Modifying the Home screen

MacUsers · 2010-09-27 18:03

Hi there;

I was trying to modify the Home screen a little bit to fit my needs and I have two questions for the time being.

How can I change the the pictures in the film-strip? I don't see pictures are included in the skin as a normal .jpg or .png file.
Is there a way to display a brief weather information (only Temp. and an icon) on the home screen beside the Date/time field?

Hope someone can help. Thanks in advance though. Cheers!!

Sharpe · 2010-09-27 18:42

1. Those images are packed up in the media folder Textures.xbt file. To change them you would need to download the svn, switch the images then rebuild the textures file.

In order to do that - you would need to extract this into the downloaded SVN folder.

2. You would need to mod that into the skin - something like this inserted in the home.xml:

Code:

<control type="group">

<animation effect="fade" time="200" start="100" end="0">WindowClose</animation>

<control type="image">

<description>Weather image</description>

<posx>20</posx>

<posy>640</posy>

<width>40</width>

<height>40</height>

<aspectratio>keep</aspectratio>

<texture>$INFO[Weather.Conditions]</texture>

</control>

<control type="label">

<description>time label</description>

<posx>60</posx>

<posy>640</posy>

<width>200</width>

<height>40</height>

<align>left</align>

<aligny>center</aligny>

<font>fontKB</font>

<textcolor>white</textcolor>

<shadowcolor>black</shadowcolor>

<label>[b]$INFO[Weather.Temperature][/b]</label>

</control>

</control>

MacUsers · 2010-09-27 21:42

Thanks a lot Sharpe, really appreciate it. I'll give it a try tonight and report here back how did it go. Cheers!!

MacUsers · 2010-09-29 13:25

Sharpe Wrote:2. You would need to mod that into the skin - something like this inserted in the home.xml:

That worked pretty good actually. Thanks for your help. This is what I came up so far, after a bit or try & error.....

[Image: 5036074918_15d6de528d_z.jpg]

I'm learning. How can I add a Media eject button to the Home screen? Cheers!!

MacUsers · 2010-09-29 14:17

Sharpe Wrote:In order to do that - you would need to extract this into the downloaded SVN folder.

I think, I'm stuck here again. Downloaded the linked file and found there is a directory inside, called "media" [again] with a hand full of .dll files. What to do with all those .dlls? Do I really need a windows PC to do that?

Never thought I'd ever need a windows PC for doing something, at least for XBMC Confused

Is there any Linux or OS X way of doing that? Cheers!!!

Sharpe · 2010-09-29 17:18

You could always just copy over the files unpacked into the media folder from the SVN - that would work.

I am sure that there are ways to use TexturePacker under a different OS - it's just that I use a windows machine for all the skinning stuff so I don't know what they are.

Nice work btw.

There already is a media eject button - it's visible when it's focussed and sits alongside some other buttons - accessible by pressing down. To make it permanently visible just remove the <visible> line

This is the code:

Code:

<control>

    <description>Eject Disc Button</description>

    <type>button</type>

    <id>158</id>

    <posx>902.70</posx>

    <posy>620</posy>

    <width>70.08</width>

    <height>62.5</height>

    <onclick>XBMC.EjectTray()</onclick>

    <texturefocus>home-tray-focus.png</texturefocus>

    <texturenofocus>home-tray.png</texturenofocus>

    <onleft>162</onleft>

    <onright>157</onright>

    <onup>11</onup>

    <ondown>11</ondown>

    <include>home-global-button</include>

    <visible>Control.HasFocus(158) | ControlGroup(10).HasFocus()</visible>

</control>

MacUsers · 2010-10-02 02:32

Hi Sharpe,
Another question: How can I directly go back to the Home screen regardless of the current position? Is it possible other than going previous screen < previous screen < previous screen like that? cheers!!

mcborzu · 2010-10-02 02:36

MacUsers Wrote:Hi Sharpe,
Another question: How can I directly go back to the Home screen regardless of the current position? Is it possible other than going previous screen < previous screen < previous screen like that? cheers!!

[esc] always goes to Home

MacUsers · 2010-10-02 03:21

mcborzu Wrote:[esc] always goes to Home

That works but not always, e.g. in the Settings, Esc takes you back to the previous screen.

BTW, do you know how to map Esc to remote control key? Cheers!!

mcborzu · 2010-10-02 03:26

Search keymap or keymap.xml in the wiki for a more detailed instructions:

<whateverbutton>ActivateWindow(Home)</whateverbutton>

I believe would work...

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mcborzu Skilled Skinner Posts: 3,381 Joined: Feb 2009 Reputation: 15 Location: dsf	2010-10-02 03:26 Post: #10 Search keymap or keymap.xml in the wiki for a more detailed instructions: <whateverbutton>ActivateWindow(Home)</whateverbutton> I believe would work... Check out The Carmichael - A Skin For XBMC Check out Night - A Skin For XBMC Check out Unfinished - A Skin For XBMC
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