[RELEASE] Back Row (Skin)

Hi there richmond - good to hear that you and your wife are liking the skin.
Yes you're right it was set up like that intentionally to take you straight to the Movies and TV Shows titles - mainly just because that was the convention at the time. As a bit of a quick fix for you I've added a skin settings option that lets you change the Movies and TV Shows destination to their root levels instead.

Cheers!

First let me say thank you very much, i downloaded the new version yesterday. I, unfortunately, had a very strange result and i'm hoping you can understand it because i'm a little balder right now than i was yesterday

i installed the new version on a test machine, a laptop that is running windows vista home 64 bit, with an intel centrino processor. I clicked on the new setting that you added in skin settings and presto everything worked like a charm the main specs of the system from the debug log are here:


The laptop is a 16x9 screen

when i selected the tv option in the home screen this is what appears in the log:


You will see from the log the skin does: Attempting to quickpath to: tvshows
and everything works, both in the tvshows section and the movies section which i haven't included.

Conversely, when i installed the new skin on my primary machine, a desktop with the following specs:


I had the original problem of the tvshows and movies buttons on the home screen sending me to the titles section. For troubleshooting purposes I made sure to use the same xbmc build , but the same problems happened on the official Camelot Release as well. Each done on a full install of XBMC.

The screen in this case is a 4:3 television set as opposed to the16x9 screen on the laptop

When i click on the tvshows button the following shows up in the log:


In this case you will note the log shows:
Attempting to quickpath to: tvshowtitles

this appears to be the major difference as to why it is not working on the desktop but is working on the laptop. I have toggled the skin settings to enable and disable the root level option on both the laptop and the desktop. On the laptop the toggle works as intended, but on the desktop it continues to produce the exact same results, sending me to the titles list no matter the setting

I realize this was not something you intended on adding to the skin, but if you could shed any light on what i might be doing wrong here it would be greatly appreciated. The only thing i seem to be able to think of myself is it has something to do with the fact that the desktop is running on a 4:3 screen and the laptop on a 16x9, but i don't see how. Any help in this regard would be truly apppreciated.

i will post the the complete debug logs for the laptop and the destop in the following posts for further reference.

Full logs: Working laptop:
http://pastebin.com/m54abbb9

Not working destop:
http://pastebin.com/m2ece2b77


thanks.

Yep it's like you stated - it's because the 4:3 and 16:9 versions of the skin are actually different - (A while back I pretty much stopped working on the 4:3 stuff and concentrated on only updating the 16:9 version). Really I should have just scrapped both and just concentrated on a 720p version - (Which I do intend to do when I get the time in the new year).

I've just made some alterations to the 4:3 files and the home screen should work as you want it to now.

just wanted to say thank you very much for your efforts. everything works perfectly.

can't wait to see what else you have planned.

Same here. Skin close to perfect. Thank you so much for your work.

Question : how do I "force" the music's 30s ext info view? For the moment, when I hit TAB, I got a crappy black view. Maybe I'm missing something...

Pressing the player controls button should do the trick

Nice, works like a charm ! Thank you very much.

This is a very well done skin. I really like how the covers/posters are displayed nice and large but not too overwhelming. I also like the the info is displayed.

There is only a couple things I will comment on.

In the recently added TV/Movies on the main page it would be nice if additional information could be displayed when your on the episode/movie. If not sliding in when your on the TV/Movie then could you possibly call up the info screen when pressing "i" ?

I also have to agree with this:

AnalogKid Wrote:Fanart Wrap view for Movies (and TV Shows)
The 'current' selected Movie (or TV show) is not central... it's one position too far to the left (i.e. 3rd from the left). I understand it's to make the 'info' transition nice and easy (and just slots into the right hand side nicely... but it looks odd. It might be nicer to slide the current movie to the left as the info appears, and slide back to the right (middle) afterwards?

Would be nice to have the info no displayed unless triggered. Most of the time you know about the shows you watch but you may want someone new to read that info first, hence triggering make sense.

Thanks for all you work on this skin, its very polished, I've enjoyed using it.

I've moved the movie focus in that view to the centre and altered the info to match up.

Cheers guys.

this may sound stupid but is there a hidden menu somewhere that allows me to exit out of this skin cause its anoying as hell

thanks

just started using this skin and its not bad at all