Skin & UI Suggestions for Frodo

KidKiwi · 2012-02-01 22:38

pecinko Wrote:That's interesting way of using PlotOutline

No, as Black said, those are not affected.

Thx. As there is no comment field that I know of, then it's the next best thing. Means running a custom skin though, but I tend not to upgrade very often - too much to change!

It would be nice if a comment field was a stock part of xbmc. There are lots of things to comment on. Perhaps this wouldn't be necessary if xbmc exported every little piece of info in the db - but very necessary when you rebuild the db from scratch.

Stranger · 2012-02-02 20:38

Scroll by letter instead of page?

frellAn · 2012-02-03 01:26

Stranger Wrote:Scroll by letter instead of page?

+1

Robotica · 2012-02-03 01:48

jmarshall Wrote:<overlaytexture> is unlikely to be added unless there is an extreme need for it. You already have a diffuse + border, do you really need something else? Prove it.

This could be very usefull for some picture related views.. An overlay with some meta data.

pecinko · 2012-02-22 12:20

ControlGroup(foo).Position(foo)

Something that bothered me from the beginning is lack of possibility to make animation based on focused position in Grouplist control. HasFocus(foo) can't be used always as sometimes items are hidden, unknown ID (like in context menu) or are subject to change without notice (system buttons).

toolpunk · 2012-02-22 14:06

Gradients for text would be a very welcome addition.

`Black · 2012-02-25 14:09

Would be nice if the zoom animation wouldn't stretch the border of an image if specified. It should be an option of course.

pecinko · 2012-03-10 15:59

ListItem.IsHD (for 720 and 1080 videos)

I know it can be achieved using string comparison but it would be much easier if this check would be available.

`Black · 2012-03-10 18:32

Don't think that's necessary... IntegerGreaterThan(...) is fast and easy enough.

Big_Noid · 2012-03-18 23:22

I would like to suggest a boolean if a movie or tv show and any of it's underlying items (episodes/seasons) or musicvideo are in the recently added database part, lets say ListItem.IsRecent. Reason for this is that I show a marker in my skin to indicate that the item has been recently added and I do this now by a whole bunch of stringcompares on the recently added home window properties. Alternatively a ListItem.DatabasePath could also do the trick I think, still substrings are needed then, but not as much as I have to do now.

Stranger Fan Posts: 318 Joined: Oct 2009 Reputation: 0 Location: London, UK	2012-02-02 20:38 Post: #22 Scroll by letter instead of page? [Guide/Resource] Open-source Unicode typefaces/fonts [Download] XeeBo Thumbs: Custom Thumbnails for Home Menu Favourites [Resource] Google TV Design Guidelines: Useful tips for 10-foot Interfaces
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frellAn Senior Member Posts: 181 Joined: Jul 2010 Reputation: 6 Location: Sweden	2012-02-03 01:26 Post: #23 Stranger Wrote:Scroll by letter instead of page? +1 Fusion Migma - Music Genre Backdrops - Check Out My Band
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Robotica Posting Freak Posts: 927 Joined: Aug 2010 Reputation: 3	2012-02-03 01:48 Post: #24 jmarshall Wrote:<overlaytexture> is unlikely to be added unless there is an extreme need for it. You already have a diffuse + border, do you really need something else? Prove it. This could be very usefull for some picture related views.. An overlay with some meta data.
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pecinko Donor Posts: 3,001 Joined: Dec 2008 Reputation: 26 Location: Prague / Belgrade	2012-02-22 12:20 Post: #25 ControlGroup(foo).Position(foo) Something that bothered me from the beginning is lack of possibility to make animation based on focused position in Grouplist control. HasFocus(foo) can't be used always as sometimes items are hidden, unknown ID (like in context menu) or are subject to change without notice (system buttons). My skins: Quartz Amber
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toolpunk Member Posts: 91 Joined: May 2010 Reputation: 0	2012-02-22 14:06 Post: #26 Gradients for text would be a very welcome addition. Meet Aerith, my first XBMC skin.
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`Black Skilled Skinner Posts: 2,000 Joined: Apr 2009 Reputation: 49 Location: Germany	2012-02-25 14:09 Post: #27 Would be nice if the zoom animation wouldn't stretch the border of an image if specified. It should be an option of course.
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pecinko Donor Posts: 3,001 Joined: Dec 2008 Reputation: 26 Location: Prague / Belgrade	2012-03-10 15:59 Post: #28 ListItem.IsHD (for 720 and 1080 videos) I know it can be achieved using string comparison but it would be much easier if this check would be available. My skins: Quartz Amber
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`Black Skilled Skinner Posts: 2,000 Joined: Apr 2009 Reputation: 49 Location: Germany	2012-03-10 18:32 Post: #29 Don't think that's necessary... IntegerGreaterThan(...) is fast and easy enough.
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