[RELEASE] The Big Picture (Pictures) Plugin

Jeroen Wrote:Sphere, I just thought about this site maybe being suitable as a source: http://gigapica.geenstijl.nl/ ?

It's a dutch site, but they have started providing english descriptions some time ago.

One issue may be that not all images are in landscape format (mostly when in an album), but using a fixed with and scaling method this can be remedied (to an extent) in the skin file.

Just thought I'd let you know. Cheers

"French workers, hooligans from the banlieues and other angry moustaches continue to put pressure on President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age. While hardworking citizens in North-European countries only retire after 67 or 69, the arrogant strike-hooked Laissez-faire fucktards in France burn the streets because they demand partytime after 60. Assholes."

Arf!

Perhaps some not, what you'd call, Politically Correct. But still amusing

Some very nice pics here.

Yeah they aren't the most political correct site at times Not to be taken too serious either, take it with a grain of salt
I can imagine it being considered too edgy for the add-on but the pictures are pretty good, and that's kind of what takes the stage in this add-on, so it's just a suggestion

Hi,

I decided to skip the Version 1.3.4 and did instead Version 1.4.0.
This is because I rewrote ~80% of the Code.

The addon now uses (read/write) a xml-file which contains the sources, albums and pictures.
In the stable version this file will be updated in the background but in this version it will only be updated if the choosen source or album is empty or you press the context-menu key. The context-menu key will update all elements and in this ~8-12 seconds you can not switch the source but you can switch the picture with left and right.

This beta creates much debug logging in your xbmc log, if you have any problems please send me your xbmc log.

You should notice that when you enter a source or album you already opened (or you did an over-all-update with the context-key) the content will be shown instantly (of coruse the picture itself has still to be loaded by xbmc).
There are no optical changes - in the next beta the default skin will be minor changed/improved.

I uploaded beta1 and would be very happy if some if you could test it. Please give feedback, even if it is "it works".

http://sphere-xbmc-addons.googlecode.com....4.0b1.zip

thanks
sphere

It works!

Linux, Darma RC1

It Works!

win 7 Dharma B4

Thnx!!

Hi,

thanks pyrocyd and Johnnyfive for testing!

next beta in a few days

Hi again,

I did a few changes in the skin. It would be nice if you could have a look and give feedback if you like the visible changes or not

You can download beta2 here: http://sphere-xbmc-addons.googlecode.com....0b2-2.zip

there are only minor changes in the code, it works like the beta 1:
- For an update of the list of albums/pictures press the context menu button ('c' on keyboard). Temporarily I added an indication label while updating - this wont be needed in the stable version.

If you have suggestions in improving the skin, you are welcome...

thanks
sphere

Hi Sphere, good work on the update, looking good

One suggestion I could make about the skin is to place the infolabels and the label background textures outside of the actual container. By doing this it will make only the pictures scroll, while the labels remain in place while scrolling. When not scrolling the labels will look exactly the same, but it makes the whole experience while scrolling smoother and calmer.

When placing the label outside of the list you can use:

<label>$INFO[Container(100).ListItem(0).Label]</label>

Just a suggestion, keep up the good work

Greetings,
Jeroen

Jeroen Wrote:One suggestion I could make about the skin is to place the infolabels and the label background textures outside of the actual container.

Hi Jeroen,

thanks for your comment - I will think about this

You have definitly more skinning knowlage then me, perhaps you can answer me two Questions:
1. Do you see any possibility to have any kind of scrolling or animation when switching the sources (with up and down)?
2. the same with entering an album and going back...

regards,
sphere

I'm afraid not. The only way I think would be by using multiple containers, so you could do an animation on exiting one container and another animation on the one being opened. But that would be very inefficient code-wise on the skin and the add-on itself. If XBMC would allow having more than 1 active container I think it would be easier, but it can't unfortunately.