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<blockquote data-quote="elliottmc" data-source="post: 863617" data-attributes="member: 14268">Hi Andy,&nbsp;I have tested this on my server, and it is looking good. Configuration is logical and intuitive.&nbsp;There are a couple of issues I found.&nbsp;1. If I don't copy the section you had in the readme for the last readme, I get the following in MediaPortal.xml&nbsp;[code]&nbsp; &lt;section name=&quot;genreoptions&quot;&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;specifympaaratedasmovie&quot;&gt;no&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &lt;/section&gt;&nbsp; &lt;section name=&quot;tvguidecolors&quot;&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;guidecolorchannelbutton&quot;&gt;FF0E517B&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;guidecolorchannelbuttonselected&quot;&gt;FF008000&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;guidecolorgroupbutton&quot;&gt;FF0E517B&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;guidecolorgroupbuttonselected&quot;&gt;FF008000&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;guidecolorprogramselected&quot;&gt;FF008000&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;guidecolorprogramended&quot;&gt;FF808080&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;guidecolorborderhighlight&quot;&gt;99FFFFFF&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;defaultgenre&quot;&gt;FF1D355B,FF0E517B&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &lt;/section&gt;[/code]&nbsp;IMO we also need to add&nbsp;[code]&nbsp; &lt;section name=&quot;genremap&quot;&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;genrenames&quot;&gt;Documentary,Kids,Movie,Music,News,Other,Special,Sports&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;Documentary&quot;&gt;&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;Kids&quot;&gt;&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;Movie&quot;&gt;&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;Music&quot;&gt;&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;News&quot;&gt;&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;Other&quot;&gt;&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;Special&quot;&gt;&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;entry name=&quot;Sports&quot;&gt;&lt;/entry&gt;&nbsp; &lt;/section&gt;[/code]&nbsp;that is the fairly standard genres but without anything mapped to them. (do we need the 'genrenames' entry? it shows up in the config list as a genre in its own right).&nbsp;The reason for this, is that you can then populate the 'tvguidecolors' section with default colours as well. Otherwise, the default is black.&nbsp;I still think we need to let the skin designer choose some good default colours, so I am very much in favour of having a list in skinsettings.xml. However, these could be stored as&nbsp;EPGColor1EPGColor2&nbsp;etc, and then have in config an 'import skin colors' button to fetch these. That way, the colours are not tied to particular genres, and it doesn't rely on the user being able to choose colours that match well for on now/on later.&nbsp;Oh, and once this is set up, I really do think we need to be able to export all of these settings on the server and import them on a client.&nbsp;Thanks,&nbsp;Mark</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elliottmc, post: 863617, member: 14268"] Hi Andy, I have tested this on my server, and it is looking good. Configuration is logical and intuitive. There are a couple of issues I found. 1. If I don't copy the section you had in the readme for the last readme, I get the following in MediaPortal.xml [code] <section name="genreoptions"> <entry name="specifympaaratedasmovie">no</entry> </section> <section name="tvguidecolors"> <entry name="guidecolorchannelbutton">FF0E517B</entry> <entry name="guidecolorchannelbuttonselected">FF008000</entry> <entry name="guidecolorgroupbutton">FF0E517B</entry> <entry name="guidecolorgroupbuttonselected">FF008000</entry> <entry name="guidecolorprogramselected">FF008000</entry> <entry name="guidecolorprogramended">FF808080</entry> <entry name="guidecolorborderhighlight">99FFFFFF</entry> <entry name="defaultgenre">FF1D355B,FF0E517B</entry> </section> [/code] IMO we also need to add [code] <section name="genremap"> <entry name="genrenames">Documentary,Kids,Movie,Music,News,Other,Special,Sports</entry> <entry name="Documentary"></entry> <entry name="Kids"></entry> <entry name="Movie"></entry> <entry name="Music"></entry> <entry name="News"></entry> <entry name="Other"></entry> <entry name="Special"></entry> <entry name="Sports"></entry> </section> [/code] that is the fairly standard genres but without anything mapped to them. (do we need the 'genrenames' entry? it shows up in the config list as a genre in its own right). The reason for this, is that you can then populate the 'tvguidecolors' section with default colours as well. Otherwise, the default is black. I still think we need to let the skin designer choose some good default colours, so I am very much in favour of having a list in skinsettings.xml. However, these could be stored as EPGColor1 EPGColor2 etc, and then have in config an 'import skin colors' button to fetch these. That way, the colours are not tied to particular genres, and it doesn't rely on the user being able to choose colours that match well for on now/on later. Oh, and once this is set up, I really do think we need to be able to export all of these settings on the server and import them on a client. Thanks, Mark [/QUOTE]

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