Conditional Statements to Display Fields

[CriticalComposer]

When adding data entries to a game's Details page -- such as Genre, or Source, or Platform, or Time Played -- is there a way to use a conditional to assign two sets of text to a TextBlock depending on a variable? My idea is to display the game's Time Played but if a game hasn't been played yet then I'd like to display the Average Time to Beat (I've been using a workaround to assign this info to each game). Something like:

if (CompletionStatus == NotPlayed)
    Text="{Binding Playtime, Converter={StaticResource LongToTimePlayedConverter}}"
else
    Text="{Binding [OtherDataPoint], Converter=blahblahblah}"

and I would do something similar to the DynamicResource to make sure the labels properly reflected the data being displayed.

[joyrider3774]

i have not tried it but wouldn't a datatrigger work for this ?

[Crow]

"I've been using a workaround to assign this info to each game"

I immediately don't wont to look more into this because of this message However, I think you should be able to do this with some combination of data triggers, but since I have no idea where you are getting the other data from, it might not be possible.

[LuigiVs]

Would this be for importing metadata for games?

Like say you import Age Rating as "ESRB E10", it would then be changed into "E10+" specifically.

I've been sorting a lot of my library recently, so this would be useful to merge entries together easily.

[Crow]

No, this thread has nothing to do with metadata downloads. What you are asking for is this: https://github.com/JosefNemec/Playnite/issues/1902

[CriticalComposer]

I have zero experience with DataTriggers so if anyone could help out a bit with that it would be much appreciated -- otherwise I'll just do my typical "read docs, try stuff, fail repeatedly" method until I stumble on the right code

As for the time to beat -- I store that info in the Age Rating metadata slot. The only thing I need to change is rather pulling the AgeRating DynamicResource I just use a "Time to Beat" string. Of course I'd like a unique entry point for this but I doubt very many people would use it, opting more for keeping that data in tags like with the the HowLongToBeat extension by Lacro59. Since I don't have any intentions of using the Age Rating entry I have no problem with this little workaround.

[darklinkpower]

You need to reference `AgeRating`with a Binding https://playnite.link/docs/tutorials/the...n-to-views

[CriticalComposer]

You need to reference `AgeRating`with a Binding https://playnite.link/docs/tutorials/the...n-to-views

Yup, that's what I've been doing. But I need a bit of help with the DataTrigger to change whether the AgeRating is displayed or the TimePlayed.

[darklinkpower]

I see. Full file example: https://pastebin.com/bcP4mYtm
Check lines 62-66 and 103-105. In this way, you replace the text content in the same TextBlock.

I suggest checking the resources listed in the Playnite docs to learn how to do things like this and others, it will make it easier in the long run: https://playnite.link/docs/tutorials/the...-resources
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/wpf/wpf_triggers.htm

[CriticalComposer]

I see. Full file example: https://pastebin.com/bcP4mYtm
Check lines 62-66 and 103-105. In this way, you replace the text content in the same TextBlock.

I suggest checking the resources listed in the Playnite docs to learn how to do things like this and others, it will make it easier in the long run: https://playnite.link/docs/tutorials/the...-resources
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/wpf/wpf_triggers.htm

Thanks so much for this. I've been tweaking themes by text and learning as I go but I assume, as you stated, that eventually I should just sit down with the resource and actually learn what I'm doing. The example helped a lot but I've also bookmarked the two docs for further reading.

[darklinkpower]

I highly recommend using Blend for editing, I can't imagine how much more difficult editing in a simple text editor is. Using Blend will give you syntax highlighting, previews, auto completion, check for errors, etc. and doesn't take more than a few minutes to set up.