[Request] Different Views on Each Widget Row

[IlyaTaidi]

Hi!
Absolutely love the skin. But theres really only 1 thing keeping me from transitioning to it from Arctic Horizon and thats the widget views. Would it be possible to assign a different view to each widget row? ie. Have one row be landscape and the other to be portrait?

The main reason I asked is I noticed on the youtube that during the demo
https://youtu.be/xEQPzxfTcPg?si=juaASqYuwwv9Hp_y&t=64
One of the rows was this landscape widget card that folded out and started playing the trailer within the widget. I for the love of me cant figure out how this was done and would really love to re-create that.
Let me know if its something that can be done, and if not, how the demo video got the auto expanding widget?

[AchillesPunks]

Ohh you are talking about The Highlight Widgets. Yes it's a option for the 3rd widget on the home screen. Like I said I am waiting on my water cooler parts for my PC that arrive tomorrow and I bought another PC also arriving tomorrow.

I'll be able to show you how when I get my PC

[IlyaTaidi]

Thanks for responding,
Once your pc comes in, would you be able to add that option for all widgets? Honestly in the video it's really cool, if we could have a banner and poster that auto folds out into a card/trailer on every row that would be incredible

[AchillesPunks]

That would be to much work.

[AchillesPunks]

Other views on the home were removed a long time ago. I would like to keep it like Netflix

[IlyaTaidi]

What about other views in custom hubs? Or just having the highlight widget be the other view option so we can have it in more than 1 place?

[IlyaTaidi]

If you don't have the bandwidth to make such a change, could you tell me what the code references are for widgets and view types and that highlight view type? I'll fork it and make the changes

[IlyaTaidi]

I figured out the highlight widget part, but still can't figure out how to make each widget a independent view. If you could let me know how your code is laid out it would be a lot of help

[IlyaTaidi]

It looks like the existing widget selection in the skinshortcuts-widgetselect includes properties Widget content, Widget label, Limit, Sort by, Sort order, Tags.
I can update this with a new control like

<control type="button" id="900$PARAM[widgetpos]14"> <description>widget view type</description> <width>500</width> <height>45</height> <align>left</align> <font>Reg22</font> <label>$LOCALIZE[31090]:</label> <label2>$VAR[widget_viewtype_label$PARAM[widgetpos]]</label2> <textoffsetx>10</textoffsetx> <onclick> RunScript(script.skin.helper.service,action=setskinshortcutsproperty,setting=widgetviewtype,header=$LOCALIZE[31090],property=widgetViewType$PARAM[widgetprop])</onclick> <visible>!String.IsEmpty(Container(211).ListItem.Property(widget$PARAM[widgetprop]))</visible> </control>

and the corresponding

<variable name="widget_viewtype_label1"> <value condition="!String.IsEmpty(Container(211).ListItem.Property(widgetViewType))"> $INFO[Container(211).ListItem.Property(widgetViewType)]</value> <value>$LOCALIZE[31641]</value> </variable>

But i don't see where the skin's widget rendering logic is defined to actually use the new control/variable