Blue Vision (4 Viewers)

[ge2301]

Play a movie for a short time (I did for 40 seconds) and stop the movie
Back on the browse page, move the mouse over different sections of listed moves
Randomly what appears to be Fanart takes over the screen

Problem is solved. It was as I expected.

 

[ge2301]

@osre
You're a great help I think the main menu is perfect now, means operation feels comfortable and is visually attractive.
Some menu entry shadows in the the DX11 version could be added, but nothing else to do from my point of view.

The next huge construction area would be:

• homescreen
  • Latest media, weather extract, news extract https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/new-skin-bluevision.129477/page-8#post-1125723
• tags for recently added media items. The LatestMedia feature from morpheus takes the last 5 mediaitems according to their importdate from importaspect into account https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/new-skin-bluevision.129477/page-26#post-1130025

For both I'd need help from a dev, because related to backend code
The question is, how far you can support for this?

 

[osre]

@osre
You're a great help I think the main menu is perfect now, means operation feels comfortable and is visually attractive.
Some menu entry shadows in the the DX11 version could be added, but nothing else to do from my point of view.

The next huge construction area would be:

• homescreen
  • Latest media, weather extract, news extract https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/new-skin-bluevision.129477/page-8#post-1125723
• tags for recently added media items. The LatestMedia feature from morpheus takes the last 5 mediaitems according to their importdate from importaspect into account https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/new-skin-bluevision.129477/page-26#post-1130025

For both I'd need help from a dev, because related to backend code
The question is, how far you can support for this?

If you ask for my experience on these topics: none.
If you ask for my time: If you have a specific problem, I can look into it. If someone points to other code that needs to be ported to your home screen, I can do that.
But I'm also behind schedule on the PackageManager. At least next weekend I want to focus on that again.

 

[ge2301]

Sure, I was expecting something in this direction. The PackageManager is also important and should be finished as well!
Most important for me would be to know, if a media item belongs to the top 5 recently added items. for this there is code from Morpheus in LatestMedia, but I don't know how to access it from xaml.

 

[morpheus_xx]

Let's start with "Current weather". It's used inside Titanium and uses the CurrentWeatherModel:

• https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...um/Skin/Titanium/screens/master_bare.xaml#L40
• https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...kin/Titanium/screens/master_bare.xaml#L56-L57
  
• https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...kin/Titanium/screens/master_bare.xaml#L68-L70

For "Latest Media" I've added a model and a "nested listview" (list of categories, sublist of items):

• https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...Skin/default/screens/LatestMedia.xaml#L25-L26
• https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...nts/Media/Models/LatestMediaModel.cs#L97-L113

For accessing a specific media category (like audio), I'd implement a kind of Converter which chooses the right sublist and either returns to full inner list or a specific item by index (I can support both).

 

[ge2301]

Let's start with "Current weather". It's used inside Titanium and uses the CurrentWeatherModel:

• https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...um/Skin/Titanium/screens/master_bare.xaml#L40
• https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...kin/Titanium/screens/master_bare.xaml#L56-L57
  
• https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...kin/Titanium/screens/master_bare.xaml#L68-L70

For "Latest Media" I've added a model and a "nested listview" (list of categories, sublist of items):

• https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...Skin/default/screens/LatestMedia.xaml#L25-L26
• https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...nts/Media/Models/LatestMediaModel.cs#L97-L113

For accessing a specific media category (like audio), I'd implement a kind of Converter which chooses the right sublist and either returns to full inner list or a specific item by index (I can support both).

Thanks, these information are already very helpful.
I already implemented "home" into the main menu and reserved an Guid-ID. Currently it's only an empty screen when selecting "home".
In case other group menu items are selected the main menu buttons are showing up in the middle area. When pressing "home" in the group menu directly the home screen should appear in the center. How can I make this happen? There should be a command when pressing the "home" button linking to the screen.

 

[morpheus_xx]

I already implemented "home" into the main menu and reserved an Guid-ID. Currently it's only an empty screen when selecting "home".

Not sure if the existing concept works for the "home" tab. The reason is that in other tabs the WorkflowActions are placed with a given size and position.

The contents for home tab are of different nature: they are not items from a list, but user-defined controls placed in arbitary position. Probably we need to hide (or overlay) the grouped list view in center area and show another panel there, which you can design as you like. And it should be only visible if you select "home" group.

 

[morpheus_xx]

@ge2301 I've seen that you have deleted the ApolloOne project/folder in your branch. This is bad, because once I merge the branch into Weekly it will delete ApolloOne also there, which is definitely not intended

I will rebase the branch upon dev again and will fixup the commits which are affecting ApolloOne.

 

[morpheus_xx]

I made the modifications and pushed the branch to new https://github.com/MediaPortal/MediaPortal-2/tree/FEAT_BlueVision_v4. Please continue using this branch. I will delete the former versions of the branch later this week.

 

[ge2301]

I overworked the mock-up for the home screen. Which one do you prefer?
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(2)
(3)
(4)

Or the previous one?
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/new-skin-bluevision.129477/page-8#post-1125723