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2007-01-11, 01:27
I posted the images (all 4 of them) their size really should not matter all that much, but I wanted to let someone who is artistic be able to fix it up.
Things I can't do (but wish I could):
Make the transparency of the mirror reflection fade off on the bottom (like microsofts does)
Give all the surfaces proper depth and shadow.
Create a pretty top menu.
Just a note. The damn aspect was wrong on my win32 xbmc, so thats why all the icons are fatter then they looked as I was coding them.
Question, can you colordiffuse a ListItem.Icon over a black square, or colordiffuse a png over a ListItem.Icon. I've tried them before and after each other, moving the colordiffuse to the second one each time, and it doesn't work in win32 at least. (to darken the no focused icons)
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To be honest I couldn't even figure out how you did the reflection then I noticed you used negative numbers for the width and height, How did you even discover that that works ? seems like a huge guess even jmarshall who did the skin engine thought you id it a different way
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couldnt an image with a gradient alpha channel be placed on top of the icon image to give it the appearence that the reflection is fading away?
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Yes, but then it's fading the foreground instead of the background. Would be fine for the case above, but not so good if you were fading to a non-constant background.
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genuis!
looks great, but one think i would recommend that varies from the ms version is to put a snyopsis of the movie from the database info on the main screen, so u can scroll through the covers and see what the movie is about as well. maybe it could be put in the same brown overlay that contains the movie title? i think we can stray from the ms skin and make it more functional.
i love that we can duplicate other gui's from other projects, it shows the power of the new skin engine. I think xbmc is best served with original interfaces though. or mix and match to create something unique and different from others. I love the kaleidescape idea of having the movie info on the main screen show up when that movie is highlighted. I hope we will see a fantastic skin emerge from this... xbmc just keeps getting better and better!
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2007-01-11, 13:47
It's like jmarshall said, it's not possible in any window other then library and VideoInfo.
I tried, for a long time, but I guess I can try to find a way to trick it, but it's like he said, I doubt it.
Jmarshall, I'm new to all this SVN stuff, do you mean it's in the XBMC source now, meaning I'd have to compile it to use those functions?
Also I was wondering about whether you could just implement four point image handeling such as" posTL=0,0 posTR=150,0 posLL=0,150 posLR=150,150, it would let people put any corner of an image anywhere, it would let us skew it forward, backwards,for relflections, or rotation to any degree, and as well as any size.
Is that possible, using either the standard pos,posy,height,width or choose to use the 4-point, either or but not both?