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[GetWell]

Hello

I'm a new developer starting my first plugin

Lets see how far I can get

The idea of this plugin is that you can thoose witch skin you would like to have en a periode.

F.eks. I would personal like the x-mas skin i december

I know it takes 2 sek to change it manual, but hey you have to start somewhere!!


But i'm allready running in to trouble...

I have tryed to ask in the IRC-channel, but nobody answers

There fore ill try here
(I'm searching a developer I can PM to when I have problems... is that you?? )

My problem right now is that i can't get MP to change skin from my plugin... Are there some where in the code an method to do this allready??

Right now I manual search the skin directory to see witch skins are installed... Again are there some where in the code an method to do this allready??

 

[Bram]

It's possible to change the skin from the configuration interface. So that's where you'll probebely find the code you need.

 

[moiristo]

      // Set the skin to the selected skin and reload GUI
      GUIGraphicsContext.Skin = btnSkin.SelectedLabel;
      SaveSettings();
      GUITextureManager.Clear();
      GUITextureManager.Init();
      GUIFontManager.LoadFonts(GUIGraphicsContext.Skin + @"\fonts.xml");
      GUIFontManager.InitializeDeviceObjects();
      GUIControlFactory.ClearReferences();
      GUIControlFactory.LoadReferences(GUIGraphicsContext.Skin + @"\references.xml");
      using (MediaPortal.Profile.Settings xmlreader = new MediaPortal.Profile.Settings(Config.GetFile(Config.Dir.Config, "MediaPortal.xml")))
      {
        xmlreader.SetValue("general", "skinobsoletecount", 0);
        bool autosize = xmlreader.GetValueAsBool("general", "autosize", true);
        if (autosize && !GUIGraphicsContext.Fullscreen)
          Form.ActiveForm.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(GUIGraphicsContext.SkinSize.Width, GUIGraphicsContext.SkinSize.Height);
      }
      GUIWindowManager.OnResize();
      GUIWindowManager.ActivateWindow(GetID);
      GUIControl.FocusControl(GetID, btnSkin.GetID);

This is the code from the configuration screen...

 

[GetWell]

I can change skin now (almost)

Thanks Moiristo!

The most of it works now

I can't get this line to work:

Form.ActiveForm.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(GUIGraphicsContext.SkinSize.Width, GUIGraphicsContext.SkinSize.Height);

I think its an reference missing? But I can't find out witch one.

I found another problem..
Is it posible to make just one skin xml file for my plugin??
When I switch from BlueTwo to X-mas fore example, its says that my pluginskin does not exists in the x-mas skin directory.

public override bool Init()
{
   return Load(GUIGraphicsContext.Skin+@"\AutoSkin.xml");
}

I tryed to change it to:

public override bool Init()
{
   return Load(Config.GetSubFolder(Config.Dir.Plugins, "windows") + @"\AutoSkin.xml");}

but it didn't work

 

[moiristo]

The reference is just 'System.Windows.Forms'.

public override bool Init() { return Load(Config.GetSubFolder(Config.Dir.Plugins, "windows") + @"\AutoSkin.xml");}

I think that this should work...maybe Config.GetSubFolder returns the path with a trailing slash so the line ends with ...\\AutoSkin.xml?

 

[GetWell]

...

I have reference til 'System.Windows.Forms'...

I get this error:
Error 2 The type or namespace name 'Size' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Drawing' (are you missing an assembly reference?) \Class1.cs 146 63 AutoSkin


regarding to the AutoSkin.xml i can see in the code that its hardcoded in MP... Look at this code (from the GUIWindow.cs line 457):

 _windowXmlFileName = GUIGraphicsContext.Skin + _windowXmlFileName.Substring(_windowXmlFileName.LastIndexOf("\\"));

So it doesn't matter witch folder i select it vil go to the current skin...
But okay then its easyer to make a skin to 4:3 and 16:9