Help with TVSeries.xml - watched vs. unwatched (1 Viewer)

[jlr2000]

Wondering if someone can help me out....I made changes to the TVSeries.xml file to get MP 1.0.1 to display my watched/unwatched shows with colors like before. I made changes per an earlier thread and had some success - The colors are correct for watched/unwatched however now when an item is selected (highlighted green) no text is visible whatsoever. I'm using the BlueWide3 skin. Can someone more knowledgable in xml have a look at my file and suggest where I went wrong?

Thanks in advance.

 

[jlr2000]

Should this be moved to the "Skin" Forum? Sorry for the dumb question, don't want to double post and thinking from the lack of response that may get a response...

Please advise.
Thanks.

 

[marvenius]

well, you can always take the original xml file and see where things might have gone wrong.

 

[apoptygma]

Okay I just spend 3 hours fixing this myself

Under the heading
in TVseries.xml

make these changes

<control>
<description>Text List (Episode No. + Name for epsiode) (Season No.)</description>

change

<!-- Text -->
<downloadColor>ffffffff</downloadColor>
<!-- not watched color (normal) -->
<remoteColor>FFa6c3e1</remoteColor>
<!-- watched color -->
<textcolor>FF6E7B83</textcolor>
<!-- local file not present color -->
<textcolor2>ffffffff</textcolor2>
<!-- local file not present colorcolumn 2-->
<textcolor3>ffffffff</textcolor3>
<!-- local file not present color column 3-->

The two numbers in bold are where you set the colors. The first is the 'watched' and the second the 'not available' color

User Hexadecimal Color Chart, Web Safe Colors to pick yourself a color

or use the two I've listed there.

the first two letters are the transparency levels. Always set it to FF or you'll lose the text when you highlight the episode

so for bright red you'd use FF0000 and precede it with the FF for transpearancy so you'd change the entry to FFFF0000

Just drag the sliders around on that page I linked to choose a nice color then replace the # in the RGB value with FF

also If you want to get rid of the horrible icons that have been introduced delete

tvseries_WatchedNA.png
tvseries_Watched.png
tvseries_UnWatchedNA.png
tvseries_UnWatched.png

from C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\Blue3\Media

You may want to leave

tvseries_SeriesListIcon.png and tvseries_SeasonListIcon.png as the number of 'unwatched' episodes on the series or season view might look odd without them

Here's what mine looks like now. Much nicer IMHO

Before



After

 

[jlr2000]

I just was coming in to this thread to link it to the other thread with this info and you beat me to it!

THANKS!