Transparency! v4.0.5 for XBMC Eden 11.0

(2012-04-14 23:16)StefanK Wrote:  I have just spent most of 24 hours tweaking two machines to work nice and smooth with this amazing skin.
And then, out of curiosity I tryed to hide the settings from the main menu - by disabling the settings in the skin setup.
Now I have no clue how to get back to the settings - please HELP.

it's also available on the shutdown menu....unless you disabled that one too...

as a last resort, quit xbmc and edit guisettings.xml
here the line to look for:
<setting type="bool" name="skin.transparency.Menu_Settings">true</setting>
change it to false, save and start xbmc.

Thank you so much for an immediate and easy answer. Unfortunately I kept reloading page 19 of this thread instead of looking for page 20, which prolonged my period of stress :-)

I had also disabled the option in the shutdown menu and failed to find the right line in guisettings. But I did try som learning by doing xml-coding, as I tried to change one of my favourites instead, by entering this:
<setting type="string" name="skin.transparency.Menu_Programs_Sub_Custom18_Path">activatewindow(10004)</setting>
It didn't work - can you finish my lesson by telling me how to use the commands from this page http://www.xbmc4xbox.org/wiki/index.php?...of_Windows ?

(2012-04-15 01:18)StefanK Wrote:  Thank you so much for an immediate and easy answer. Unfortunately I kept reloading page 19 of this thread instead of looking for page 20, which prolonged my period of stress :-)

I had also disabled the option in the shutdown menu and failed to find the right line in guisettings. But I did try som learning by doing xml-coding, as I tried to change one of my favourites instead, by entering this:
<setting type="string" name="skin.transparency.Menu_Programs_Sub_Custom18_Path">activatewindow(10004)</setting>
It didn't work - can you finish my lesson by telling me how to use the commands from this page http://www.xbmc4xbox.org/wiki/index.php?...of_Windows ?

you can use ActivateWindow(Settings).

Here appears thats more about skin then XBMC ...

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=129154

... is there any way to get "now playing" pop-up when video is rolling without need to go out in home screen menus.
So ... I dont ask for OSD menu under "m" key what colleges suggest in topic, I ask for "Player controles - now playing" pop-up window!

(2012-04-17 17:16)Zrino Wrote:  Here appears thats more about skin then XBMC ...

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=129154

... is there any way to get "now playing" pop-up when video is rolling without need to go out in home screen menus.
So ... I dont ask for OSD menu under "m" key what colleges suggest in topic, I ask for "Player controles - now playing" pop-up window!

you would need to adjust the keymap for your keyboard/remote.

by default, 'm' brings up the player controls everywhere in the skin except in the fullscreen video window,
'm' is mapped to the video osd there.

<somekey>ActivateWindow(playercontrols)</somekey>

THNX Ronie for a replay!

When I put string <u>ActivateWindow(playercontrols)</u> in global/keyboard section of keyboard.xml I can call "playercontrols" everywhere except fullscreen video like u said.
When I put string <u>ActivateWindow(playercontrols)</u> in fullscreenVideo/keyboard section of keyboard.xml nothing happen when video plays.

... so, there is no way to get "playerControls" under fullscreen video? Am I right?

(2012-04-17 23:01)Zrino Wrote:  THNX Ronie for a replay!

When I put string <u>ActivateWindow(playercontrols)</u> in global/keyboard section of keyboard.xml I can call "playercontrols" everywhere except fullscreen video like u said.
When I put string <u>ActivateWindow(playercontrols)</u> in fullscreenVideo/keyboard section of keyboard.xml nothing happen when video plays.

... so, there is no way to get "playerControls" under fullscreen video? Am I right?

ah, turns out you also need to edit PlayerControls.xml in the skin.
change this line:
to:

Ronie thnx ... U rocks! Works very well.
Put this^^ in next version of T!

EDIT: just to inform u ...
when I call "playerControls" under "fullscreenVideo" pop-up screen doesn't show little video playback picture inside

(2012-04-17 23:29)Zrino Wrote:  Ronie thnx ... U rocks! Works very well.
Put this^^ in next version of T!

just wondering, why would you prefer to use the player controls instead of the video osd?

(2012-04-17 23:29)Zrino Wrote:  EDIT: just to inform u ...
when I call "playerControls" under "fullscreenVideo" pop-up screen doesn't show little video playback picture inside

in PlayerControls.xml, remove the line in bold:

Quote: <control type="videowindow">
<posx>34</posx>
<posy>0</posy>
<width>173</width>
<height>156</height>
<aligny>bottom</aligny>
<visible>!Window.IsVisible(FullScreenVideo)</visible>
</control>

(2012-04-17 23:35)ronie Wrote:  just wondering, why would you prefer to use the player controls instead of the video osd?

I and my inmates, especially my little daughter frequently use "shuffle", "repeat options" and "dvd disc start" witch all we have only in playerControls, not in OSD (or I miss something?)
So I want to make for her XBMC experience as friendly as it can be.


EDIT:
this happen when I remove string

this without removing string