Feature Requests & Bug Reports (3 Viewers)

[cecet23]

I'd like matching skin files for the File Explrer plugin : MEDIAPORTAL - free media center - File Explorer and for mkmail : MEDIAPORTAL - free media center - MkMail

Thanks for your job..

 

[emphatic]

Ah, what the hell. MOCKUP TIME. It would be really cool if you could have a minimalistic view like this that somehow could be expanded to show more info. Like a hidden window (slide in animation?) that shows artist/album info. This way, you see almost the complete fanart, and then you have the info in an overlay with transparency.

Edit: Did you notice in my screen below that the label for "Playing now" isn't translated, but static, cul8er?

Emph

 

[cul8er]

Hi cecet23,

I have allready added support for File Explorer and it will be part of next release see attached screenshot. About the MkMail, I have no immediate plans to integrate it into the skin but perhaps in some future release.

best regards
cul8er

 

[cecet23]

Hi cecet23,

I have allready added support for File Explorer and it will be part of next release see attached screenshot. About the MkMail, I have no immediate plans to integrate it into the skin but perhaps in some future release.

best regards
cul8er

wow... thats a great news.. thanks a lot.. I'm waiting the next release..

 

[rivera]

Dear Cul8er, thanks a lot for a good job .

I wanna give you some small proposal.
In common.overlays.xml (and in other similar files) you are using dummy controls to distinguish audio overlay from video overlay.
In case of using "Album" tag we can make a mistake while playing WAV-files without tags.
In case of using "DIrector" tag we can make a mistake while playing video files which are not registered in DB (demos, clips etc).

So, you can use Player.HasAudio & Player.HasVideo in conditional visibility.

Although it is specified in MediaPortal Skin Manual that these conditions are not implemented yet (MediaPortal1_Development/SkinArchitecture/skin_conditional_visibility - MediaPortal Manual Documentation) but in my MP 1.1 beta it works fine.
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Also, I modded your MyMusicPlaylist a little .
Now it has a 4-state-opacity background.
The reason of this changeble opacity is that background fullscreen pics (fanart, nice wallpapers etc) are of different brightness etc.
And opacity level is changing every minute automatically.

	<control>
		<description>music overlay image</description>
		<type>image</type>
		<id>0</id>
		<posX>0</posX>
		<posY>0</posY>
		<width>1280</width>
		<height>720</height>
		<texture>music_playlist_bg (+thumb)-70.png</texture>
		<visible>string.contains(#time,:01:)|string.contains(#time,:07:)|string.contains(#time,:13:)|string.contains(#time,:19:)|string.contains(#time,:25:)|string.contains(#time,:31:)|string.contains(#time,:37:)|string.contains(#time,:43:)|string.contains(#time,:49:)|string.contains(#time,:55:)</visible>
	</control>
	<control>
		<description>music overlay image</description>
		<type>image</type>
		<id>0</id>
		<posX>0</posX>
		<posY>0</posY>
		<width>1280</width>
		<height>720</height>
		<texture>music_playlist_bg (+thumb)-75.png</texture>
		<visible>string.contains(#time,:02:)|string.contains(#time,:08:)|string.contains(#time,:14:)|string.contains(#time,:20:)|string.contains(#time,:26:)|string.contains(#time,:32:)|string.contains(#time,:38:)|string.contains(#time,:44:)|string.contains(#time,:50:)|string.contains(#time,:56:)</visible>
	</control>
	<control>
		<description>music overlay image</description>
		<type>image</type>
		<id>0</id>
		<posX>0</posX>
		<posY>0</posY>
		<width>1280</width>
		<height>720</height>
		<texture>music_playlist_bg (+thumb)-80.png</texture>
		<visible>string.contains(#time,:03:)|string.contains(#time,:09:)|string.contains(#time,:15:)|string.contains(#time,:21:)|string.contains(#time,:27:)|string.contains(#time,:33:)|string.contains(#time,:39:)|string.contains(#time,:45:)|string.contains(#time,:51:)|string.contains(#time,:57:)</visible>
	</control>
	<control>
		<description>music overlay image</description>
		<type>image</type>
		<id>0</id>
		<posX>0</posX>
		<posY>0</posY>
		<width>1280</width>
		<height>720</height>
		<texture>music_playlist_bg (+thumb)-85.png</texture>
		<visible>string.contains(#time,:04:)|string.contains(#time,:10:)|string.contains(#time,:16:)|string.contains(#time,:22:)|string.contains(#time,:28:)|string.contains(#time,:34:)|string.contains(#time,:40:)|string.contains(#time,:46:)|string.contains(#time,:52:)|string.contains(#time,:58:)</visible>
	</control>
	<control>
		<description>music overlay image</description>
		<type>image</type>
		<id>0</id>
		<posX>0</posX>
		<posY>0</posY>
		<width>1280</width>
		<height>720</height>
		<texture>music_playlist_bg (+thumb)-80.png</texture>
		<visible>string.contains(#time,:05:)|string.contains(#time,:11:)|string.contains(#time,:17:)|string.contains(#time,:23:)|string.contains(#time,:29:)|string.contains(#time,:35:)|string.contains(#time,:41:)|string.contains(#time,:47:)|string.contains(#time,:53:)|string.contains(#time,:59:)</visible>
	</control>
	<control>
		<description>music overlay image</description>
		<type>image</type>
		<id>0</id>
		<posX>0</posX>
		<posY>0</posY>
		<width>1280</width>
		<height>720</height>
		<texture>music_playlist_bg (+thumb)-75.png</texture>
		<visible>string.contains(#time,:06:)|string.contains(#time,:12:)|string.contains(#time,:18:)|string.contains(#time,:24:)|string.contains(#time,:30:)|string.contains(#time,:36:)|string.contains(#time,:42:)|string.contains(#time,:48:)|string.contains(#time,:54:)|string.contains(#time,:60:)</visible>
	</control>

If in your setup it is specified to display time string without seconds - remove second ":" from conditions.

P.S. Of course this feature looks very crazy and wastes some CPU & RAM resources .
But I see no delays in my config (Intel C2D E8400 + RAM 2Gb)

 

[rivera]

So, you can use Player.HasAudio & Player.HasVideo in conditional visibility

I must admit that in MP 1.0.2 these conditions DO NOT work .

If in your setup it is specified to display time string without seconds - remove second ":" from conditions

These conditions (string.contains) also will work only in MP 1.1

 

[cane]

I installed MyWorldmap plugin (from mpe1 archive - link) and for me search in x-factor doesn't work. When I click on search nothing happens, yet options work fine. Anybody have some clue about this?

 

[clanmackenzi]

Blank screen

If I touch my mouse all graphics and text disappears. It returns if I move the mouse to the top left corner of my screen or I hit a direction arrow on my remote. Is this a bug or have I missed a setting somewhere.

 

[rivera]

If I touch my mouse all graphics and text disappears. It returns if I move the mouse to the top left corner of my screen or I hit a direction arrow on my remote. Is this a bug or have I missed a setting somewhere.

It's very strange.
Do you observe the same behaviour with Blue3 skin?

 

[emphatic]

If I touch my mouse all graphics and text disappears. It returns if I move the mouse to the top left corner of my screen or I hit a direction arrow on my remote. Is this a bug or have I missed a setting somewhere.

This is a known bug in MediaPortal for mouse users in the skins that use MultiImage backgrounds. Don't use your mouse, and you'll be fine.

Emph