XBMCTex - The Textures.xpr Generator

since i wasted a few hours on it, i figured i ought to post it somewhere to save others the trouble. i wrote a windows batch script which simplified building xpr files, especially themes.
you put the bat file & the xbmctex.exe together in a directory. you can then drag subdirectories in that location onto the bat file and xbmctex will build xprs with the same name as those directories.
example of usage:
i have a "themes" folder where i put the stuff i'm working on.
directory structure looks like this:
<themes>
<themes>\batch.bat
<themes>\xbmctex.exe
say i'm working on a v for vendetta theme. i would put all the files i want that theme to include in a subdirectory:
<themes>\vforvendetta\graphics *.png
then to build the xpr, i simply drag & drop that directory onto the bat file and it'll spit out a vforvendetta.xpr file in the same directory xbmctex.exe is located in.
it has a fork which looks for and deletes the file to be created if it already exists. it's intended to make developing themes a little easier.

Quote:@echo off
set startdir=%cd%
set target=%1
chdir /d %target%
for %%* in (%target%) do set mydir=%%~n*
if not defined mydir set mydir=%cd:\=%
cd..
if exist %mydir%.xpr echo file %mydir%.xpr already exists, deleting old copy...
if exist %mydir%.xpr del /f /q %mydir%.xpr
echo.
xbmctex.exe -input %mydir% -quality max -output %mydir%.xpr
pause

Quote: -input <dir> Input directory. Default: current dir
-output <dir> Output directory/filename. Default: Textures.xpr
-quality <qual> Quality setting (min, low, normal, high, max). Default: normal

can i set different quality for subdirectories to build one xpr file?

i try to make my own theme with not so big texture.xpr file

directory structure
\skinmedia\graphics *.png
\multiimage\4x3home-myprograms\graphics *.png
\multiimage\4x3home-mymusic\graphics *.png
.
.
\splash\animation\graphics *.png


this is my out of order .bat file

@echo off
xbmctex -input "skinmedia" -quality max -input "multiimage" -quality min -input "splash" -quality normal -output "new"

wtf?

Has anyone tried building textures.xpr using XBMCTex while in a remote desktop session?
I've a feeling that is the cause of the below error, but I could be wrong.

I'm fairly sure It worked the first time I did it (when I was at the machine)
I needed to do another build and kicked it off remotely, and got the below error.
I'll try another local build tonight when I can get to the machine.

Thanks for any help.
J

jgawera Wrote:Has anyone tried building textures.xpr using XBMCTex while in a remote desktop session?

Ohh, I'm not alone. Sounds weird that it seems only to occur in RDP-Session. I tried to build XBMC and had the same problem even though I don't know what XBMCTex is. If I have to go to the maschine to build XBMC, I got a problem

greetz
ff

Confirmed:
XBMCTex does not work over a remote desktop connection.
I've tried a local build and it worked just fine.

Does anybody know if this can be fixed?

Thanks
J

Dunno. I don't have time to investigate. It is failing to init the D3D device. Perhaps googling some info up on it will be helpful?

Can you extract a XPR file with this tool? If not, how can I extract a XPR file? Thanks!

I'm curious about what criteria this uses to determine how to pack the texture. I have two textures that are 720x128, but for some reason they are being packed at different dimensions, with one of them going way up to 1024 width and wasting a lot of space.

Here is a snip from the log:


And here is the command line for XBMCTex:
XBMCTex -input media -quality high -output media -noprotect >> pack.log