TV Guide... Overlapping/Looping channel listing

[ozbutcher]

Hi,

First... what a great program!! I was having huge problems with MCE with my Dual Tuners... Media Portal has been perfect!!

My query is about the TV guide. I have 7 tv channels showing and because the guide loops I've got one of them looping at the bottom.

Is there a way to cleanup the tv guide display so that it doesnt show the same channel twice on one screen?

[Taipan]

Originally Posted by ozbutcher

Is there a way to cleanup the tv guide display so that it doesnt show the same channel twice on one screen?

Yes, there is a way, but you have to edit the skin files to display the correct number of channels. Here are some instructions that Boilermaker gave me that work fine:-

Look for this code in the tvguide.xml file, and play with the values marked below...I just used trial and error to get a nice fit.

<control> 
<description>Channel template</description> 
<type>image</type> 
<id>20</id> 
<posX>60</posX> 
<posY>125</posY> 
<width>136</width> 
<height>36</height> <-----[change this to like 40 to start, and see what happens, keep raising it til you get a good fit] 
</control> 
<control> 
<description>Channel image template</description> 
<type>image</type> 
<id>7</id> 
<posX>1</posX> 
<posY>1</posY> 
<width>32</width> <---[change this to fit better] 
<height>32</height> <---[change this to fit better] 
<keepaspectratio>yes</keepaspectratio> 
<centered>yes</centered> 
<zoom>no</zoom> 
<texture>defaultVideoBig.png</texture> 
</control>

at some point you will make the height in the channel template just high enough that only 5 will display, then take it back one...if you end up with an unbearably large and ugly gap to your bottom scroll bar, here is where to change it:

<control> 
<description>Horizontal scrollbar</description> 
<type>hscrollbar</type> 
<id>28</id> 
<posX>196</posX> 
<posY>481</posY> <--[change the y position til looks good, remember how much you moved it up] 
<width>1002</width> 
<height>20</height> 
<visible>yes</visible> 
</control> 
you need to remember how much it moved, because you need to reduce the size of the scrollbar on the right by the same amount 
<control> 
<description>Vertical scrollbar</description> 
<type>vscrollbar</type> 
<id>29</id> 
<posX>1200</posX> 
<posY>125</posY> 
<width>20</width> 
<height>357</height> <---[reduce the height to match above] 
<visible>yes</visible> 
</control>

HTH... :?

[t8]

ah, excellent - works brilliantly for me

Thanks for the tip!

.t8