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<blockquote data-quote="elliottmc" data-source="post: 830362" data-attributes="member: 14268">Re: Skin engine enhancements (themes, guide colors, skin functions, weather settings.Hi,Right, I can get rid of the colour definitions from MediaPortal.xml, since as you say they are in skinsettings.xml, so this works fine.With&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;Movie&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/entry&gt;then movies are not showing up with the correct colour.with&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;Movie&quot;&gt;movie/drama (general)&lt;/entry&gt;then they are fine.In fact with&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;Movie&quot;&gt;movie/drama&lt;/entry&gt;then the colouring is not applied, so it seems to require the whole string.I guess this presents us with a problem, because we will need a database of all possible genre wording used in EPGs to apply colours.I guess the first thing I would suggest is ensure that it really is a sub-string search so that anything containing 'movie' or 'news' will be flagged up. This should simplify the situation.If these keywords could be loaded from strings, they could be localised, so that we might get away with one word per genre per language.Of course I don't know how this is implemented so I don't know how feasible this is. I just feel that if every user has to edit the genre wording based on that used by their EPG provider, then this feature won't see much use, which would be a shame.I hope this all comes across as constructive, and not negative.Best wishes,Mark</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elliottmc, post: 830362, member: 14268"] [b]Re: Skin engine enhancements (themes, guide colors, skin functions, weather settings.[/b] Hi, Right, I can get rid of the colour definitions from MediaPortal.xml, since as you say they are in skinsettings.xml, so this works fine. With <entry name="Movie">movie</entry> then movies are not showing up with the correct colour. with <entry name="Movie">movie/drama (general)</entry> then they are fine. In fact with <entry name="Movie">movie/drama</entry> then the colouring is not applied, so it seems to require the whole string. I guess this presents us with a problem, because we will need a database of all possible genre wording used in EPGs to apply colours. I guess the first thing I would suggest is ensure that it really is a sub-string search so that anything containing 'movie' or 'news' will be flagged up. This should simplify the situation. If these keywords could be loaded from strings, they could be localised, so that we might get away with one word per genre per language. Of course I don't know how this is implemented so I don't know how feasible this is. I just feel that if every user has to edit the genre wording based on that used by their EPG provider, then this feature won't see much use, which would be a shame. I hope this all comes across as constructive, and not negative. Best wishes, Mark [/QUOTE]

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