settings menu color

GranCanaria Wrote:but I still like to find out how to make the font bigger - pretty please

you need to add another entry to Fonts.xml

GranCanaria Wrote:also I was playing with the rounded corners idea a bit and I think an end cap top and bottom would look nicer



would it be possible to insert 2 semi transparent graphics if I would know the place? (no problem in making them)

put the images in the media folder.
in Includes_Home.xml, replace the shadow-home-top.png and shadow-home-bottom.png
images with your new ones.

find and remove
<texture border="15">Button_Home_NoFocus.png</texture>
<texture border="15">Button_Home_Focus.png</texture>
<texture border="30,0,30,0">shadow-home-top.png</texture>
<texture border="30,0,30,0">shadow-home-bottom.png</texture>

and you get this


ronie, I read the font thingy and they are defined up to 35 and 80 but I still can not get the sizes to work.

GranCanaria Wrote:ronie, I read the font thingy and they are defined up to 35 and 80 but I still can not get the sizes to work.

can't help you any more than i already did i'm afraid.
my time is limited and although i don't mind giving a few pointers here and there, i'm not gonna spent a lot of time on peoples personalized mods.

read the wiki and keep on trying till you get it right. ;-)

No Problem!
you have been a great help, thanks a lot and sorry for taking up so much of your time.

here is my result on the 120" screen


and if you like to have it back to normal, just enable
"I hate transparency" and go to 80 or 100%

@GranCanaria, why don't you use the skin night?

if you want change font to be bigger, you should open font.xml and edit the right font. it depends which font you select in the transparency setting/appearance. this one you should edit in font.xml, there are i think 4 different font. arial normal and arial bigger, and the other one.

thanks I will try, and to the skins, I tried them all even the 2 alaska ones but transparency is just the most eye candy for the way I use xbmc

GranCanaria Wrote:thanks I will try, and to the skins, I tried them all even the 2 alaska ones but transparency is just the most eye candy for the way I use xbmc

I'll second that. Night is a bit wonky with my mouse (it doesn't work :shocked . But I do like the idea of a clean screen and I don't see text as buttons... now for the font.

well, i messed something up in the Includes_Home.xml

After starting over with the original backup things work the way I wanted them

I added in the Font.xml
<font>
<name>font-40c</name>
<filename>teen-caps.ttf</filename>
<size>40</size>
</font>

in the fonts folder i renamed teen-caps.ttf to teen-caps.ttf.org
and copied my favorite font arial rounded into the font folder and renamed it teen-caps.ttf

changed the size to 40 at the vertical setting

<visible>!Control.HasFocus(5040)</visible>
</control>
<control type="label">
<posx>118</posx>
<posy>0</posy>
<width>217</width>
<height>40</height>
<font>font-40c</font>
<textcolor>blue</textcolor>

and the horizontal setting
<visible>!Control.HasFocus(5040)</visible>
</control>
<control type="label">
<posy>1</posy>
<height>40</height>
<font>font-40c</font>
<textcolor>blue</textcolor>

at the skin settings home window menu I activated wide home menu buttons
and this is what it looks like now








thanks for the tips guys