Christmas Theme (2 Viewers)

[milhouse]

Just got done myself trying to follow dcope's instructions. Here's what I did (no guarantees...)

1) download last year's Christmas theme from here
2) copy skins/BlueTwo, and rename the copy to "XMas"
3) delete the skin/Xmas/Media and skin/Xmas/Sounds folders
4) from the old Christmas theme downloaded above, copy into skin\XMas:
- The Media folder
- The Sounds folder
- references.xml (overwrite the existing one) - edit the version in the file as dcope mentioned
- MyHome.xml (overwrite the existing one)
- mytvguide.xml (overwrite the existing one)

That seems to be enough to get it working. Note this is about 120 seconds of testing is all!



---Edit--

For those of you looking for a working widescreen version of this, do the same as above - skipping mytvguide.xml - but starting with a copy of BlueTwo Wide for the base. A few extra lines need to be edited, though.

File myHome.xml
Look for the menu section - starts with
<control>
<description>Menu</description>
<type>menu</type>

And set the hover values like this:

<hoverX>100</hoverX>
<hoverY>200</hoverY>
<hoverWidth>230</hoverWidth>
<hoverHeight>225</hoverHeight>


And so the topbar doesn't look stretched, copy the whole TOPBAR section from BlueTwo Wide into myHome.xml, overwriting the existing TOPBAR section.

(or, just use the attached myHome.xml for widescreen)

As above, I would consider this "good enough", but not perfect by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[Darre]

If you got the WS version working could you zip and attach it please? I don't have time to fix this myself in a couple of days so it would be great if someone could just do the job for me

 

[jcm]

http://mediaportal.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mediaportal/trunk/MediaPortal Skins/Xmas 2007/

 

[GetWell]

jcm is that the real version?

 

[rtv]

Seems like everything gets noticed here

 

[solis66]

http://mediaportal.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mediaportal/trunk/MediaPortal Skins/Xmas 2007/

How do I get it down?

Via SVN I get error:
Error
* PROPFIND request failed on '/viewvc/mediaportal/trunk/MediaPortal%20Skins/Xmas%202007'
PROPFIND of '/viewvc/mediaportal/trunk/MediaPortal%20Skins/Xmas%202007': 301 Moved (http://mediaportal.svn.sourceforge.net)

 

[Harley]

Sorry

Hi all,

i must say sorry here, i don´t can find the time to do the skin finished. We have so many todo at the moment with mp2 and i have only limited freetime besides my normal work.

I can upload the skin in the state i have do at the moment, it works all, but in many screens the fontcolours must be changed, because of the snowbackground. White on white is not good readable.
I have also create a dancing santa claus for it. Its also inside.


I can upload the stuff i have do, if someone will help on changing the fontcolours to get it running.

Greetings Harley

..sorry again

 

[rsparey]

potentilly you could use something like dreamweaver to open all the xml files in the skin directory, serach for one font colour and change it for another..... but I guess it would all depend on if you wanted to do a global change or not.... I Hope someone finds the time to finish the Christmas Skin....

 

[jburnette]

Couldn't the font colors just be set one time in references.xml?

 

[dcope]

ill attach the version i have working, when i get home, about a couple of hours if anyone wants it. not quite as much change as mil house did, just edit reference and pasted mytv xml's but its been stable and WAF has been excelent.