MediaPortalEditor - New BETA Release Avaiable (1 Viewer)

hamheed

Portal Member
September 14, 2004
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Toronto, Canada
Hello,

Over the past 8 weeks, 30 or so Skin and Plugin developers have helped test out the MediaPortalEditor. I wanted to thank everyone for the valuable feedback that I have received so far, but keep the comments, suggestions, bug reports, and feature requests coming.

I have just finished bundling up the latest version, and sent it out to everyone that have provided me with an email address and who have expressed interest in testing out the tool. If you didn't receive the new release and would like to play with it, please Personal Message me with an email address that can accept a 600 K ZIP file that contains an executable. If you are going to test out the tool, please remember, that there will be bugs, so save your work freqently!!!

In any case, here are my next planned steps.

1. Continue fixing bugs as reported by the testers out there.
2. Get the code ready to be checked into the source system, so that I don't have distribute builds using email, and everyone can start using the tool.
3. Make sure the tool is compatiable with the 1.3 release
4. Work with MP developers to setup a couple of forum groups so that we can start discussing bugs and features on the forum more effectively.

Hope the tool is helpful!

Talk to you soon!
 

cibilo

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April 20, 2005
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Genoa (ITA)
Skin editor test

hi, i'm trying the new beta skin editor and at the moment I want to make some modification on the screen "home.xml". I have tried for example to change the color of the date and the hour in orange but once saved all and i run MP the colors returns to the default.
sorry for my english
 

Smirnuff

Portal Pro
December 7, 2004
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United Kingdom
make sure you delete the packed graphics from your skin directory

Bear in mind that this step is only necessary when you make changes to an image(s).

Also, not that it makes much difference but, the only file you must delete is packedgfx.xml, if that file is not present then MP goes about recreating it and the relevant packed textures.

Cheers,
Smirnoff.
 

cibilo

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April 20, 2005
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Genoa (ITA)
ok. I have tried to cancel the 2 files packed_.png and the packedtextures.xml but nothing. :(

this is a section of home.xml file created by the editor:
Code:
<control>
         <type>label</type>
         <description>Date</description>
         <id>200</id>
         <posX>270</posX>
         <posY>160</posY>
         <label>#date</label>
         <align>right</align>
      </control>
      <control>
         <type>label</type>
         <description>Time</description>
         <id>201</id>
         <posX>270</posX>
         <posY>192</posY>
         <label>#time</label>
         <align>right</align>
      </control>

and this is the same section of the original home.xml:
Code:
<control>
		<description>Date</description>
		<type>label</type>
		<id>200</id>
		<posX>270</posX>
		<posY>235</posY>
		<label>#date</label>
		<align>right</align>
		<font>font13</font>
		<textcolor>ffa9d0f7</textcolor>
	</control>
	<control>
		<description>Time</description>
		<type>label</type>
		<id>201</id>
		<posX>270</posX>
		<posY>260</posY>
		<label>#time</label>
		<align>right</align>
		<font>font13</font>
		<textcolor>FFFFFFFF</textcolor>
	</control>

the font and textcolor tags are missing.
 

hamheed

Portal Member
September 14, 2004
35
0
Toronto, Canada
Well,

Right now I would only add tags to the home.xml file if the values for these tags are different then the values in the references.xml file. For example, if the value for textcolor for labels is set to #ffffffff in the references.xml file, and your label inside home.xml has the same value, then I omit the textcolor tag. However, if what you are telling me is that you are specify a different color in the home.xml file for this label, then this is a bug :)))

Ill take a look tonight when I get home form work....
 

Frodo

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  • April 22, 2004
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    hamheed i would like to test your skineditor
    I send you an email but somehow i didnt receive a response
    pls send a copy of the skineditor to erwin_beckers@hotmail.com

    BTW, thx for all your hard work. This is getting very nice!

    Regards

    Frodo
     

    Frodo

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    Oh and if you like (not sure)
    i can give you access to the developers cvs to check in the sources
    of the skineditor

    just let me know:)

    regards

    Frodo
     

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