loggio Wrote:Qualar,

The issue Drazzilb is talking about with thumbnails/posters lagging, and being "slow" is real, i experience this also. It's the skin that's doing it, it's not a hardware issue. I have reason to believe the issue is with the thumbnails not loading in the "background"

ReFocus had this issue also, but only with it's poster view. When using confluence and most other skins i could scroll extremely fast through thumbnail views/poster views etc without issue, though when trying to scroll fast through ReFocus's 'poster view' it would quickly become slow and unpleasant. I raised the issue with the developer and he tried to tell me it was a hardware issue also, though upon further investigation, he released a new version that fixed the issue. I believe he changed thumbnails to load in the background just like they do in confluence and many other skins.

I'm having the EXACT same issues with ALL versions of rapier.

Quoted from Jeroen (creator of ReFocus) "For me Confluence loads all images too, so it could be down to how fast the system is. That said though I did notice that I forgot to set the poster images as textures to load in the background. I have now also set it to always preload 4 images. So I'm hoping this will speed it up for you. It did for me although nothing earth shattering. If you have to scroll through a large library though I would advice to use the scrollbars as that will always be much faster."

Hope this helps, if you do this for most views the skins speed will be greatly improved i believe. Maybe you could contact him for further info on how he fixed it. But a assure you, it's a problem with the skin and NOT hardware.

cheers,
and great work btw

qualar Wrote:If someone get get more info from the refocus developer about how to do this I will make the changes.

loggio Wrote:Qualar,

I'm looking into it now, I've found the problem. Got it running faster already. I will modify and upload my fixes in due time. Stay tuned.

Also,

I may be missing something, in library "sort by: name" where is the option to change ascending or descending ? all my movies are Z-A and i cannot change this..


Loggio.

loggio Wrote:Ok qualar,

the main thing that was slowing things down was the InfoPane... When this was "on" it was causing sluggish activity while navigating through quite a few different view types, and when switched "off" these views would run smooth again. The two views i use most are 'large poster' and 'thumbnail'

The problem was with the includes_InfoPane.xml
It was not loading it's textures in the background, especially the little thumbnails and logo's etc.

Changed most textured (png's and such) strings,
From:
<texture>
TO
<texture background="true">

Uploaded the file. Test before & after. Let me know how it goes.
Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zbe1pxzp950c5zb

Also,

looking through a lot of the ''views'' code, a lot of the textures are not loading from the background, that's why some are slow and sluggy and others are speedy.

did you have any information regarding "Ascending/Descending" order when sorting by name/date added etc?

cheers,
loggio

qualar Wrote:I have changed all the textures to load in background for all views now.

Regarding Ascending/Descending mine always shows my library in Ascending.

loggio Wrote:Qualar,

i had a quick look through confidence code, i stripped out the code for ascending/descending toggle, if you could add this as a small arrow toggle button next to "sort by" in the menubar it would be greatly appreciated. what do you think?

this is the "Sort by" code inside 'includes_MenuBar' you'd be looking for:

<control type="button" id="3">
<description>Sort by button</description>
<include>MenuBarWideBtn</include>
<label>103</label>
</control>

Add the following code from confluence below, and modify to suit the skin:

<control type="togglebutton" id="4">
<description>Sort asc</description>
<posx>220</posx>
<posy>53</posy>
<label>-</label>
<onleft>3</onleft>
<onright>50</onright>
<onup>2</onup>
<ondown>99</ondown>
</control>



Cheers,
Loggio.