as TSmedia addon is platform independent,so we have to use local sources to store settings.TSmedia uses xml method as fastest and flexible method to do that.

settings stored in the file settings.xml in addon path/resources directory and developer can edit manually and the user can edit by TSmedia

attached typical example of settings.xml which cover all we need for TSmedia

PHP Code:

<settings>
    

    <category label="settings">
        <setting label="settings" />
            <setting default="OFF" id="kidsmode" label="kids mode" type="labelenum" values="OFF|ON" />
            <setting default="1" id="sortmedia" label="Sort media" type="enum" values="Trending|Popular|Top Rated|Recently Added|New" />
            <setting default="3" id="mediagenre" label="Media genre" type="enum" values="All|action|adventure|animation|biography|comedy|crime|documentary|drama|family|fantasy|game-show|history|horror|music|musical|mystery|romance|sci-fi|short|sport|thriller|war|western" />
            <setting default="0" id="addonlanguage" label="addon language" type="enum" values="Arabic|English|French|German|Italian|Spanish" />
            <setting default="false" id="needslogin" label="Needs login" type="bool" values="" />
            <setting default="mfaraj57" id="username" label="user name" type="text" values="" />
            <setting default="drtgyu7" id="password" label="Password" type="text" values="" />
            <setting default="mfaraj57@gmail.com" id="email" label="Your email" type="text" values="" />
                        
    </category>
    
    
    
</settings> 


The components of the settings file row include
default:this is the value read by the addon with given id.
id:unique for each type of setting.
label:describe the setting item,appears as first row in TSmedia when run settings screen
values: include different values for given id.
type:type of the setting item,we usually use 4 types text,bool,labelenum,enum
text type returns text
bool type returns true,false
labelenum returns the value selected example OFF or ON in our settings file
enum return the index of selected value 0,1,2...





The following code used to manage settings and retrieve settings values.

PHP Code:

           from iTools import Addon
            settings= Addon(id='science/testsettings')
            value = settings.getSetting(id)
            print "id",value
            print "value",value 


attached settings addon to test different addons values

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