show bigger text in Listview? (1 Viewer)

[Cazz]

Is it possible to get bigger text to the listview.
It is a little hard to read the title of the movie, speciel if I have some nice background of a movie.

 

[ZealotSix]

The font size is controlled in the skin. If you're comfortable editing your skin files, I can point you to the right place. If not, you can switch skins, or decrease your display resolution. What skin do you use?

 

[Cazz]

The font size is controlled in the skin. If you're comfortable editing your skin files, I can point you to the right place. If not, you can switch skins, or decrease your display resolution. What skin do you use?

Just show me and I fallow you where ever you go

 

[ZealotSix]

Well it's different for different skins, but for example, in Blue3Wide, there's a file called movingpicturs.facade.xml. Go in there, and find the xml element that has a type of "listcontrol'. within that control element add <font>fontName</font>
where "fontName" is one of the fonts listed in the file called fonts.xml. (if a font element already exists, just modify it, no need to add a second one)

For example:

      <control>
        <visible>Control.IsVisible(50)</visible>
        <description>Movie List</description>
        <type>listcontrol</type>
        <id>50</id>
        <onleft>2</onleft>
        <onright>2</onright>
        <posX>786</posX>
        <posY>252</posY>
        <height>490</height>
        <textXOff>-30</textXOff>
        <IconXOff>1980</IconXOff>        
        <spinPosX>1549</spinPosX>
        <spinPosY>690</spinPosY>
        <spinAlign>Right</spinAlign>
        <spinColor>ff006698</spinColor>
        <spinCanFocus>no</spinCanFocus>
        [B][COLOR="Red"]<font>font60</font>[/COLOR][/B]
      </control>

If you don't like any of the fonts in fonts.xml, create a new one by using the similar structure that you see in that file.

 

[Cazz]

Very strange, I use the basic Blue3 as skin and when I add
<font>font60</font> the text is toooooo big but when I change to <font>font40</font> or even <font>font80</font> the text is so small I can almost not
read it at all.

it only work with <font>font60</font> and that is too big

    <control>
        <description>Movie List</description>
        <type>listcontrol</type>
        <id>50</id>
        <posX>10</posX>
        <posY>90</posY>
        <width>300</width>
        <height>390</height>
        <onright>5</onright>
        <spinPosX>#spin.xposition</spinPosX>
        <spinPosY>#spin.yposition</spinPosY>
        <spinWidth>#spin.width</spinWidth>
        <spinHeight>#spin.height</spinHeight>
        <spinAlign>left</spinAlign>
        <scrollOffset>1</scrollOffset>
        <textureUp>MovingPictures\page_up_nofocus.png</textureUp>
        <textureDown>MovingPictures\page_down_nofocus.png</textureDown>
        <textureUpFocus>MovingPictures\page_up_focus.png</textureUpFocus>
        <textureDownFocus>MovingPictures\page_down_focus.png</textureDownFocus>
        <textureFocus>MovingPictures\menu_focus.png</textureFocus>
        <textureNoFocus>dialog_button_nofocus.png</textureNoFocus>
        <textXOff>-20</textXOff>
        <textXOff2>450</textXOff2>
        <IconXOff>1400</IconXOff>
        <textcolor>ffffff</textcolor>
        <font>font60/font>
      </control>

 

[ZealotSix]

You will need to go into the fonts.xml file and find a font that works for you. Or create a new font element in that file by copying another font and changing the name / font size.

Edit: also in the code you pasted, you are missing an angle bracket. It should read <font>font60</font>

 

[Cazz]

Thanks it work great after I have read how font.xml works