Changing Themes Can Cause Mediaportal to black out 2/3rd's of screen (1 Viewer)

[kiwijunglist]

haha, but we are talking about a theme

 

[elliottmc]

haha, but we are talking about a theme

Yes, but the skin overall cannot work with 1.3 and 1.4, so the theme cannot.

In principle, if the theme only changes a few things, and doesn't include any files with toggleButton/checkButton then it could work with both. I guess in that case you could distribute different versions of the skin theme.

However, looking at your theme, I think the chance of a single installer working for 1.3 and 1.4 is very remote.

 

[kiwijunglist]

Offtopic: I see what you mean, however I don't create any new code that uses toggle or checkbutton so my theme installs correctly for both versions of MP...
if you have 1.3 it uses togglebutton if you have 1.4 it uses checkbutton

Still I don't know what has causes this halfscreen problem, however I have been able to modify my theme so it doesn't trigger the issue anymore.

 

[elliottmc]

Offtopic: I see what you mean, however I don't create any new code that uses toggle or checkbutton so my theme installs correctly for both versions of MP...
if you have 1.3 it uses togglebutton if you have 1.4 it uses checkbutton

Still I don't know what has causes this halfscreen problem, however I have been able to modify my theme so it doesn't trigger the issue anymore.

But you have copies of the existing skin files with the colours changed. If you have ones that are compatible with 1.3.0, they will have togglebutton in them, so they won't work with 1.4.0. If you have the ones with toggleButton removed, then some buttons where the code in 1.3.0 explicitly expects a toggleButton, then it won't work with 1.3.0.

 

[kiwijunglist]

I don't have any copies,

I just use what ever already exists in the user's Titan folder, which is already appropriate for the MP version that they are running[DOUBLEPOST=1370167148][/DOUBLEPOST]Advantage is that I don't have to update my theme if Titan get's updated, and if the user has any of their own tweaks in the titan main folder they get incorporated into my theme

 

[elliottmc]

I don't have any copies,

I just use what ever already exists in the user's Titan folder, which is already appropriate for the MP version that they are running[DOUBLEPOST=1370167148][/DOUBLEPOST]Advantage is that I don't have to update my theme if Titan get's updated, and if the user has any of their own tweaks in the titan main folder they get incorporated into my theme

So you mean your installer makes copies/changes to the files from what is already on the user's system?

 

[kiwijunglist]

My installer copies all the titan's xml files to a temp location
then changes the colour codes in all the files
discards any xml files that don't have colour codes *
creates a new theme folder
copies the modified xml files into the theme folder
copies my own images into the theme folder
copies a couple of additional xml files that i made into the theme folder
deletes skin cache

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* new installer only, which fixes the half screen bug.

 

[kiwijunglist]

so yeah that's why it's compatible with 1.3 AND 1.4

 

[elliottmc]

so yeah that's why it's compatible with 1.3 AND 1.4

Yeah, obviously something is triggering the problem, since I cannot reproduce it unless I have installed your theme.

 

[kiwijunglist]

Yeah and using install buggy theme.bat (attached on first page) you can show it can be trigged by the original titan xml files merely existing in the theme folder, I just don't know which one(s).