Background TV in EPG (1 Viewer)

wertzui

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    i want to develop a skin like the vista mce and came across this epg picture:
    http://www.mce-community.de/forum/i...5f47bc20d8a72fd&act=Attach&type=post&id=61145
    now i tried to reskin it with the tv in the background. but i was unable to do that.
    either i have the full tv on top of everythign else, or the epg with a black background.

    does anyone know how to do this?
     

    jawbroken

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    There have been very recent (as in, the past 24 hours or so) source updates that implement video layers, which sound like they would make what you want very easy. I am not sure if it is possible now, but it seems that it will be quite possible in the near future.
     

    Marcusb

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    It must be possible now. In the BlueTwo home screen (not sure about other skins) there is a button to make the TV picture the backgrond. You can then go to the TV guide with this effect in place. I would just investigate this buttons function. (it's the "square iconed" one up the top with the power buttons. It only works if there is a preview window of video running at the time)
     

    Ralph

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    Function was just addes to CVS:

    On 30/01/2006 [10:26:48] _Frodo_ added the following change: added option to view tvguide when watching fullscreen tv (choose TVGuide from context menu)


    Regards
    Ralph
     

    csberto

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    Ralph said:
    Function was just addes to CVS:

    On 30/01/2006 [10:26:48] _Frodo_ added the following change: added option to view tvguide when watching fullscreen tv (choose TVGuide from context menu)


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    Yes, but when choosing TVGuide from the context menu MP immediately exits completely.
     

    tklon

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    csberto said:
    Yes, but when choosing TVGuide from the context menu MP immediately exits completely.

    Same for me with mce skin. Probably because dialogTvGuide.xml is missing in the skin.

    error.log said:
    30.01.2006 20:59:59 SKIN: Missing skin\mce\dialogTvGuide.xml
    30.01.2006 21:00:00 exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. WindowPlugins at MediaPortal.GUI.TV.GUITvGuideBase.OnMessage(GUIMessage message)
    at MediaPortal.GUI.TV.GUITVGuideDialog.DoModal(Int32 dwParentId)
    at MediaPortal.GUI.TV.GUIFullScreenTV.ShowContextMenu()
    at MediaPortal.GUI.TV.GUIFullScreenTV.OnAction(Action action)
    at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindowManager.OnAction(Action action)
    at MediaPortalApp.OnAction(Action action)
    30.01.2006 21:00:00 MediaPortal stopped due 2 an exception exception occured MediaPortal at MediaPortalApp.OnAction(Action action)
    at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindowManager.DispatchThreadMessages()
    at MediaPortalApp.FrameMove()
    at MediaPortal.D3DApp.Application_Idle(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IMsoComponent.FDoIdle(Int32 grfidlef)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ComponentManager.System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IMsoComponentManager.FPushMessageLoop(Int32 dwComponentID, Int32 reason, Int32 pvLoopData)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoopInner(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoop(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context)
    at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(Form mainForm)
    at MediaPortalApp.Main()

    It works with BlueTwo. Looks very good.
     

    Ralph

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    When using the latest CVS I recommend to test the new features with BlueTwo or MCE Skin.
    Right now, only those skins will be up to date with the latest changes.

    Regards
    Ralph
     

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