[MOD] Affini's PM3 Mod'd Skin

HarshReality Wrote:Aff, something I want to run by you for your opinion....

The one view for the music library... I'll call it a flip book with the album views and the data at the bottom. What do you think of something similar with the Video library where the covers are in a straight line? No data under it except the name thats there but the covers in a flip book style similar to the music library view but a bit larger. And, how dificult do you think it would be to impliment?

Harsh,
Sorry for the late response... I did not get an email on this post.

I want to make PM3 a widescreen skin... e.g. make the left-side menu dissapear to allow better use of the screen real estate. This would allow for something like you are talking about. But more then I can tackle myself. I'm better with the photoshop side of things then the XML itself.

I do like the scrolling covers look. Tilted looks nice or like these...

Xephyr XBMC skin


Vudu media box has a cool one too

Affini Wrote:Affini-PMIII-rev9834.zip...

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5FNJL1IV

thanks, the mod's look and sound sweet.

TIP:
maybe you can post de "updates" in the "first opening post" of this topic. That way people do not have to search through the whole topic to find what the latest version is.

keep up the good modding-work...

jochenz Wrote:thanks, the mod's look and sound sweet.

TIP:
maybe you can post de "updates" in the "first opening post" of this topic. That way people do not have to search through the whole topic to find what the latest version is.

keep up the good modding-work...

let me know how to edit the first post and I will... i have not seen a way to do it on this forum

Affini Wrote:let me know how to edit the first post and I will... i have not seen a way to do it on this forum

How to edit your posts

It should be possible. Can't you just click the edit button on your first post?

Especially in these kind of topics, it would be easy to be able to edit your first post...moderator

jochenz Wrote:How to edit your posts

It should be possible. Can't you just click the edit button on your first post?

Especially in these kind of topics, it would be easy to be able to edit your first post...moderator

there is NOT an edit button... I'm not a retard.

No offence to the creator, I don't like it. Any skin that does not have a simple settings button is pretty well useless. Sorry.

maximus Wrote:No offence to the creator, I don't like it. Any skin that does not have a simple settings button is pretty well useless. Sorry.

You don't like it, don't use it... why waste the time posting?

Not everyone will find everything useful, or atually understand the design... maybe both for you?

If you actually read the info I give in the first post, the skin DOES have a hidden settings button, for good reason. There should never be a reason to constantly mess with the settings so there is no need to have it on the main menu, or in plain sight. To have this on the main screen is actually poor GUI design.... or do you put the device manager shortcut on your windows desktop?

... I don't care either way.

maximus Wrote:No offence to the creator, I don't like it. Any skin that does not have a simple settings button is pretty well useless. Sorry.

What's useless is commenting on a skin when you didn't even take the time to learn how it works.

Obviously everyone has different tastes, but I agree with Affini that there isn't a need to have the settings be a visible control on the home screen. Once it's set up, there's not a lot of reason to be constantly going into settings.

I finally got around to trying out this skin - thought it was the "bees knees" with the direct TV and Movie links on the home page. I like the settings thingee hidden as well. Like you said, no need for joe blow to have access to it.

I do have a couple of questions though.

1 - Is the skin set-up to always load each area in file mode as it is doing on my set-up - or am I doing something wrong? If this is the way you have set it up, can this be easily changed? I always use library mode and when I select either of the links (TV/movie) file mode is the result.

2 - Hiding some of the buttons on the home page. I realise you can set the visible tags, but I'm not sure how to set "invisible" tags. Do I just change the </visible> to </invisible>? or do I have to add another line? The manual only mentions "visible" tags

Thx in advance. Great skin BTW

KidKiwi Wrote:I finally got around to trying out this skin - thought it was the "bees knees" with the direct TV and Movie links on the home page. I like the settings thingee hidden as well. Like you said, no need for joe blow to have access to it.

I do have a couple of questions though.

1 - Is the skin set-up to always load each area in file mode as it is doing on my set-up - or am I doing something wrong? If this is the way you have set it up, can this be easily changed? I always use library mode and when I select either of the links (TV/movie) file mode is the result.

2 - Hiding some of the buttons on the home page. I realise you can set the visible tags, but I'm not sure how to set "invisible" tags. Do I just change the </visible> to </invisible>? or do I have to add another line? The manual only mentions "visible" tags

Thx in advance. Great skin BTW

1 - Yes, it loads in Files view. You change this by changing the bookmarks... do a search on it in the online manual and it will tell you the options for Library views.

2 - search the onlin manual for visability... it will explain it