Color Themes for Transparency!

Hi ronie,

So, I take it you have no news from "dondre" on new themes !

jpf55 Wrote:Hi ronie,

So, I take it you have no news from "dondre" on new themes !

correct.

Darn it, I'm getting all sorts of errors when trying to run TexturePacker.

I tried in XP and Win7, first I was told I was missing java, jpeg, jvm, SDL, and SDL_image. dlls. I found them and installed them but now I am getting "The ordinal 50 could not be located in the dynamic link library jpeg.dll"

Any ideas, or is there an actual installer for TexturePacker? I found a link in the skinning wiki but that link is no longer active.

Since I can't open Textures.xbt, I am also wondering why the Textures.xbt file is 66.7mb whereas the media folder without the Textures.xbt is only 11.2mb.

jpf55 Wrote:Darn it, I'm getting all sorts of errors when trying to run TexturePacker.

I tried in XP and Win7, first I was told I was missing java, jpeg, jvm, SDL, and SDL_image. dlls. I found them and installed them but now I am getting "The ordinal 50 could not be located in the dynamic link library jpeg.dll"

Any ideas, or is there an actual installer for TexturePacker? I found a link in the skinning wiki but that link is no longer active.

i think you need to put TexturePacker in the folder where xbmc is installed.

any TexturePacker related questions could better be posted in General Help and Support. ;-)

jpf55 Wrote:Since I can't open Textures.xbt, I am also wondering why the Textures.xbt file is 66.7mb whereas the media folder without the Textures.xbt is only 11.2mb.

the images are converted (not compressed) to another format that allows for faster loading of the images.

Hi ronie,
1- I finally got TexturePacker to work

2- I am puzzled , I took all the files from the media folder and changed some of them to start work on a "grey" theme. I ran the resulting folder in TexturePacker and got an .xbt file that is only 20mb whereas the Textures.xbt file is 67mb... any clues

3- In my grey media folder, I altered the "busy" icons which as you know are in a folder within the media folder and I get no errors from TexturePacker but xbmc still uses the blue "busy" icons when scanning for new content...; any ideas on this

Thanks in advance

jpf55 Wrote:Hi ronie,
1- I finally got TexturePacker to work

2- I am puzzled , I took all the files from the media folder and changed some of them to start work on a "grey" theme. I ran the resulting folder in TexturePacker and got an .xbt file that is only 20mb whereas the Textures.xbt file is 67mb... any clues

really, no idea.

note, you only have to include the images you have modified in your grey.xbt file
everything you didn't change should not be included as they will be read from Textures.xbt anyway.

jpf55 Wrote:3- In my grey media folder, I altered the "busy" icons which as you know are in a folder within the media folder and I get no errors from TexturePacker but xbmc still uses the blue "busy" icons when scanning for new content...; any ideas on this

did you copy your now grey.xbt file to the media folder of T!?
after that, restart xbmc to have it pick up the new file and select your grey theme in Settings > Appearance > Skin > Theme

ronie Wrote:really, no idea

I'll try to run the media folder contents in TexturePacker to create a new Textures.xbt to see what gives

ronie Wrote:note, you only have to include the images you have modified in your grey.xbt file everything you didn't change should not be included as they will be read from Textures.xbt anyway.

that's great to know but should the "busy" files remain in their folder? also should I rename the media folder to grey prior to running it in TexpurePacker?

ronie Wrote:did you copy your now grey.xbt file to the media folder of T!?
after that, restart xbmc to have it pick up the new file and select your grey theme in Settings > Appearance > Skin > Theme

Yes I placed grey.xbt in the media folder did not restart xbmc every time, I'll make sure

jpf55 Wrote:that's great to know but should the "busy" files remain in their folder?

yes, keep the subfolder names the same.

jpf55 Wrote:also should I rename the media folder to grey prior to running it in TexpurePacker?

no, as far as i know it doesn't matter what the foldername is.

hello folks, long time no news,

so help me god i'm so much stuck at the moment in "real life" with family & stuff

i haven't had a chance to have anything worth sharing yet for the color schemes

may the force be with those who may deliver it, thanks again to the transparency team, ronie T! has never shined as much as it does now can't wait for a add-on update