Using the picture player from python

[mofle]

I'm trying to create a app that scrapes images from an external source using Python and then show it in the Boxee picture player.

This is what I have so far: https://gist.github.com/1176995

When the app starts, there is just a endless loading indicator.
No error messages in the console.

I'm certain I'm doing something wrong, but because of the lack of documentation/examples, I have no clue what I'm doing wrong.

Any help?

[Razorax]

I might be wrong, but I don't think you can use a multiimage control to anything but locally stored files.

At least that is the problem with the image control
http://developer.boxee.tv/Image_Control

Here only $INFO[ListItem.Thumb] or local-images are supported, i.e. no http links.

I also doubt you will get anything sensible without having a "real" itemlayout on the list.

[riegersn]

You can download the images into a folder and then use the multiimage control (outside of the list control)

Either way your not using the multiimage control properly.
<imagepath>loading</imagepath>
that means ..skin/Boxee Skin NG/media/loading/

See:
http://developer.boxee.tv/MultiImage_Control

[bartsidee]

I might be wrong, but I don't think you can use a multiimage control to anything but locally stored files.

This is correct you can only use the boxee image viewer on local files. I would discourage downloading the images to the local storage as the boxee box has very limited space and you can easily stall a box with it. (note that you can not dynamically write anymore to the application dir as of firmware 1.1 only to the temp dir)

Best way is to make your own image viewer. It actually pretty simple just make a simple dialog with a list that has image items that fill the entire window. Now you can simple scroll all your images you have set (using largeimage control for external images)

For more info on dialogs see this posts:
http://developer.boxee.tv/blog/2010/...our-boxee-app/