BlueTwo Skin - Need Help Editing (1 Viewer)

[xphoenix1]

Hi,

I'm using MP 1.0 RC2 & TV Server 1.0 RC2.

I was really hoping someone could point me in the right direction in terms of editing a skin.

Out of all the skins I have tried I prefer the default skin BlueTwo, it just seems to display better (has everything sized bigger and layout correctly) on my screen, especially when watching My TV.

There is only one thing I fault the BlueTwo skin on, and that is that in My Movies, when displaying items in List Layout and Title View, it doesn't display the cover art, as it does on other skins such as Monochome 2.

I have attached several screen shots so you can see what I'm talking about.

BlueTwo_pic1.jpg shows the My Movies screen, and as you can see there is a left hand menu bar. When a movie is selected it doesn't show the cover art.

Monochrome_pic1.jpg shows the My Movies screen, and again there is a left hand menu bar. BUT, when a movie is selected it DOES show the cover art, as seen in Monochrome_pic2.jpg.


Can anyone HELP me with directions to edit the BlueTwo skin so that I can display the cover art in List View?

 

[Sambal]

The file you need to alter is myvideo.xml

The following part (copied from indigo) is responsible for showing the cover art.

    <control>
      <type>image</type>
      <id>1</id>
      <posX>16</posX>
      <posY>184</posY>
      <width>276</width>
      <height>408</height>
      <texture>movie_preview_thumb_background.png</texture>
      <visible>control.hasthumb(204)+facadeview.list</visible>
    </control>
    <control>
      <id>204</id>
      <type>image</type>
      <posX>30</posX>
      <posY>198</posY>
      <width>245</width>
      <height>373</height>
      <texture>#selectedthumb</texture>
      <visible>facadeview.list</visible>
    </control>

Just play around with size and placement to get the results you like. You can also use animations to hide the menu to make place for the cover art. See monochrome myvideo.xml for pointers on this.

If you need more help just let me know.

 

[xphoenix1]

Hi Sambal,

Thank you very much for the reply. It helped me a lot.

I entered the script you posted into the myvideo.xml, but at first nothing changed. When I changed the View to display Shares, then I saw the cover art displayed. Since I mainly set the View to display Titles, I discovered that I needed to edit the myvideotitles.xml.

I also looked up the monochrome skin's xml files as you suggested and I worked out how to add an animation and hide the left hand side menu when cover art is displayed, and then how to hide the cover art once the side menu is selected. I noticed that the way they they are hiding the cover art once the side menu is selected is by introducing a background png that covers the cover art. There is probably a cleaner way to hide the cover art, but this way works so its fine.