blue3wide home screen icons (1 Viewer)

[oddfella]

i have recently installed mediaportal to be the heart of my hometheater-system. because i study to be a graphical designer i think that the graphical experience is as important as the features of the program. so i have made custom MePo style icons for the plugins on the home screen as there are no hover icons for the plugins except for the my tvseries-plugin.

what i now want to know is which xml-file i should edit to add icons for my youtube and svtplay plugins.

if it wouldnt be too much to ask for i would also like to change the name of the youtube plugin from myYoutube to plain YouTube

thanks in advance

/OddFella

 

[joz]

what i now want to know is which xml-file i should edit to add icons for my youtube and svtplay plugins.

can't help you with svtplay (don't have it, don't even know what it is) but can with youtube.
putting it in My Youtbes homescreen:
I believe you should edit "youtubeinfo.xml" or "youtubevideobase.xml". Not really sure which one (haven't done much yet for this plugin), I think both will work.

just add something like this

    <control>
      <description>hover</description>
      <type>image</type>
      <id>0</id>
      <posX>251</posX>
      <posY>575</posY>[COLOR="Red"] (position of the image)[/COLOR]
      <width>52</width>
      <height>52</height>
      <texture>hover.png</texture> [COLOR="Red"](located in media folder of skin, set the filename here)[/COLOR]
    </control>

Remember MP is lineair in overlaying. So putting this at the bottom of a file will make it on top of all other controls in that file.

p.s.
I'm really really interested in your hovers (creating a mod of Blue3 currently myself). There are missing so many (for all kinda plugins) and would like to have a couple more generic ones. It would be even more awesome if there were hovers for each plugin. So you don't have similair hovers for different plugins (which I do now in Blue3++, like the video hover used for My Films etc.)
I also really could use someone that nows something about design. I'm more of a programmer myself. So if you're up for being a critic or contribute in some way to my skin mod, please take a look here (it is specifically made for small 4:3 screens though)

 

[oddfella]

thanks for the reply, but it didn't work the way i wanted.

here is how my homescreen looks at the moment


and here is how i want it to be


maybe this explains my intentions better

 

[joz]

yep. this is real easy. No editing then!

MP picks up the hovers this way (automatically):
- It looks in the media folder of the skin used.
- the filename of the hover is looked up this way "hover_" + pluginname + ".png"
- so for example My Explorer has a hover called "hover_my explorer.png" (some plugins are called "my" + pluginname, some others are just pluginname, try experimenting a bit )

that should work.
Interested in sharing your work? It be great if I could include your hovers with Blue3++. I'll create a wiki page for contributors of the skin to say thanks!
I'm quite a critic though. The hover (which is probably a work in progress) still needs some adjustments I think to have it look awesome (for example the pole of the flag seems kinda weird hanging of the hand of the MP fellow. He's not really holding it)

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p.s.
Do not forgot to clear the cache when you have changed an image. Or MP won't pick up on the change

 

[oddfella]

Thank you, it worked!!:

I have not made many hovers yet. (just one actually)
But if you tell me what you need i might try to help you

 

[joz]

Sure

My goal is to have hovers for every plugin. I'll make a list. But if you think it's too much work (can understand, there are a lot of plugins) then a few would be great too.
I'll make a list of plugins that have no specific hover yet.

 

[oddfella]

Great!! PM me when you are done

PS: do you know how to change the name that the homescreen shows for the plugin? as the above screenshots show my youtube plugin is called "myYouTube" i would like it to be just "YouTube". again for the help before

 

[explodedk]

u should be able to just change the label from the window id code to YouTube... else in the mp conf under skins there is a checkbox where you can define if it should set My infront...

 

[oddfella]

tried both, didn't work

 

[joz]

The list of plugins with no hovers for blue3(wide):

- My Lyrics
- My Films (I use the videos one for this)
- Moving Pictures (I use the videos one for this)
- Media Slayer (I use the burner one for this)
- Music Trivia
- MTV Music Videos
- Global Search
- My uTorrent
- SysInfo
- Smart Playlist
- My Showtimes
- Traffic (doesn't work for me with 1.0 final though)
- Youtube.fm
- Yahoo Music Videos
- TV Gemist
- Outlook Mail
- My Speedfan
- My Explorer
- MVids
- My Emulators
- Online Videos (I use the videos one for this)
- My Trailers (I use the videos one for this)

So that's quite a list If you need info 'bout any of them plugins, look here (the left sidebar)

As you can see I already started using other hovers (mostly videos one) for other plugins just to show something. Maybe these could be a bit customized for each plugin showing the plugin title in some fancy way.
I can imagine that you don't wanna do all of them but sharing any that I'm missing that you did would already be great!

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Regarding your own question I have no experience with this ut I thought the way to go was as explodeddk describes.
You did try to edit the language file right? the one sitting in "MPInstallDir/language/strings_en.xml" (or whatever language file you use strings_nl.xml for me for example)