Get selected list item from button in media action dialog

[Brucmack]

This isn't really an app question per se, but I'm not really sure where else to get help with it.

I'm trying to customize my Boxee installation by adding an extra button to the media action dialog - the one that pops up when you click on a media file and has buttons to play, mark watched, etc. The XML file for the dialog is boxee_media_action.xml.

I can add the button to the XML just fine, and I can get it to run a Python script, but I haven't been able to get it to reference the selected list item correctly.

In the skin XML, the data is pulled out by referencing

container(5000).ListItem

so I thought I would be able to access the list item in Python with

mc.GetActiveWindow().GetList(5000).GetFocusedItem()

but this only gives me a script error. The error is at the GetList stage. I can use GetControl(5000) without error, but that doesn't help me get at the list item.

What am I missing?

[xmcnuggetx]

getfocuseditem is an integer of the item in the list try this:

i = mc.GetActiveWindow().GetList(5000).GetFocusedItem()
item = mc.GetActiveWindow().GetList(5000).GetItem(i)

[Brucmack]

I should clarify - the failure occurs already at the GetList call. Simply doing this causes a script failure:

list = mc.GetActiveWindow().GetList(5000)

So it's as if id 5000 isn't recognized as a list or something... GetControl works but doesn't provide me with any useful functions.

[Brucmack]

I figured it out now, posting here in case anyone else is interested.

Through playing around with boxee_browse_views.xml, I discovered that the proper list ID for movies is 50, and tv shows is 52. So I was able to use those numbers instead of 5000 to get the list and the appropriate list item.