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<blockquote data-quote="ajp8164" data-source="post: 830380" data-attributes="member: 64375">Re: Skin engine enhancements (themes, guide colors, skin functions, weather settings.Hi Mark,I think that error message is actually coming from the Avalon plugin.&nbsp; I've seen it too and they have a skin upgrade/download feature.&nbsp; I'll double check though.As for the genre mapping from your (and any other arbitrary) epg grab source... I obtained the list of genres that are in the test distribution from my tv database (which was populated by schedules direct).&nbsp; The tv database contains all of the genres that are mapped to the programs in your guide.&nbsp; The MP configuration tool I'll create will simply query your tv database for your list of genres; that's part A.&nbsp; Part B could be a &quot;fuzzy&quot; match algorithm that can create a starting point genre map.&nbsp; The genre map is used to map your specific providers epg genre names to a (more or less) standard set of MP genre names (of course best case is end users can create their own MP genre names, which is what I would put into the configuration tool).&nbsp; Then, part C, the MP genre names are used to associate colors.&nbsp; The implementation then uses the genre name associated with the program (coming directly from the tv database) and does a lookup to find the MP genre it is mapped to, then the MP genre is used to index the color and viola, a colored program entry!With this implementation the program (epg) genre to MP genre lookup queries for an exact match of the program genre in the genre map.&nbsp; It's an exact match of whatever appears between commas in the setting file entry. This is why you have to enter all of the text of the genre (including the &quot;(general)&quot; part).&nbsp; I'll take a look at the apostrophe thing.The basic idea behind all of this is that the tv database lists lots and lots of genres, too many.&nbsp; If you tried to put a color with every genre you'd run out of colors and the guide coloring would be useless.&nbsp; My research suggests that no more than 5-7 genre colors should be in the guide.In a configuration tool that I create all of this can be made to disappear (at least that's what I expect).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ajp8164, post: 830380, member: 64375"] [b]Re: Skin engine enhancements (themes, guide colors, skin functions, weather settings.[/b] Hi Mark, I think that error message is actually coming from the Avalon plugin. I've seen it too and they have a skin upgrade/download feature. I'll double check though. As for the genre mapping from your (and any other arbitrary) epg grab source... I obtained the list of genres that are in the test distribution from my tv database (which was populated by schedules direct). The tv database contains all of the genres that are mapped to the programs in your guide. The MP configuration tool I'll create will simply query your tv database for your list of genres; that's part A. Part B could be a "fuzzy" match algorithm that can create a starting point genre map. The genre map is used to map your specific providers epg genre names to a (more or less) standard set of MP genre names (of course best case is end users can create their own MP genre names, which is what I would put into the configuration tool). Then, part C, the MP genre names are used to associate colors. The implementation then uses the genre name associated with the program (coming directly from the tv database) and does a lookup to find the MP genre it is mapped to, then the MP genre is used to index the color and viola, a colored program entry! With this implementation the program (epg) genre to MP genre lookup queries for an exact match of the program genre in the genre map. It's an exact match of whatever appears between commas in the setting file entry. This is why you have to enter all of the text of the genre (including the "(general)" part). I'll take a look at the apostrophe thing. The basic idea behind all of this is that the tv database lists lots and lots of genres, too many. If you tried to put a color with every genre you'd run out of colors and the guide coloring would be useless. My research suggests that no more than 5-7 genre colors should be in the guide. In a configuration tool that I create all of this can be made to disappear (at least that's what I expect). [/QUOTE]

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