About the X-Factor Skin (R479) (11 Viewers)

[erikture]

Ok!

But previously when running MediaPortal 1.0.2 on Vista x64 I did get my own menuitems in both upper and lowercase letters, as I have written them in the menu configuration editor. But now on Windows 7 and Mediaportal 1.1 everything is in uppercase.

/Erik

 

[cul8er]

Hi erikture,

That must have been a problem with your old installation on Vista because the x-factor skin has always used the same upper case fonts.

best regards
cul8er

 

[Olli0815]

As soon as you are install the given X-Factor Font you will get Upper Case - otherwise skin use "other" fonts

 

[Flippinga]

I have attatched to screenshots. On from my Windows/Fonts directory and on on Mediaportal.
As I can understand I have three Fluid fonts installed but the on named Fluid Medium is not used as it contains the non upper case letters.

/Erik

Hi,

Please post fullscreen screenshot of basic home.
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/502049-post9.html

Flip

 

[nhoffman82]

Hello, I had a question and a potential bug. I am using Windows XP, mediaportal 1.02, moving pictures 1.0 beta 2, and the R479 version. First the bug:

When attempting to use the FanArt plugin for the basichome screen for menu items, or when attempting to set it to a multiimage directory, it fails on both accounts. When trying to set the imagepath it to a multiimage directory it gives me an error stating that I can't have periods in the pathname, which I do because I installed over another Windows installation (so its C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.Windows\Application Data...). I'm guessing the FanArt setting does not work for the same reason. Not sure if this is intentional or if there's nothing short I can do than re-installing windows into the default directories.

For my question, I am interested in displaying multiple images on the BasicHome screen when nothing is selected (i.e. when MediaPortal first starts). I like having the background image transition to relevant backgrounds when cycling through the menus, but would like some random images of landscapes, etc. to be cycled by default whenever MP starts or the Basic Home screen is accessed. I'm sure this will take some inputting of code into BasicHome.xml, but wasn't sure the best way to go about it. Perhaps setting the RSS Ticker as the default focused control, and placing all the landscape background images in a folder assigned to the RSS ticker. Or perhaps creating a dummy control that has the default focus until something is pressed? Not sure if this is possible, but would love input on any ideas, I hope I'm being clear about what I'm looking to do. Of course using the FanArt handler plugin to cycle these images would be preferable.

Thanks for the help!

Nick

 

[cul8er]

Hi nhoffman82,

Thank you for your report. You have found a bug and I think I have corrected it but have a hard time testing. The attached file should be extracted into the /plugins/process directory and you should overwrite the existing xfactor.dll.

Please let me know if it works.

best regards
cul8er

 

[nhoffman82]

Thanks for the quick response. I tested it out and the multi-image setting does work now even if it points to a path that includes periods. However, the FanArt Handler plugin is still not working for me, i have TV series backdrops (in the fanart\original folder) and MovingPictures backdrops, but they still don't show when I select them for menu items in the menu editor. It's good to be able to use the multimage for now, but I would love to get the fanart handler working so my memory doesn't take such a hit especially if I try to work in those landscape pictures. Thanks for all of your hard work, I designed my own skin for a while but abandoned it when I saw xfactor, it's a great skin.

While I'm at it, I also wanted to ask about the Genre view in MP-TVSeries. Here is a screen shot on mine:

It seems like it is tied to the facade view that is used when displaying episodes but obviously doesn't look right for navigating genres. I was wondering if there was a way to define different parameters of genre view that would work independently of the common facade view of episodes. Ideally, it would be nice to have the genre categories on the left at the same level as the list of episodes, as well as including genre icons similar to whats used on moving pictures. Not sure if this is possible, seems to me like a limitation of the mp-tvseries programming and not the code, but I would appreciate your thoughts on this as I have way too many tv series to sift through when viewing all of them at once.

Ehh sorry I can't figure out how to upload images here, but I hope you get what I'm talking about.

 

[montecristo]

hi,

i have a problem with my movies.
when i start mp in the basichome menu and i click on "movies" the screen goes blank and 2 seconds later i'm back on the same screen.
i just can't access my movies.
but when i start in the other menu i have no problem to access my movies.

any idea what the problem might be?

ps: i want to enlarge the radar image. i can do this myself. but where can i enlarge the other weather images like rainfall, wind, etc images?

montecristo

 

[rekenaar]

Hi montecristo

Maybe you do not have Moving Pictures installed? If so, you can use the basichome menu editor to change the link from MovingPictures to MyVideos.

 

[montecristo]

hi,

i have one problem left.
i don't see any fan art in my video's.
it is working in movingpictures but i don't use this.
i copied all the fan art for my movies to the movies folder in the skin folder.
but i don't see any fan art, it only shows the default background.
as for the music fan art, this is working ( with the help of fan art handler)

before i had it working in another skin but there there was folder called fan art inside the media folder belonging to the skin i used.
so i copied all the png files to the movies folder.

anybody has any idea what the problem might be?


montecristo