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keepsimple
June 8th, 2009, 02:39 PM
Hi,

I am working on my first Boxee app. I was able to see the app icon was added into "Video"->"Internet" now, but after I clicked it, there is nothing showing up and back to the app icons list.

I am wondering if there are any debugging tools / debugging console / mode for Boxee apps, so that I can easily check what happened ?

thanks.

DPK
June 8th, 2009, 04:31 PM
boxee.log is your one and only true friend when developing apps. :p

keepsimple
June 8th, 2009, 10:02 PM
Thanks a lot :)

DPK
June 9th, 2009, 07:14 PM
One other tip is that when using a list in your app and you're having trouble getting said list to populate with a feed that you are generating on your own server. Try using a list that you know that works. Then basically compare the list that works with your own and start tweaking.

My favorite list to use for this purpose is the whitehouse feed:

<content type="url" url="rss://vimeo.com/channels/whitehouse/videos/rss">
</content>

No real reason really. I just know that it works and being a creature of habit it's what I use for debugging my lists now. :)