MediaStream by pilehave - upd. 22/08/09 (3 Viewers)

[joz]

I guess that bit of XML is used for when you've selected a serie.
Then it will show an image that belongs to that serie.
The bit you adjusted is for the home screen (where you select a serie) which normally doesn't have fanart

 

[stormbringer]

Stormbringer: It was a bug, and he has fixed it now. Go create a new menu!

But first remove all that xml stuff..

I created a new menu - but with that mp didn´t start right.The menu isn´t displayed - it is in the background. I guess theres a
fault in it.I took back my old xml and everything is good (except Topbar / weather)

 

[Raytestrak]

I just installed RC4 and now MediaStream does something funny. Whenever I go back to the main menu, i see the background of my startup highlighted menu item, then it disappears and I briefly see another background image and then the screen goes black. I see the buttons on top and the menu bar, but without text. When I press up or down on my remote the text and images appear again. Does anybode experience the same thing?

 

[pilehave]

I just installed RC4 and now MediaStream does something funny. Whenever I go back to the main menu, i see the background of my startup highlighted menu item, then it disappears and I briefly see another background image and then the screen goes black. I see the buttons on top and the menu bar, but without text. When I press up or down on my remote the text and images appear again. Does anybode experience the same thing?

Wow...gotta test that RC4

I'll se if I can get the same error.


UPDATE

New MediaStream.dll available BTW: View attachment 29637

This one allows you to set the default screen to something else than ID 90001. Still a small "problem", if you select the topmenu on the home-screen, ID 90001 will focus when you leave it.

I'll work on getting the plugin to overrule this so the ID selected is the one entered in the plugin-setup

Oh, and this version of the plugin doesn't make an error-entry in the log

 

[joz]

Nice work again

did you see my post on page 19? Dunno if this is something you recognize. The images I'm talking about are probably the same images which you can see as a small thumb in the list control of for example My Videos in Blue3 skin.

I'm still working on the skins bits I posted earlier (speedfan, uTorrent etc.)
I noticed something which I'm really clueless about of how to fix it.
The original skin files of uTorrent rely on common.facade.video.xml for the facadeviews. I wanted more control and decided to create my own facadeview and remove the import. All works fine, except for one thing (which also doesn't work with the default import).
There are supposed to be icons indicating whether the torrent is downloading or some other state. These don't show. They were not included in the skin pack so I copy pasted them from Aeon Wide, cleared the cache but still no luck. This does work in Aeon Wide.
Do you know how I could fix this?

 

[pilehave]

Nice work again

did you see my post on page 19? Dunno if this is something you recognize. The images I'm talking about are probably the same images which you can see as a small thumb in the list control of for example My Videos in Blue3 skin.

I'm still working on the skins bits I posted earlier (speedfan, uTorrent etc.)
I noticed something which I'm really clueless about of how to fix it.
The original skin files of uTorrent rely on common.facade.video.xml for the facadeviews. I wanted more control and decided to create my own facadeview and remove the import. All works fine, except for one thing (which also doesn't work with the default import).
There are supposed to be icons indicating whether the torrent is downloading or some other state. These don't show. They were not included in the skin pack so I copy pasted them from Aeon Wide, cleared the cache but still no luck. This does work in Aeon Wide.
Do you know how I could fix this?

Could I see a screenshot of the problem? In normal listview the icons are removed, this is done in references.xml, but you can always get them back by defining the listcontrol yourself.

In references.xml you'll see this:

<IconXOff>-2000</IconXOff>
    <IconYOff>20</IconYOff

The value "-2000" moves the icons off the screen, change this to 0 to see what effect it has.

Or you could edit myutorrents.xml and change

<type>listcontrol</type>

to

<type>listcontrol</type><IconXOff>0</IconXOff>
    <IconYOff>20</IconYOff

 

[joz]

Thanks that's what I ment and did the trick. You know I'm really not that familiar with the MP skin engine so this sort of thing is really new to me. Everything I know is just stuff I picked up in the forums, common sense and my background as a mobile/web developer...
I'll update the program skins asap.

One more thing.

I just upgraded to RC4 and now I get 2 issues I didn't have before;
- The home menu shows "missing or invalid myHome.xml" even though the menu and everything else is perfectly fine. I'll try with default file and report back.
- When I go to extra menu and back the menu is out of focus (it seems to behave like that with every other window too)

Edit:
Just tested with default myhome.xml and still the same error message...

edit2:
Just checked the logs. Found errors.
The first two I expect to be caused by the newest MyEmulators release.
The last one is caused by MyWorldMap. This one I already have since ages in my error.log (also reported about this in the proper thread, no solution for now). I'll try disabling. First (RC3 + latest SVN) this showed up as a different log enty though and didn't give such noticable errors in MP

2008-11-28 23:38:25.968750 [ERROR][MPMain]: SQLiteClient: query returned CONSTRAINT INSERT INTO Info VALUES('version',2.5)
2008-11-28 23:38:25.968750 [ERROR][MPMain]: SQLiteClient: cmd:sqlite3_finalize err:CONSTRAINT detailed:column name is not unique query:INSERT INTO Info VALUES('version',2.5)
2008-11-28 23:38:28.109375 [ERROR][MPMain]: exception loading window C:\Program Files\MediaPortal\Skin\MediaStream\myHome.xml err:Kan een gedeelte van het pad C:\Program Files\MediaPortal\Language\MyWorldmap niet vinden.

bij System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
bij System.IO.Directory.InternalGetFileDirectoryNames(String path, String userPathOriginal, String searchPattern, Boolean includeFiles, Boolean includeDirs, SearchOption searchOption)
bij System.IO.DirectoryInfo.GetFiles(String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption)
bij System.IO.DirectoryInfo.GetFiles(String searchPattern)
bij MediaPortal.Localisation.LocalisationProvider.GetAvailableLangauges()
bij MediaPortal.Localisation.LocalisationProvider..ctor(String systemDirectory, String userDirectory, String cultureName, Boolean prefix)
bij MediaPortal.Localisation.LocalisationProvider..ctor(String directory, String cultureName, Boolean prefix)
bij MyWorldmap.GUILocalizeStrings.Load(String language)
bij MyWorldmap.GUILocalizeStrings.Get(Int32 dwCode)
bij MyWorldmap.PlugInBase.GetHome(String& strButtonText, String& strButtonImage, String& strButtonImageFocus, String& strPictureImage)
bij MediaPortal.GUI.Home.GUIHome.LoadButtonNames()
bij MediaPortal.GUI.Home.GUIHomeBaseWindow.OnWindowLoaded()
bij MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindow.LoadSkin()

Edit3:
The MyWorldmap version I use (RC2 I believe) crashes MP config...
I renamed the dll and now the error message is gone so I'm glad to report it's not your skinning

The Menu Focus problem still remains though
(I already did download the newest process plugin, tried the old one = same result)

Edit 4:
Well now I'm at it anyways:

I noticed when I was browsing my music collection that the filmstrip view seems not right to me. The first obvious thing I noticed is that I totally have to rely on the images cause there's nothing shown about the selected item (artist + album would be nice!). Besides that there's so much space unused... Maybe I'll hack something together myself

Edit5:
I could go on a while talking bout this great skin

I was thinking maybe creating a horizontally based TVSeries view(instead of vertical I have done on page 18). This way only 3 or 4 series banners will fit on the screen at each particular moment but will allow a lot of room for fanart!
For people not having that much series it could make sense (which I'm part of I guess)
It would be awesome if I somehow could show half a banner with some gradient over it (because there's probably room for 3,5 banner or something, don't know yet just wild guess). But I guess the MP skin engine will not allow me to do so.
This idea could also really improve the vertical skin I made for tvseries. Something similair to the effect the home menu has with a really focused item in the middle and maybe less focused further away? gradient overlay may do the trick?
But as sad, I'm not really into skinning just know some basics. I know MP skin engine is kinda lineair so I don't know if it will allow a overlay on top of a listcontrol.
Time for some experimenting (or pilehave giving me good tips )

 

[Raytestrak]

I just installed RC4 and now MediaStream does something funny. Whenever I go back to the main menu, i see the background of my startup highlighted menu item, then it disappears and I briefly see another background image and then the screen goes black. I see the buttons on top and the menu bar, but without text. When I press up or down on my remote the text and images appear again. Does anybode experience the same thing?

Wow...gotta test that RC4

I'll se if I can get the same error.


UPDATE

New MediaStream.dll available BTW: View attachment 29637

This one allows you to set the default screen to something else than ID 90001. Still a small "problem", if you select the topmenu on the home-screen, ID 90001 will focus when you leave it.

I'll work on getting the plugin to overrule this so the ID selected is the one entered in the plugin-setup

Oh, and this version of the plugin doesn't make an error-entry in the log

And how do you find out which id you want? I Installed the latest version of the skin and I still have the disappearing menu after returning to the main menu. Should I make a new MyHome.xml? I saw you've added slurm's TVseries.xml, personally I think you should have kept the posters instead of the banners in the season selection screen like slurm's. Any chance on that 4th row of banners? I'd do it myself, but I think i'd learn japanese faster than xml

 

[joz]

Ehm Raytestrak (I constantly childishly smile when I read that name ), xml is easy, seriously.
Especially for people that have some knowledge of html, which is basically one and the same.

It's all about hierarchy and easy enough to learn. It's being willing to learn is what it's actually all about...
Such as open up a file... see tags like posx (hmm that might be some coordinate?) and just play with that, see what happens.
There's a great skin refresh plugin out there (MyRefresh or something?) which makes things easier to test.

And how do you find out which id you want?

The id of every plugin is listed at the top of the xml that belongs to that particular plugin...

 

[BrownGhost]

I just installed RC4 and now MediaStream does something funny. Whenever I go back to the main menu, i see the background of my startup highlighted menu item, then it disappears and I briefly see another background image and then the screen goes black. I see the buttons on top and the menu bar, but without text. When I press up or down on my remote the text and images appear again. Does anybode experience the same thing?

.. Sorry my bad found what i was looking for