aMPed 3.2 - mega-aMPed for MP 1.1.x! (4 Viewers)

[briegel]

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Hi Dadeo,

it's me again.
I just made a test with a new notebook and Win7 pro 64 bit.
I installed MP1.1.2.0 , aMPed, no TV server, pure audio. That's all.
No musicfiles etc. aMPed as 12pt-version.
Empty musicfolders a1...a8; b1...b9 and c1, c2.

I have the same bug as described:
When i adress the first element of the last line in shares view (small thumbs) the focus jumps to the "back" icon.
This happens with both, the Blue3 and aMPed skin. Here it's the "c1" thumb.

In my opinion it's a general MP-bug.

 

[Dadeo]

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Hi Briegel - you have done an awesome job of narrowing it down. But I don't know how you will manage to submit a bug report! Nothing in log files, and not every user can reproduce it. BTW you should try it without PureAudio, just in case (although I cannot see how or why PureAudio should affect the sms input on Icons, but you never know!)

BTW I don't know if you saw yet, but your issue regarding duration of a CD has been resolved and will be fixed in 1.2.0 beta.

 

[briegel]

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BTW you should try it without PureAudio, just in case (although I cannot see how or why PureAudio should affect the sms input on Icons, but you never know!)

BTW I don't know if you saw yet, but your issue regarding duration of a CD has been resolved and will be fixed in 1.2.0 beta.

Hi Dadeo,

thanks for the information regarding the duration of a CD. It's nice to hear. But: The bug is fixed in a new version and that's the problem with a bugfree software. Whenever new functionality is added to a software it will be buggy. So old bugs are fixed but new bugs are implemented. That is what i observe since two years in the MP-Project. Instead of creating a stable and bugfree Version MP is permanently under "reconstruction". On the other hand the MP Team does a really great job, for sure.

My permanent issu:
I disabled pure audio, my lyrics and the fanart handler. It has no influence on the effect.
It's hard to understand that you cannot reproduce this effect. Today my son showed me that this effect also exists on his PC (Win7 home) Blue3 wide, MP1.1.0.0.
So i have 5 different machines showing this effect.

I think i will try to report this and make an extensive description. I can reproduce this effect in 100% of my testcases. It must be someone out there who can also reproduce this effect.

Thanks for all your help!

 

[Dadeo]

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That is what i observe since two years in the MP-Project. Instead of creating a stable and bugfree Version MP is permanently under "reconstruction". On the other hand the MP Team does a really great job, for sure.

Ok Briegel I have to reply to that Please tell me any software that is not like that because I would like to use it!!! IMO Every version of Windows (and almost every other software app) has the same issue - some things fixed, other bugs crop up - features I love are gone and stupid ones added. And M$ has billions of dollars and a huge team to do all that.

Perhaps MediaPortal is too ambitious - trying to support so many devices, configurations and also allow almost total customization. But I have to admire the pure nerve and guts that our Team has to even attempt all that they do!

 

[briegel]

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Hi Dadeo,

I just wanted to write a bugreport regarding the "small icons problem".
I started MP in Debug mode to create a logfile. Than PM starts the blue3 - 16/9 - skin.

Next step was to adress the first element in the last line. And: Everything works fine.
Then i selected blue3 - 4/3 - skin an found my problem again.
So it is only in the 3/4 mode present.

Have you also tested in 4/3 mode?

 

[Dadeo]

Re: aMPed 3.2 - mega-aMPed!

Yes I tested both 16x9 and 4x3 - but mostly 4x3

 

[Bruce Benner]

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Hi Bruce
First, you can view the Wiki Skin Architecture page which has a short section about text colors. Normally most skins use the Hex format #AARRGGBB where the AA or first two characters specify the level of transparency of the color.

• 1+4 are defined in common.time.xml for most screens, except BasicHome which is in BasicHome.xml and varies for revaMPed and Classic Basic Home screens.
• 3 is the header.label defined in common.window.bars.xml
• 2 is a bit difficult - in most cases it is defined in the Title styles in references.xml (don't forget to do the ones in the fonts sub-folders or you will overwrite your changes if you switch fonts, themes or screen sizes). If you change all the different Title styles that should take care of most cases.
• 5 is not text, it is a graphic called Action_nofocus.png You could tint it with a <colorDiffuse> tag, but you would have to do that in a lot of xmls. It might be easier to just change the image file.
• 6 is the #itemcount - in most cases it is also defined in common.window.bars.xml - but many plugins require special controls for it, so there are actually 35 xmls in aMPed which define it - mostly plugins.

The tag you are looking for in every control you identified (except the Action Menu image) is <textcolor>.

As I said, next version of aMPed I plan to use a new feature in 1.2.0 (if it works!) to define all text colors in references.xml. So then you can change them throughout the skin easily.

Can you post a screenshot when you are done? I would love to see how it looks.

Hi, it's not finished yet but here are a few impressions.

 

[Dadeo]

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Hey Bruce - Really Cool! I like it a lot.

I find the dark red text a bit hard to read, but that could be from different monitors/screenshot/or many other reasons. You could always add some lighter shade for shadow text to highlight some of the text if you wish.

In any case, you also inspired me to try and include a Theme Editor in aMPed 3.3! Then you can change many colors, overlays, backdrop sets, to get entirely different effects.

Anyway nice to see you enjoying the possibilities!

 

[Bruce Benner]

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thank you thank you, I'm looking forward to version 3.3. With the shade you're right, I'll try to change that.

 

[Dadeo]

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Just to let you know I added a new thread about aMPed Supported Plugins/Versions.

There I will keep track of any new versions of plugins which work in aMPed 3.2, even if no skin changes are required, so you know which plugins are 'safe' to update using aMPed.