Monochrome (for those who like dark skins), updated... (4 Viewers)

[Psycho Reptile]

My Films layout seems messed up - in Icons and Big Icons layout, it still has the description box on the right, except no description populates. I'd assume that the intent should be to not have the description box. I think it defeats the purpose of the big icon / icon layouts - you can't see enough movies.

Also, the Big Icon List layout in Music doesn't show the preview thumbnail on the left.

Unfortunately MyFilms does not seem to have the functionality to allow more flexible skinning. ie: I can't move description etc based on the current facadeview.
Big Icon List thumbnail is fixed for next release.

Anyways thanks for all your work Psycho - cant wait for the MPI.

I've tried to create an MPI, but as far as I'm concerned it's just way to complicated for skin installation. So for now only rar files will be released.

Can you please post the background, and the side menu background! I too think dark is too dark, would like some color but not too much. Thanks

PSDs attached.

What .xml do I have to edit to change the grey text colour? I've found that it's very hard to read against the magenta in my modified .png's.

Emph you will need to edit a few xmls. I use a program called PowerGREP to repace text in multiple files. You need to replace "ff808080" with whatever colour you like - in all xmls that it appears in.

@ All, I have a new release ready, with the new focus highlights - so unless anyone can spot any bugs in the next day or two I'll upload it .

 

[Darre]

lol funny how "P'R" Becomes "Page ranking" now, wasnt that way before ^^

Try typing P_R without the "_" it becomes "Page Ranking". Thats why it appears everybody says thx Page Ranking =)

Oh and PR aka P.R. aka Psycho Reptile; I posted a question for you/zeflash/"user who got it working" in the 'hot skins-->monochrome' area regarding what svn version to use - could you have a look?

 

[pafro1]

lol funny how "P'R" Becomes "Page ranking" now, wasnt that way before ^^

Try typing P_R without the "_" it becomes "Page Ranking". Thats why it appears everybody says thx Page Ranking =)

Damn hey. Never noticed that.

 

[Darre]

After getting the imdb in shares view stuff to work I wasn't completely satisfied with the way it looked, so I made a little mod.

My mod fixes (in a very dirty way) the appearance of empty boxes for non IMDB stuff like series or music vids. Simply by having listview not display imdb info - while filmstrip view does.

In design I removed the background in the IMDB box, and removed a few controlls I didn't like/need. I added the name of the movie and moved the rest around a bit.

The scrshots explain the rest.

Thx P.R for the great skin

EDIT:

v2
Fixed some minor stuff regarding design so it looks slightly better.
Fixed icon and big icon view. Both of them are without imdb stuff - and at full size now.

You need Zeflash's modified DLL files for this to work!
Get them here

 

[revs]

Darre: That Movies mod is great.

Less boxes and more reflections make it look very nice.

 

[ltfearme]

The FilmStrip view looks very nice

 

[ThaClown]

Love it Darre! Thx

 

[Darre]

I'm glad people like the little mod.

Updated some files in my post above

 

[papas]

amazing dare
lets hope psycho integrates it as an optional view for his filmstrip

good job mate!

 

[allanp81]

I tried version 1 of your mod last night and as soon as I selected my videos it sat churning away on the local disk for about a minute before showing the contents. All of my content is on networked drives.