[deezee69]

hi been working on a skin and i need some help to add icons/thumbs to each of my categories eg movies, tv shows the icons should follow the text and stay visable at all times. i have background images for each categories plus text and the text is in wraplist.

from this












to this







im just trying different looks . thanks

[Wir3d]

Do you have any code prepared or are you looking for someone to do it?

[Jeroen]

The wiki contains excellent documentation on various aspects of skinning, so including wraplists, which are very easy to make.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Skinning_XBMC

[deezee69]

i have the whole skin its the vinci skin all i did is change a few things to make it work and look they way i like it. so the first pic at the top is my home screen which is fully functional but i just cant seem to add the icons like the bottom pic to the wraplist of the text you see eg tvshows ,movies. i did look in the wiki did find what i thought i needed i thought wraplist was for text only??. i also looked at all the wrap views and tried some things using what i saw but i couldnt make it work . i dont want some one to write a whole home page but if some one can paste an example of what it should look like and ill try to figure it out. i tried to copy paste my home.xml so people can tell me what im doing wrong but its says its to big. just a example or a link to an example or the link to to right section of the wiki would be fine. i only ask questions when ive tried everything else.
thanks

[Jeroen]

You can use http://www.pastebin.com to post your xml code.

Wraplist can contain images as well. You just add a texture control just like you would add a label control.
As is demonstrated here:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Wrap_List_Container

[Wir3d]

My guess us you are missing the content portion of the wraplist.
This is where you set the images and labels that are called out in the itemlayout and focusedlayout sections in your wraplist.
Content goes after /focusedlayout but before the last control.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Static_List_Content

Hope this helps.

[Hitcher]

Personally, I think it looks better without them.

[deezee69]

thanks i got the idea of what to do make two parts one for the default size and settings and one for the pic in each catagory. just working on the focus part seeing that im using <icon>icon2.png</icon>for the backgrounds thanks agian

[shizzle]

Personally, I think it looks better without them.

me 2

[deezee69]

yeah i like it more like that but my wife is used to having the icons so i want to have the option just in case she bugs me about the change. plus i kinda want to no how to do it if i ever want to make my own skin and not a mode. but once im finished ill ask the guy that made the original vinci skin and see if its okay for my to release it or maybe he would use some of my ideas. ill post it once i can see whats up. also changed tvshow libary and movies libary layout.not yet to my liking.
while im asking any can one tell me how i can get rid of the lag every time i scroll thru the menu. you see i got a folder with backgrounds for each category eg. movie, tvshow i set it up on randomize. but it lags every time i scroll. i have about 15 - 30 pics in each folder. also tried changing to .jpg .png .bmp but same thing. i got them from here http://www.aeoncentral.com/backdrops.php?cat=bg_movies. if i have less pics it fixes the problem about 10 pics until i notice lag. can i do something to stop the lag without reducing the amount i can live with 20 . any suggestions on improving the design of the home page would be great. thanks

[Wir3d]

Hmm it really shouldn't matter how many you have...
I would check the size of all the images. You may have one huge one thats screwing everything up.

Size does matter

[jaredharley]

can i do something to stop the lag without reducing the amount i can live with 20

I'm guessing from the size of the pictures you posted, you're using the skin at 720p (1280x720). The skins provided from Aeon are all 1080p size - download them, resize them to 1280x720, and save them as .bmp files if you're using the xbox, and that should reduce the lag some.

[deezee69]

i reduced the pic to 1280x720 .bmp but still lagging. if i have it in custom folder not in the .xpr file it lags. but i need to have the pics in custom folder separete from the .xpr file at least for movies and tv shows.

this is my home.xml please tell me what im doing wrong or what i need to fix the lag

http://pastebin.com/f437e4c6b

thanks

[Wir3d]

Try reducing the quality of the images or make them 640x480.
If it works without lagging then your issue is image size and limited xbox memory.

I looked at the code and nothing jumped out at me.