Focus - a new skin in work (port from XBMC) (2 Viewers)

[ajp8164]

Not sure yet (about the remote shortcuts), but I will make sure that the appropriate events are available to bind to the buttons - will just be using the command/event mapping that MP provides, so, nothing too fancy (at least from an implementation perspective).

I just wanted to say that I appreciate all the new features you hopefully can add to MediaPortal

Such a small thing as being able to scroll from bottom to top in the EPG is just sweet, I can't believe this has not been fixed before!

Do you plan to add the Red - Green - Yellow - Blue buttons to all of your screens? They are used in other apps such as DVBViewer and I think they are really useful as shortcuts. At least for remote control users

 

[ajp8164]

I use the schedules direct plug in. The program information contains the string "(HDTV)" if the program is broadcast in HD. I have modified TvGuideBase.cs to search for this string and display the icon if it exists. The string is actually user definable via an MP setting (mytv, hdtvProgramText) -- but it only looks at the program description. If there are alternative methods to determine whether or not a program is HD I could add those checks to the code. The implementation does not depend on how the program information gets into the tv database (SD plugin, xmltv, etc) since I am looking at the data coming out of the tv database.

I decided not to use For The Record since I do not have access to the source code and I would like the opportunity to make changes ;-)

TVGuide looks awesome, very grateful for your work. Can I ask how you got the HD pin to show? Are you using information provided by DVB EPG or meta-data within XMLTV?

By using 'For the Record' and an XMLTV grabber I have been able to produce the same thing within the EPG, I'll attach a screenshot below later...

 

[mortstar]

Ahhh, this is exactly how am I am doing it currently, via a little bastardisation of For the Record. My XMLTV grabber has the string '(HD)' in the program description for any HD program.

I have subverted For the Record's 'Suggestion' feature to make it work. I have a Suggestion rule in For the Record that scans the description for the string '(HD)' and I substituted the normal icon for a suggested program for a HD pin and voila an EPG with HD Pin

I need a better HD Pin, my gfx skills are not high

 

[Dragy]

Nice Is this still being developped? The skin engine changes are present in 1.1 RC3 (aren't they?)

 

[JacobJust]

Hi Andy

Did this skin die because of youre other work - or is it still being worked on.

I just tried SVN26226 and i see that youre changes require some skin changes to make skins work correct.

Would be nice to see "Focus" beeing finished to show off youre work on the new skinning features

Thanks

 

[Klez]

Skin looks nice and its very clean (i love clean skins and don't like too much graphic-shit...).
But what is THAT?

Half of the screen is unused while the Info-Text font on the left side is too small...

 

[ajp8164]

Hi all,

I've stopped working on this skin, at least for now. Got a million things going on and struggling to just keep up with supporting the skin engine changes right now. If anyone would like to carry on with the development of this skin (based on the XBMC Focus skin) I'll be happy to share the source online. One of the "issues" of this skin is that it requires a plugin to support it since I basically override some of the built-in plugins to be able to make use of some of the new controls I have written (e.g., spin button, check button). Others have commented that distribution of a plugin with a skin is a problem but I don't see the problem if you like the capabilities of the skin (of course the plugin binaries need to be kept compiled against new releases).

The tv guide is based on a concept I found from someone else's work. The idea is that the guide is fairly minimal and that it appears over the live tv in the background (that's why there is so much unused real-estate). Since XBMC Focus had no tv guide I thought this went well with the theme of the skin.

Any takers ;-)

 

[Guzzi]

AW: Focus - a new skin in work (port from XBMC)

Hi Andy,
why don't you commit the extensions to MePo - instead of delivering them as plugin, that is more difficult to maintain? That way all skins could use them - like coverflow, that was committed and is now going to be supported by the skinners...

 

[DieBagger]

Re: AW: Focus - a new skin in work (port from XBMC)

Hi Andy,
why don't you commit the extensions to MePo - instead of delivering them as plugin, that is more difficult to maintain? That way all skins could use them - like coverflow, that was committed and is now going to be supported by the skinners...

He already commited them and they are in the MediaPortal source. But plugins also have to be updated to make use of these controls.

 

[Klez]

The tv guide is based on a concept I found from someone else's work. The idea is that the guide is fairly minimal and that it appears over the live tv in the background (that's why there is so much unused real-estate). Since XBMC Focus had no tv guide I thought this went well with the theme of the skin.

OK, but if someone decides to press the EPG-button on his remote, then i think 90% of users want to see a complete EPG primarily and not TV. Actually i can see the overview for 5 channels only. For me this is a lack of usability.