Renaming Home screen shortcuts (1 Viewer)

[jimz06]

When I had 0.2.3.0 running you could change the home screen shortcuts (e.g. My Videos to something like My Movies) by changing a global.xml file. I'm not seeing that file in RC4. How is this done in RC4?

 

[Thijs_O]

If you are using the Basic Home Screen, you can edit Basichome.xml to personal preference.

 

[jimz06]

Thanks for the reply, but I'm not finding any text fields for "Videos" in the code in the BasicHome.xml file. Had a look in other xml files with a "home" string in them also and did not find anything to edit. Are those shortcuts editable text or are they graphics now?

 

[Thijs_O]

You do need the BasicHome.xml file if you want to edit the Basic Home Screen. In this example I'll use the Blue3-skin as example. One part of the BasicHome.xml file for the Blue3 skin:

		<control>
[B]			<description>home BM Video</description>[/B]
			<type>button</type>
			<id>3</id>
			<posX>50</posX>
			<posY>200</posY>
			<width>137</width>
			<height>222</height>
			<textureFocus>Basic_video_focus.png</textureFocus>
			<textureNoFocus>Basic_video_nofocus.png</textureNoFocus>
[B]			<hyperlink>6</hyperlink>[/B]
			<hover>hover_my videos.png</hover>
			<hoverX>245</hoverX>
			<hoverY>280</hoverY>
			<hoverWidth>272</hoverWidth>
			<hoverHeight>306</hoverHeight>
[B]			<label>3</label>[/B]
			<textcolor>00ffffff</textcolor>
			<textcolorNoFocus>00ffffff</textcolorNoFocus>
			<onleft>7</onleft>
			<onright>4</onright>
			<onup>21</onup>
			<ondown>44</ondown>
			<animation effect="zoom" start="20,20" end="100,100" center="384,288" time="500">WindowOpen</animation>
            <animation effect="zoom" start="100,100" end="20,20" center="384,288" time="500">WindowClose</animation>
		</control>

I've highlighted three things:
1. Description: This is useful for yourself when editting to see what you are editting. As is shown, we are working on something called "BM Video" which is most likely the "Video" button.
2. This is probably new for you, not sure. The ID given in the Hyperlink-tag simply redirects to another XML-file. If you open myvideo.xml (same directory), you will see on top: <id>6</id>. So in order to make the right hyperlinks: open the .xml file you want to link to from the Basichome-screen, check which ID is given to that XML, and then use that ID in the <hyperlink> tags in your basichome.xml file.
3. The <label> tag quite simply refers to what the button is called on your Basic Home Screen. There is some codesystem for it I think (3=My Videos etc) but you can rather than inserting a number also just type whatsoever you want it to be called.

Other functions (such as button image etc) function pretty much the same way, and you should be able to sort that out. Good luck!

 

[jimz06]

Thanks, that was very helpful and I even managed to alter the BasicHome with my text. However, it's the regular home that I prefer to use and I can't seem to locate a "home" .xml with coding similar to the Basichome.xml (i.e. that I can understand). Can you point me to the correct file to alter for the home screen?

 

[Thijs_O]

If I am correct you'll be able to modify this in your Mediaportal Configuration (Plugins > Home > Config), not sure how detailed this will go because I never use that function.

 

[3dcoder]

Not sure if this can be applied to the basic home as well, but I just renamed "TV" to "Television" by editing the language files. At least that worked in the "classic home" view.

 

[jimz06]

Not sure if this can be applied to the basic home as well, but I just renamed "TV" to "Television" by editing the language files. At least that worked in the "classic home" view.

Bingo! That allowed me to rename the standard strings. I didn't find a string for "Moving Pictures" (which I would like to change to "Movies"). Any clue where that might be?

 

[vlapietra]

Not sure if this can be applied to the basic home as well, but I just renamed "TV" to "Television" by editing the language files. At least that worked in the "classic home" view.

Bingo! That allowed me to rename the standard strings. I didn't find a string for "Moving Pictures" (which I would like to change to "Movies"). Any clue where that might be?

I can't remember exactly what the screens look like, but if you go into the Moving Pictures configuration and select "advanced options" or something like that, they'll be an option to change the home screen text somewhere near the top.

fyi - you'll have to click past a scary "don't blame me if your PC explodes" warning message.