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<blockquote data-quote="elliottmc" data-source="post: 830456" data-attributes="member: 14268">Re: Skin engine enhancements (themes, guide colors, skin functions, weather settings.It is strange that I only see this message when I have that particular string in the EPG colour list, and then it over-writes the string from MediaPortal.xml.bak. I have verified this behaviour a couple of times, so I am pretty confident that it is related (or maybe the message has nothing to do with the string but it still breaks EPG colouring.Try this.1. Fill your MediaPortal.xml with EPG colouring entries that don't correspond to any real categories, so that you don't have any EPG colouring. Run MP so that MediaPortal.xml.bak 2. Edit MediaPortal.xml to use correct categories, but use the string I quoted above in one of them. Now run MP.You would expect to see colours for most of the categories, but not the one for the string I quoted.In fact, you won't (or I don't) see any colouring in the EPG, because just having that problem string in there means that the entire section is copied back from MediaPortal.xml (or the file itself is restored - I didn't check anything else).Mark</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elliottmc, post: 830456, member: 14268"] [b]Re: Skin engine enhancements (themes, guide colors, skin functions, weather settings.[/b] It is strange that I only see this message when I have that particular string in the EPG colour list, and then it over-writes the string from MediaPortal.xml.bak. I have verified this behaviour a couple of times, so I am pretty confident that it is related (or maybe the message has nothing to do with the string but it still breaks EPG colouring. Try this. 1. Fill your MediaPortal.xml with EPG colouring entries that don't correspond to any real categories, so that you don't have any EPG colouring. Run MP so that MediaPortal.xml.bak 2. Edit MediaPortal.xml to use correct categories, but use the string I quoted above in one of them. Now run MP. You would expect to see colours for most of the categories, but not the one for the string I quoted. In fact, you won't (or I don't) see any colouring in the EPG, because just having that problem string in there means that the entire section is copied back from MediaPortal.xml (or the file itself is restored - I didn't check anything else). Mark [/QUOTE]

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