Error in default skin using 0.2.0.0 RC1 onwards? (1 Viewer)

[tklon]

Solution for bug 560 found...

I found the problem which causes bug 560.

Summary 0000560: some texts are rendered "dirty" (home screen)
Description Noticed : 30.07.05
Skin : b2
Language: English
Description :
1) Launch MP
=> Watch the button-texts of the home-buttons closely,
some have "dirty pixels" ("my Plugins" / "myPrograms")

Additional Information Also noticed in other screens (like the "Lorem ipsum" dummy text in the scroll-settings screen
=> guess it's a bug in the rendering code

The character of the fonts are written to a png file in the fonts folder of each skin. Problem is that on some places the characters are to close to the next character. The space between the characters need to be increased.

The file mediaportal/mediaportal/Core/guilib/GUIFont.cs causes the behavior. The problem occured whit the changes between version 1.35 and 1.36 of that file.
Timestamp of the change: version 1.36, Thu Jul 21 10:53:50 2005 UTC

Have a look here:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/mediaportal/mediaportal/Core/guilib/GUIFont.cs?r1=1.35&r2=1.36

Increasing spacingPerChar from 1 to 2 fixes the problem for me.

So could a dev please change the line:

spacingPerChar=1;
to
spacingPerChar=2;

Thank you!!! :lol:

 

[Spragleknas]

HOOORAY!!!!!

Looking forward to this fix!!!

 

[tklon]

HOOORAY!!!!!

Looking forward to this fix!!!

I just talked to dman_LFC and he anwered: i will try it first also then apply to cvs

So it should be fixed soon.

 

[tklon]

The fix was applied to cvs. Please try mediaportal-cvs-01-13-2006--01-03.rar or newer.

On 12/01/2006 [22:44:13] dman_LFC added the following change: Mantis 560 bug fix from tklon

To make it work you need to delete the fonts folder in all skins:

C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\BlueTwo\fonts
C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\mce\fonts
C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\MetalMedia\fonts
C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\Project X\fonts

Also in the other skins you use. MP will create these files new on the next startup.

 

[Spragleknas]

Yes.
Yes!
YES!

 

[csberto]

The fix was applied to cvs. Please try mediaportal-cvs-01-13-2006--01-03.rar or newer.

On 12/01/2006 [22:44:13] dman_LFC added the following change: Mantis 560 bug fix from tklon

To make it work you need to delete the fonts folder in all skins:

C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\BlueTwo\fonts
C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\mce\fonts
C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\MetalMedia\fonts
C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\Project X\fonts

Also in the other skins you use. MP will create these files new on the next startup.

Do you mean the fonts.xml file in all skinfolders? There are no fonts folders.

 

[jawbroken]

There very much is a fonts folder under each of the skins. They get created automatically when MediaPortal is started, I believe.

 

[csberto]

There very much is a fonts folder under each of the skins. They get created automatically when MediaPortal is started, I believe.

I don't have fonts folders under each of the skins. There only are the folders 'Media' and 'Sounds'. In the rootfolder of each skin there is a file called fonts.xml

 

[jawbroken]

You will only have them on skins you have actually used (that is, told MediaPortal to use them in the Configuration then started up MediaPortal with the new skin), but they should be there.

 

[csberto]

You will only have them on skins you have actually used (that is, told MediaPortal to use them in the Configuration then started up MediaPortal with the new skin), but they should be there.

You're right. I only use ProjectX skin and there is a folder Fonts for that skin.