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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1302054" data-attributes="member: 141969">Recently I have been revising the EPG in my &quot;Clarity&quot; skin, and I have been investigating the colouring. As far as I understand it, there are effectively three colouring modes for the EPG:(1) Coloured genres.The programme cells are coloured with the appropriate genre colour.(2) Coloured buttons, but without coloured genres.The EPG cells are coloured with one of four colours: &quot;channel name&quot;, &quot;on earlier&quot;, &quot;on now&quot;, or &quot;on later&quot;.You define the colours to be used in &quot;SkinSettings.xml&quot;. The colours for &quot;on now&quot; and &quot;on later&quot; are the pair of colours defined by the &quot;defaultgenre&quot; entry in the skin-settings file. The &quot;channel name&quot; colour is &quot;guidecolorchannelbutton&quot;, and the &quot;on earlier&quot; colour is &quot;guidecolorprogramended&quot;. You can choose any colours that you want for these, remembering that the text is always white. All of these buttons use the same texture, which is plain white, with a separate gradient overlay texture that gives the convex &quot;3-D&quot; effect.(3) Self-coloured buttons.The EPG programme cells are coloured, but the colours cannot be changed easily. This is because the textures are self-coloured. This is the original way that colours were applied to the EPG, before support for genres was added. To change a button colour, you need to modify the texture file, and then remember to delete the skin's image cache before restarting MP. If you want the 3-D effect, you also have to apply the overlay to each button as you edit it.There are some unfortunate interactions between things in the EPG, which means that you cannot always get the result that you want. The easiest choice is (2) above, because you can change colours simply by modifying the skin-settings file. However, (2) is not implemented for the radio EPG. So if you want TV and radio EPGs to look similar, you have to use (3). I don't use (1) because the broadcast EPG in the UK does not provide sensible genres.For your delectation, here is my &quot;Clarity&quot;&nbsp; TV EPG (which uses choice (2) above); the buttons coloured green are programmes that are scheduled to record (I prefer the entire cell to be coloured, in addition to the red dots being suffixed to the programme name):[ATTACH]215930[/ATTACH]-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1302054, member: 141969"] Recently I have been revising the EPG in my "Clarity" skin, and I have been investigating the colouring. As far as I understand it, there are effectively three colouring modes for the EPG: (1) Coloured genres. The programme cells are coloured with the appropriate genre colour. (2) Coloured buttons, but [I]without[/I] coloured genres. The EPG cells are coloured with one of four colours: "channel name", "on earlier", "on now", or "on later". You define the colours to be used in "SkinSettings.xml". The colours for "on now" and "on later" are the pair of colours defined by the "defaultgenre" entry in the skin-settings file. The "channel name" colour is "guidecolorchannelbutton", and the "on earlier" colour is "guidecolorprogramended". You can choose any colours that you want for these, remembering that the text is always white. All of these buttons use the same texture, which is plain white, with a separate gradient overlay texture that gives the convex "3-D" effect. (3) Self-coloured buttons. The EPG programme cells are coloured, but the colours cannot be changed easily. This is because the textures are self-coloured. This is the original way that colours were applied to the EPG, before support for genres was added. To change a button colour, you need to modify the texture file, and then remember to delete the skin's image cache before restarting MP. If you want the 3-D effect, you also have to apply the overlay to each button as you edit it. There are some unfortunate interactions between things in the EPG, which means that you cannot always get the result that you want. The easiest choice is (2) above, because you can change colours simply by modifying the skin-settings file. However, (2) is not implemented for the radio EPG. So if you want TV and radio EPGs to look similar, you have to use (3). I don't use (1) because the broadcast EPG in the UK does not provide sensible genres. For your delectation, here is my "Clarity" TV EPG (which uses choice (2) above); the buttons coloured green are programmes that are scheduled to record (I prefer the entire cell to be coloured, in addition to the red dots being suffixed to the programme name): [ATTACH alt="clarity_tv_epg.png"]215930[/ATTACH] -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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