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Hi everyone,
I have been playing with the Aeon Nox 5 Silvo skin for some time now and I have to say I absolutely love it. A huge thank you to everyone involved in its development.
I especially like the customizability, as I like to tweak the skin to my own preferences.
My Question: How can I change the vertical positioning of the widgets on the home page? I would like to move them down to show more of the background image.
I have managed to move the main menu controls to the bottom of the screen but I cannot figure out how to move the widgets. I am by no means a coder, but I am not afraid to learn.
I am currently only using widget 1, with the compact panel view.
Please help me find the solution. I apologize if his answer has already been given, but I did not find it in any of my search results.
Thanks in advance for any and all help,
G.
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Thanks mikeSiLVO, for the quick response, and thanks again to BigNoid, Mr. V and everyone else.
I am using Jarvis v16.1,
Switching to Widget 2 does not help as it is actually displayed above widget 1 when both are active.
What I am attempting is to move widget 1 ( or both 1 and 2 if necessary ) to a lower position on the home screen.
It seems logical to me that their positions must be defined somewhere, most likely in one of the many .xml files. I just don't seem to be able to figure out where or in which one.
I really appreciate any help with this.
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You would have to tell me the changes you made cause altering the position of the menu bar or adding a slide animation won't affect what gets focused. Home always focuses id 9000 regardless of the position of the menu.
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I only made 2 changes in home.xml.
i changed:
<control type="group">
<visible>!StringCompare(Skin.String(MainMenu.Layout),$LOCALIZE[31994])</visible>
<top>424</top>
to:
<control type="group">
<visible>!StringCompare(Skin.String(MainMenu.Layout),$LOCALIZE[31994])</visible>
<top>511</top>
and:
<control type="group">
<visible>!StringCompare(Skin.String(MainMenu.Layout),$LOCALIZE[31994])</visible>
<top>453</top>
to:
<control type="group">
<visible>!StringCompare(Skin.String(MainMenu.Layout),$LOCALIZE[31994])</visible>
<top>540</top>
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2016-07-26, 08:25
(This post was last modified: 2016-07-26, 08:54 by grc64.)
As I mentioned before, all I did was change the "top></top" value by a factor of +87. This change made the focus change from the main menu to widget 1.
Is there a better (cleaner) way to change the main menu position, similar to the way in which you helped me move the widget, which would still leave it in focus?
Thanks again for the help.
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Hey;
I used the advice you posted here to lower my widgets when using Aeon Nox Silvo 5 and Jarvis, and it worked flawlessly. Thank you for the help, it allowed me to move the widgets downward so I could view the backgrounds I had put in place for each menu better!
Now that Kodi 17 has come out, I have downloaded the new Version of Aeon Nox Silvo and am currently in the process of migrating my settings so things look more or less the same. I noticed that some of the XML files in the new skin are a bit different, and I am having a bit of difficulty getting the widgets to move down like they did when I added the animation command to the Includes_Widgets.xml. I modified the conditions in the animation command to suit the code present in the home.xml, but I just can't seem to get the animation to take effect. Here is what the line I entered looks like:
<animation effect="slide" end="0,140" condition="!String.IsEqual(Skin.String(MainMenu.Layout),15) + !Skin.HasSetting(lowermainmenu)">Conditional</animation>
Perhaps you can see what I'm doing wrong. Any Advice would be appreciated.
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*Update*
I removed
+ !Skin.HasSetting(lowermainmenu)
from the line of code and now the widget appears exactly where I want it to. However; I'm guessing this might have undesirable effects if the main menu position wasn't set to low in the skin settings.