[Approved] Progressbar without lefttexture/righttexture (2 Viewers)

[OnkelChris]

AW: Progressbar without lefttexture/righttexture

i am not a team member, but i think this could be useful for skinners?!

btw: i won't be disappointed, if it not implemented...

 

[catavolt]

AW: Progressbar without lefttexture/righttexture

If you look into the majority of skins, nobody uses left and right textures.
All adjust their progressbars in varying x/y positions and apply the new properties "innerheight" and "offset", which do exactly that what you are proposing
Nevertheless for you engagement

 

[SilentException]

catavolt: if the <onlymidtexture> tag isn't used, there is no any overhead on skin engine at all.

But I'm still waiting for the reply from original author whether catavolt's suggestions are good enough. If not, there are no problems implementing this, performance or code wise.

 

[OnkelChris]

AW: Re: Progressbar without lefttexture/righttexture

But I'm still waiting for the reply from original author whether catavolt's suggestions are good enough.

me? I think it's easier/better to "paint" some images in photoshop, slice them and then fit them 1:1 into MP... no need for playing around with x/y-coordinates, stretching or something else.

 

[catavolt]

AW: Progressbar without lefttexture/righttexture

What most of the skinners do is the following: You know the width of the left/right texture, lets say 4 px. So you just add 8 px to the length of the bar, put the same x values as the progressbar background (if you want to start the progressbar on exact the same position) and that´s it.
With the "innerheight" and "offset"properties of progressbar you can steer what "frame" of the progressbar background is visible. Very easy and practiced in all skins I know.

 

[SilentException]

OnkelChris: could you update wiki with new tags and their descriptions?

Progress - MediaPortal Wiki

:thanks:

 

[OnkelChris]

AW: Progressbar without lefttexture/righttexture

What most of the skinners do is the following: You know the width of the left/right texture, lets say 4 px. So you just add 8 px to the length of the bar, put the same x values as the progressbar background (if you want to start the progressbar on exact the same position) and that´s it.
With the "innerheight" and "offset"properties of progressbar you can steer what "frame" of the progressbar background is visible. Very easy and practiced in all skins I know.

And that's exactly what annoyed me
At the beginning I did this patch for myself... Then I thought other people would also like to have the possibility to "paint" progressbars and use them 1:1 on MP and not to add some pixels here and there...
As SilentException stated: No skin is affected by these changes, you can use my suggestions or do it the way you did before

@SilentException:
will do this at the weekend

 

[SilentException]

Awesome!

I forgot one wiki page

Progress - MediaPortal Wiki
This one you should edit with new tag information

1.1.0 to 1.2.0 - MediaPortal Wiki
Add new page here and enter some more information about the change (look at other pages here for reference)

I'll review these after you're done and commit the patch.

 

[catavolt]

AW: Progressbar without lefttexture/righttexture

OK then - go ahead

 

[OnkelChris]

AW: Progressbar without lefttexture/righttexture

hmm... is it me or the policies of the wiki?! Can't edit pages...