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<blockquote data-quote="p13man" data-source="post: 378368" data-attributes="member: 84802"><p>Hi joz,</p><p></p><p></p><p>Wise words!</p><p></p><p>It's actually a double whammy because in addition to not being intuitive, information is often difficult to come by. For example, the skinners guides in the wiki often disappoint. Almost half of the possible controls or, more accurately their attributes, are either not defined, not completely defined or, worse, listed but link to pages which haven't been written yet. Also, there are attributes used in skin files that have no references whatever. One has to learn by trial and error, which I don't mind but it makes the research more difficult and time consuming than the actual coding and means that innovation happens more by reverse-engineering than by following the guides.</p><p></p><p>I understand that everyone works very hard and that their work is unpaid but I do sometimes wonder what kind of MP we would have if the documentation was given more priority. Once I have some more free time I will definitely offer my help with that.</p><p></p><p>Regarding the specifics in this thread, as I wrote above, the problem was partly resolved by the work Itfearme (I think) and others did for the latest version of MP TVSeries which meant that I could tweak that and put it where I wanted it.</p><p></p><p>Regarding rendered text, the most obvious solution is some kind of overlay graphic but it would need to constantly redraw itself every time the text was updated and I don't know how big an effect that would have on processing load. I think the ultimate solution is to implement layers in the skinning engine. Most graphic designers are familiar with the concept, it would help tremendously with animations and I don't think it would be difficult to implement - but I might be wrong.</p><p></p><p>On the positive side, I've been looking for an integrated media system for over two years and have tried all of the open source projects there are and I think that MP is by far the best purely because of the community and the forum which has many first-class, totally unselfish and 100% committed members. I aspire to join their ranks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="p13man, post: 378368, member: 84802"] Hi joz, Wise words! It's actually a double whammy because in addition to not being intuitive, information is often difficult to come by. For example, the skinners guides in the wiki often disappoint. Almost half of the possible controls or, more accurately their attributes, are either not defined, not completely defined or, worse, listed but link to pages which haven't been written yet. Also, there are attributes used in skin files that have no references whatever. One has to learn by trial and error, which I don't mind but it makes the research more difficult and time consuming than the actual coding and means that innovation happens more by reverse-engineering than by following the guides. I understand that everyone works very hard and that their work is unpaid but I do sometimes wonder what kind of MP we would have if the documentation was given more priority. Once I have some more free time I will definitely offer my help with that. Regarding the specifics in this thread, as I wrote above, the problem was partly resolved by the work Itfearme (I think) and others did for the latest version of MP TVSeries which meant that I could tweak that and put it where I wanted it. Regarding rendered text, the most obvious solution is some kind of overlay graphic but it would need to constantly redraw itself every time the text was updated and I don't know how big an effect that would have on processing load. I think the ultimate solution is to implement layers in the skinning engine. Most graphic designers are familiar with the concept, it would help tremendously with animations and I don't think it would be difficult to implement - but I might be wrong. On the positive side, I've been looking for an integrated media system for over two years and have tried all of the open source projects there are and I think that MP is by far the best purely because of the community and the forum which has many first-class, totally unselfish and 100% committed members. I aspire to join their ranks. [/QUOTE]
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