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- wyrm - 2011-11-24 03:28
bubbanc Wrote:wyrm,Brian,
Quick question. I turned on the TV this morning and XBMC was stuck in screensaver dim mode and wouldn't get out of it; not a big deal because I know I can restart XBMC to fix this. When I was navigating around, the highlighted/selected item worked normally on the main menu, but when I go to Movies or TV Shows, I could no longer see what show or directory was highlighted; as I moved around I could see the show description/image change, but the show was not highlighting. I tried restarting XBMC, toggling skins, everything and could not fix the issue. I went back to non-SVN version and the highlights were back. It's really bizarre that the highlighted/selected items worked for Settings menu, and all the settings, just not for TV Shows (or sub dirs thereof) or Movies.
Any ideas on this on? I know it's bizarre. SVN was working fine up until last night. Nothing changed on my end; running a nightly from October. I was thinking there may be some image cache I needed to blow away, but couldn't find anything digging around. Let me know if you want me to take a picture so you can see what I mean.
Thanks,
Brian
Sorry mate, only affects List2 view, all other views are fine. Suggest that you change to 'List' view for the moment and I will have it fixed for tomorrow mornings Passion repo pull.
This problem came about as I was messing with the views to get over a problem where multiple views were showing at the same time under certain circumstances. For some reason either notepad++ or Tortoise SVN lost the change that I made to 'List2' view. Thanks for the heads up on this.
BTW, what do you think of the other changes that I have been making to the skin? Most of the changes are to make the move to horizontal home menu less of a problem (no don't panic, vertical home menu will still be the default). Pretty sure I now know how I will proceed with the horizontal home menu (just need some time to code it up). Hopefully I am now getting towards the end of coding new release. Is there anything else that you think may be missing from what the skin should be doing?
Wyrm (xTV-SAF)
- joselbcn33 - 2011-12-01 00:38
hi there, congratulations for this skin!!!. Hi had recently just installed yesterday to check it. During a couple of weeks I was searching for a skin with fonts big enough to read clear the info movie, and for me this is one of the best options. I'm using a small hd tv 26" and when I tried to read the info movies; the fonts in most of the skins are not big enough if you are 2 or 3 meters away.
Also, just a couple of questions:
how can I change the icons in the home menu? There are a couple of skins that have a very nice icons : Alaska mod (when you change the default menu) and Rapier.
2nd questions: How can I add a new view option?
There is one view called Big Poster in Cirrus skin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqqHFzrAXnw that I like it very much. It show a big poster with a clear fanart area
When you scroll the movies, if you press down or up key it displays a small plot with the info of the movie.
Also, I aplogize for my poor English, I'm a spanish user
- htpcrelic - 2011-12-01 01:46
I just updated to the latest version and I can't get fanart to show up in any view.
- wyrm - 2011-12-01 03:42
htpcrelic Wrote:I just updated to the latest version and I can't get fanart to show up in any view.htpcrelic,
Sorry not sure what happened there as I'm pretty sure I have not touched the background image stuff for a while. Any rate problem with a visible condition which I have fixed. Will appear in Passion repo next time I do a push to my SVN. Can't say at the moment when that will happen as I am working on the new horizontal home menu and it's a bit of a mess. Hopefully in a day or so.
BTW, thanks for the heads up on this bug.
Wyrm (xTV-SAF)
- wyrm - 2011-12-01 04:33
joselbcn33 Wrote:hi there, congratulations for this skin!!!. Hi had recently just installed yesterday to check it. During a couple of weeks I was searching for a skin with fonts big enough to read clear the info movie, and for me this is one of the best options. I'm using a small hd tv 26" and when I tried to read the info movies; the fonts in most of the skins are not big enough if you are 2 or 3 meters away.joselbcn33, strangely enough I am running this skin at home for the family on our AppleTV running into a 26" LG.
Quote:Also, just a couple of questions:Either have to get into the Includes_Home.xml file in the skins 720p directory and change to what files each menu item points to. This is not a real good long term solution, as I am currently working on this file to add a horizontal home menu to the skin, so the next push to the Passion repo will wipe out your changes.
how can I change the icons in the home menu? There are a couple of skins that have a very nice icons : Alaska mod (when you change the default menu) and Rapier.
The other much better solution is to either checkout the skin themes that I have available thru the skins theme loader script or make your own theme. To make a theme you will need to know the names of the files that you want to replace, name your replacement files to the same name. And then using texturepacker pack up the require files into a .xpr file. So basically you point texturepacker at a directory containing all the new image files and it outputs a .xpr file that you then copy to the skins /media directory. Once the file is in the right directory you will need to go to the Appearance settings menu and select the new theme.
Quote:2nd questions: How can I add a new view option?Short answer, a whole shit load of work.
There is one view called Big Poster in Cirrus skin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqqHFzrAXnw that I like it very much. It show a big poster with a clear fanart area
When you scroll the movies, if you press down or up key it displays a small plot with the info of the movie.
Also, I aplogize for my poor English, I'm a spanish user
Long answer, you will need to edit the xml file from Cirrus so that the id number of the view is either 53, 55 or 56 as they are the only ones free in my skin (will also need to change ALL of the reference to that id number within the xml file). There is an alternative to the previous step, you will instead need to add a <views> statement to the top of the MyVideoNav.xml file. This statement will need to include ALL of the views ids (so 50,51,52,54,57,58,59 and the id number of your new view). Next you then need to add the reference to the xml file to the top of the includes.xml file in my skin. Then you need to include a <include> statement in the MyVideoNav.xml file that points to your new view xml file. And finally you need to make sure that there are no id clashes with the skin and your new views xml file. As I said a shit load of work. Oh BTW, you will need to add these changes to the skin every time I make any changes to MyVideoNav.xml or includes.xml as my changes will wipe out yours.
Does the List or List2 views not already give you basically what you want?
If not, what do you think is missing?
Wyrm (xTV-SAF)
- joselbcn33 - 2011-12-01 08:31
Dear wyrm,
Thank you for reply so fast.
1.- I was trying to say that your skin is the only one which allows me to read clear all info movies.
2.- About the icons and the option view:
Hard job to do !!! Well I do not know to use any of the programs for modify xlm files ( I will search for any tutorial).
The list view and list view 2 are good options, but I never like the list views. I like the Big Poster view because, when you are scrolling to point you in which movie are you, it change the poster to a big poster while the other ones are smaller. So I was thinking that could be a good view for all that people that use your skin in special with 4:3 tv
- wyrm - 2011-12-01 17:01
joselbcn33 Wrote:Dear wyrm,First and foremost it is what the skin is about, clear and easy to understand. I love the eye candy of a number of the other skins out there, but mostly I (and the family) prefer a simple uncluttered gui so that we can do what XBMC is designed to do (watch movies). Just think, you spend maybe 5 minutes looking for something to watch and then 90 minutes watching it. Anything that gets in the way of than probably should not be there. Thus the big fonts and sparse information (if you need more info, it is just a remote press away).
Thank you for reply so fast.
1.- I was trying to say that your skin is the only one which allows me to read clear all info movies.
Quote:2.- About the icons and the option view:All you need is a text editor to change the code and the skinning manual on the XBMC wiki to see what each of the tags do and you are 90% of the way there (oh, and a fair bit of free time). As I said in previous message, what you are asking for would take a fair amount of time that would be better spent fixing other issues. That and to me it does not really fit in with what I think the skin's look and feel is. But as I said, skinning is not hard (mainly, sometimes can be a bit difficult coming up with ways to get around what XBMC thinks you should be doing), mainly time consuming.
Hard job to do !!! Well I do not know to use any of the programs for modify xlm files ( I will search for any tutorial).
The list view and list view 2 are good options, but I never like the list views. I like the Big Poster view because, when you are scrolling to point you in which movie are you, it change the poster to a big poster while the other ones are smaller. So I was thinking that could be a good view for all that people that use your skin in special with 4:3 tv
Please by all means mess with things to your hearts content (that is basically how I got started), just understand that sometimes my vision of what the skin should do and others don't overlap.
Wyrm (xTV-SAF)
- lipo - 2011-12-07 10:31
its been a while but i finnaly get to buy high def tv
720p works amazing but 1080i a bit slow, but thats probably because xbox limitation
thanks wyrm
- wyrm - 2011-12-08 15:08
lipo Wrote:its been a while but i finnaly get to buy high def tvLipo,
720p works amazing but 1080i a bit slow, but thats probably because xbox limitation
thanks wyrm
Welcome to the 21st Century. Sorry for the apparent lack of progress on the new version of the skin. Just need to sort out one last remaining problem and then I will upload a version of the skin to my svn for the xbox. Pretty sure you and others will enjoy the improvements to the skin.
To others waiting on a number of bug fixes for the Eden version of the skin, patience. They are coming, just unfortunately I have the skin in a state locally that is not particularly stable. Will hopefully have things sorted soon.
Wyrm (xTV-SAF)
- wyrm - 2011-12-09 03:10
htpcrelic Wrote:I just updated to the latest version and I can't get fanart to show up in any view.htpcrelic,
Just made a push to my svn fixing this problem. I just managed to squeak in before the 2am Paris time cutoff for the Passion Repo so it should be available right NOW. Still working on new Horizontal Home menu which I did not push to my googlecode SVN so there maybe a few little issues. If there is any major problems try the Rollback button on the addon screen to rollback to a previous version of the skin.
Wyrm (xTV-SAF)