Recently I have been tweaking the "DefaultWide" skin to make it more to my liking. During this, I have noticed that animations do not seem to work correctly. Now I did have a problem trying to get the "rotate" animation to work in the TV and radio guides, but after re-reading the Wiki and trying different tag mark-up, I eventually stumbled upon the mark up that gave the desired result. So I am not convinced that there is/are bugs in the skin engine -- it seems more likely that I have not yet found the correct tag mark up to produce the result that I want.
I tried both the "slide" animation, and the "fade" animation, and both have "quirks". To make it easier to see what was happening, I changed the background for the left side-bar menu to mid grey, and slowed down the slide action so that it took 5 seconds. I then took the following screen shots:
(1) Panel before initiating the slide action.
(2) Panel while the slide-on action is in progress.
(3) Panel after the slide-on action has completed (side menu fully on screen).
(4) Panel while the slide-off action is in progress.
Screen shot (2) (slide on) shows that the sliding menu lies on top of the list of items and their channel icons. This is the outcome that I would expect. The screen shot that does not look right is screen shot (4) (slide-off), which shows that the list of items resides on top of the sliding menu.
Is this an undocumented restriction in the skin engine, or is my tag mark-up incorrect? I can post a relevant XML extract if that would help. Thanks.
-- from CyberSimian in the UK
I tried both the "slide" animation, and the "fade" animation, and both have "quirks". To make it easier to see what was happening, I changed the background for the left side-bar menu to mid grey, and slowed down the slide action so that it took 5 seconds. I then took the following screen shots:
(1) Panel before initiating the slide action.
(2) Panel while the slide-on action is in progress.
(3) Panel after the slide-on action has completed (side menu fully on screen).
(4) Panel while the slide-off action is in progress.
Screen shot (2) (slide on) shows that the sliding menu lies on top of the list of items and their channel icons. This is the outcome that I would expect. The screen shot that does not look right is screen shot (4) (slide-off), which shows that the list of items resides on top of the sliding menu.
Is this an undocumented restriction in the skin engine, or is my tag mark-up incorrect? I can post a relevant XML extract if that would help. Thanks.
-- from CyberSimian in the UK