Change size of album song list. (2 Viewers)

[geichel]

Hallo,
yesterday I played around with the aMPed skin for MediaPortal 1.2.x. The only thing I can say is I LIKE IT
I am using a 16:9 widescreen tv. The only problem I have is in Music view screen. The playlist (which displays song names)
is to small. I wanted to increase its width. But I did not find out in which xml file I can change its properties.
So here is my question: Which xml file I have to edit to change the width of the playlist?
Thanx
gerrit

 

[TLD]

You can go into the aMPedConfig (short cut should have been made on your desktop when you installed aMPed) click the "layouts" tab and adjust the "list width" there.

 

[Dadeo]

Hi geichel -
You have a couple options for wider lists:

1. As TLD said you can just widen the list - however if you use fanart layout it overlaps the fanart and does not look so great. So if you want wider lists, you can use the Wide fanart List layout option in aMPed Config and make all your lists much wider.
2. If you ONLY want to make Music Lists wider, then you can select Wide fanart view and use Big Icons List layout - I redesigned it to give you wide lists especially in Music where you often need them (the same option applies to any window/plugin that supports Big Icons List, like Recorded TV, and a few plugins)

I plan to provide even more layout options in aMPed 3.4 - and make the big icons lists work nicely in fanart list layout as well.

You can find all the diff options, and how to use them in the aMPed Wiki - Choosing Your Options

Glad you like aMPed - enjoy - and don't forget to rate/review in the Downloads Repository

 

[geichel]

Hallo,
thanks for your hints It seems to be just to easy, and I was searching xml files in skin folder for the whole evening.
Regards,
gerrit

 

[Dadeo]

Yeah geichel, I know the experience of hunting through xmls and pulling my hair out

Since you are interested, the list widths are set in references.xml - which is basically a default settings file for skin controls. So the main list width is set in the default list control. However, many skin xmls reference a separate file for the facade layouts. In the case of music, it uses common.facade.music.xml (in mymusicgenres.xml you find an import control for common.facade.music.xml). So you could always just add a <width> tag to the list control there.

You will notice in aMPed the list control in common.facade.music.xml does not have a width tag - in MP if the tag does not exist it falls back to the default settings in references.xml. That is how aMPed adjusts for screen/font sizes - there is a different references.xml in the Fonts folder for each screen/font size with different default settings (or in many cases styles). So in the main skin xmls aMPed contains very little - instead it uses global settings in references.xml. So if you set a list width/tag in common.facade.music.xml, it would override the list width settings you can select in aMPed Config but then you would get the same list width in music no matter what screen/font size you select and you lose the options.

My ultimate goal for aMPed is to make it as 'user-definable' as possible without needing to edit xmls. I plan to add a theme editor and layout selection in aMped 3.4 - if I can find the time! There are always so many updates in MP and plugins it is almost a full time job keeping up, let alone developing new skin features. But I keep trying to add a bit more each version.

 

[geichel]

Hallo,
thanx for your explanation. While looking at the xml files, I figured out the "common.facade.music.xml" you mentioned.
But I did not have the time to give it a try. I am familar with xml, style sheets, C# and the MediaPortal code and configuration. But until now I avoided to look to deep into MP skinning. Again, thanx for your explanation and keep up the good work
Regards,
gerrit