Skinning for beginners - Foundation skin, skinning tools, and tips

**Jezz_X** · 2012-06-21 06:07

(2012-06-20 20:29)Agkel0s Wrote: First of all, thanks Hitcher.

I've been trying to create a simple skin for XBMC that would satisfy my needs, and Foundation skin has been quite helpfull...

But I've got a problem, and I don't know if it's skin related or not, and since I'm using Foundation for it's base, I guess this is the place to ask for help.
I'm trying to create a home screen, based on the Metro screen of `Black's xperience1080 skin, but I've got a problem displaying the weather info.
That happens because I need to open the Weather window (MyWeather.xml) in order to refresh all info (temperature, condition, everything), after that, the home screen also shows the correct info.

How can I force to collect weather data at skin startup? I noticed Foundation has the same behaviour, but, for example, xperience1080 shows the data at startup...

Thanks in advance for the help.

look here
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/cfab...61a82aa42d

hannahjo · 2012-10-15 17:15

In DialogAlbumInfo.xml there is this code
<control type="label">
<description>Rating</description>
<width>580</width>
<height>28</height>
<label>$INFO[ListItem.Rating,[COLOR blue]$LOCALIZE[563]:[/COLOR] ]</label>
<scroll>true</scroll>
<visible>!IsEmpty(ListItem.Rating)</visible>
</control>
but when you access album info it does not show ratings. Why would that be? As you can probably tell I'm a complete beginner at this and have no real clue as to what I'm doing except having fun

Hitcher · 2012-10-15 17:30

Probably because the album hasn't been scraped or no rating info was found.

hannahjo · 2012-10-15 18:36

Thanks for that scraped album and of course the rating appeared. Brilliant skin by the way. Don't suppose you know a way of creating a space where I can insert band member info on album info page?

Hitcher · 2012-10-15 21:04

Is that info scraped?

hannahjo · 2012-10-15 23:07

No, manually added via nfo. file

Hitcher · 2012-10-15 23:31

Then if XBMC doesn't have it in the database you can't display it.

hannahjo · 2012-10-16 12:05

Daft question but can it be put in xbmc's database?

**Martijn** · 2012-10-16 12:23

(2012-10-16 12:05)hannahjo Wrote: Daft question but can it be put in xbmc's database?

no there is no db field for that

hannahjo · 2012-10-16 13:01

Found a solution which is not exactly what I want but will do. Put info into <instruments></instruments>. At least this way I can see who played on the album.
Thanks for your info all who helped, it was much appreciated.

Hitcher Skilled Skinner Posts: 9,915 Joined: Aug 2007 Reputation: 67 Location: Eastleigh, UK	2012-10-15 17:30 Post: #103 Probably because the album hasn't been scraped or no rating info was found.
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hannahjo Junior Member Posts: 29 Joined: Dec 2010 Reputation: 0	2012-10-15 18:36 Post: #104 Thanks for that scraped album and of course the rating appeared. Brilliant skin by the way. Don't suppose you know a way of creating a space where I can insert band member info on album info page?
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Hitcher Skilled Skinner Posts: 9,915 Joined: Aug 2007 Reputation: 67 Location: Eastleigh, UK	2012-10-15 21:04 Post: #105 Is that info scraped?
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hannahjo Junior Member Posts: 29 Joined: Dec 2010 Reputation: 0	2012-10-15 23:07 Post: #106 No, manually added via nfo. file
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Hitcher Skilled Skinner Posts: 9,915 Joined: Aug 2007 Reputation: 67 Location: Eastleigh, UK	2012-10-15 23:31 Post: #107 Then if XBMC doesn't have it in the database you can't display it.
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hannahjo Junior Member Posts: 29 Joined: Dec 2010 Reputation: 0	2012-10-16 12:05 Post: #108 Daft question but can it be put in xbmc's database?
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hannahjo Junior Member Posts: 29 Joined: Dec 2010 Reputation: 0	2012-10-16 13:01 Post: #110 Found a solution which is not exactly what I want but will do. Put info into <instruments></instruments>. At least this way I can see who played on the album. Thanks for your info all who helped, it was much appreciated.
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