Blue Vision (5 Viewers)

[morpheus_xx]

While we are on topic:

I have installed the latest BlueVision (v5) version on my HTPC. It has some issues:

1. It hangs on "home" panel. I think this could be a bug in SkinEngine, I get warnings ("mask" is already defined) and probably a dead lock in BindingsExtensions (where I've added locking before). This is a dev topic.
2. For my personal taste the auto selection of tab panel by mouse hover/focus is quite annoying. I.e. if there is a error indicator in top right corner, you often cross the tab menu and change the selection. I know other users might see it otherwise, so I'd suggest an option in settings to enable/disable the auto selection. If disabled, a click is required (like in ApolloOne).

What do you @ge2301 and @osre think about this idea?

 

[morpheus_xx]

Today I'm also creating the BlueVision specific NEWS skin.

Before I forget: in rebase process I have moved the "weather" related screens and styles under BlueVision plugin folder. I know I recommended to put them into weather plugin, but as long as there are no other hard dependencies (converters, custom controls etc.), we should keep skin files in BlueVision plugin folder.
Both ways have their advantages and disadvantages...

 

[ge2301]

I have installed the latest BlueVision (v5) version on my HTPC. It has some issues:

1. It hangs on "home" panel. I think this could be a bug in SkinEngine, I get warnings ("mask" is already defined) and probably a dead lock in BindingsExtensions (where I've added locking before). This is a dev topic.
2. For my personal taste the auto selection of tab panel by mouse hover/focus is quite annoying. I.e. if there is a error indicator in top right corner, you often cross the tab menu and change the selection. I know other users might see it otherwise, so I'd suggest an option in settings to enable/disable the auto selection. If disabled, a click is required (like in ApolloOne).

What do you @ge2301 and @osre think about this idea?

1. Others also reported this. I could cause a freeze only once so far, even I was rotating with my mouse like crazy for minutes. I think I was lucky Would be of course great, if this could be fixed anyway.
2. Fully agree. I'd prefer a settings button for the skin in the settings home screen. Over there it can be selected as you proposed. Also home screen can be switched of, grid style can be defined for videos, ...

 

[ge2301]

Before I forget: in rebase process I have moved the "weather" related screens and styles under BlueVision plugin folder. I know I recommended to put them into weather plugin, but as long as there are no other hard dependencies (converters, custom controls etc.), we should keep skin files in BlueVision plugin folder.
Both ways have their advantages and disadvantages...

Ok, will do the same for news plugin

 

[Lehmden]

• It hangs on "home" panel.

I had this often too, so I removed Home completely by editing the "MediaPortal.UiComponents.BlueVision.Settings.MenuSettings.xml" And even if home did not hang, it takes "ages" before the screen is loaded so no fun using it... (I'm running MP2 on a Haswell Core i5, so there has to be "enough" power...)

• For my personal taste the auto selection of tab panel by mouse hover/focus is quite annoying.

I also did not like this. It's even more annoying when you're navigating with remote. Every screen needs to be loaded if you want to navigate from somewhere to the SystemStateMenu button as example. This completely "kills" the fluid feeling MP2 GUI normally has. And probably the deactivation of this can help improving the issue with leaving a section by accident as it happens way too often now...

 

[morpheus_xx]

Added a second setter "ItemContainerStyle" and adding a to OV comparable code behind made MP2 fall back to standard skin.

What's the error message in log?

How can I switch to the framed focus button?

A generic approach would be to make the ButtonWideStyle the one with framed focus. If I understand correctly, there are two different main styles: one for media items and one for all others.

So the choice is probably designing the more generic one first (ButtonStyle, ButtonWideStyle), so it applies to all buttons as default. And then use custom styles only in the places you like to make looking differently.

 

[ge2301]

When changing it to below code, the screen is empty. No error log, client log is attached

  <!-- ListView style for all news feeds -->
  <Style x:Key="NewsFeedsContainerStyle" BasedOn="{ThemeResource MediaItemButtonCoverStyle}">
    <Setter Property="ItemTemplate" Value="{ThemeResource NewsFeedDataTemplate}" />
  </Style>

 

[osre]

While we are on topic:

I have installed the latest BlueVision (v5) version on my HTPC. It has some issues:

1. It hangs on "home" panel. I think this could be a bug in SkinEngine, I get warnings ("mask" is already defined) and probably a dead lock in BindingsExtensions (where I've added locking before). This is a dev topic.
2. For my personal taste the auto selection of tab panel by mouse hover/focus is quite annoying. I.e. if there is a error indicator in top right corner, you often cross the tab menu and change the selection. I know other users might see it otherwise, so I'd suggest an option in settings to enable/disable the auto selection. If disabled, a click is required (like in ApolloOne).

What do you @ge2301 and @osre think about this idea?

2. Yes, allowing to disable autoselect is a good idea I think.

 

[ge2301]

I could get the focus frame button, but the style remains in listview and not gridview mode ...
If somebody wants to try, attached the draft files. Need just to be extracted to the skin folder in "news".

Here the problem:


I'm done for today

 

[ge2301]

@morpheus_xx , @osre
if you find some minutes, could you take a look on this. I tried about 4 hours in last days to fix the issue from above screenshot, I can not make it work Once the problem is fixed I can easily complete the skin.