jhsrennie Wrote:I must admit I'm astonished that anyone cares whether the splash image is scaled to the screen or not. Still, I suppose the user is always right :-)
People have been asking for this for a couple years now... I know, I was one of them!
For me, it all goes to enhance the entire feel of XBMC from start to finish. I have two dedicated HTPCs in my home, and another two on my and my Wife's laptops. The dedicated systems boot into XBMC, and nothing looks better than a nicely customized full screen splash, complete with custom music sound, and then to pop into a nice, clean skin, with my own personal tweaks.
jhsrennie Wrote:jmarshall has suggested I add this to the trunk XBMC code (though we need to talk about this) and if this is done then it will be supported in future releases, though probably not in 10.1 as that is feature frozen. If it doesn't get into the trunk code I'd be happy to provide a custom build once a year or whenever a new release of XBMC comes out.
I will be here yearly, if so!
Just a question, recognizing that once compiled, the EXE is closed, would it be possible to put a 'choice' in for people who don't want the full screen splash? I thought we could integrate this into an XML so that you could have a 0/1 lineitem, which, in turn, would change which block of code would be used... I'm not certain, but the EXE
should be able to read a variable from an external source, shouldn't it?