Skin project: Core (1 Viewer)

[djohansson]

djohansson nice job.
I love it. If you don't mind some feedback.

When I started the skin I got a select album dialog box that was very persistent.
Finally click the I button and the box filled and I could cancel out.

I tried the Music Videos. Love the look but the black on black focus bar was a bit hard to find.. ya I know I am getting old.
Also when I selected Favorites..sorry I have this thing from Christina Agullera.
Anyway, the favorite items go completely across the screen obscuring your menu.

Tv Series. I love it. I can read it. It would be nice to have 5 TV series banners instead of 4. A bit more symetry. sort of fill in the black area on the right more.
Also the menu while the blue focus bar is on it. You can't read the season.

Myvideos. very cool. Just notice when you scroll up or down the last row scrolls into the greay area at the bottom.Stopping at the line would be cleaner.

A teacher once told me there was no such thing as constructive critisim. He was right. It always hurts.. But man I do like this, I think you have something very cool here..keep up the great work and if you want me to shut up thats cool to..just don't stop its great

Hi,

Thanks for your comments. The main purpose of sharing my skin with this community is to get comments, suggestions and help to find all bugs so your post doesn't hurt at all...

I have some questions though. I did not really understand what you referred to with the select album dialog? In what part did you see this?

Music videos is not supported yet so I can not really judge how it looks. On TV series I have also noted that the selected text diappears. I don't relly know why this happens, anyone that can help here?

With MyVideos I don't think that I can do anything about it. I agree with you that it would look better if the scrolling took place within the black area but I think that this is a mediaportal issue and not a skin issue. If I'm wrong please help... : )

Thanks again for your comments!

 

[RICHARDG]

Hey there
When I started MP I went to setting and switched to Core.
It switched fine but gave me this empty album selection box. If I remember right I clicked "I" on my remote and them I could then exit from it.

AS for your questions..sorry man I havn't got a clue. I can tell ya what looks good. But how this stuff works..I'm lost.

Keep up the great work. Oh and the TV series skin has changed now that Mirk has issued an updated version.
Aslo MP gives me an outdated skin error when I start it cold.
I wish I could help.

anyway keep it up. ITs very cool

 

[infinite.loop]

Aslo MP gives me an outdated skin error when I start it cold.

thats most likely because you use 0.2.3.0 RC1 and the skin is designed for 0.2.2.0

 

[djohansson]

Hey there
When I started MP I went to setting and switched to Core.
It switched fine but gave me this empty album selection box. If I remember right I clicked "I" on my remote and them I could then exit from it.

AS for your questions..sorry man I havn't got a clue. I can tell ya what looks good. But how this stuff works..I'm lost.

Keep up the great work. Oh and the TV series skin has changed now that Mirk has issued an updated version.
Aslo MP gives me an outdated skin error when I start it cold.
I wish I could help.

anyway keep it up. ITs very cool

Ok, then I know. Settings is another are where I have not done anything yet. It's not my first priority either, not right now. TV series is already fixed and will work out of the box with the next release.

 

[djohansson]

Hi,

I have a need for help here. I am trying to adjust the textureheight of the progress bar in videoOSD.xml but I can not find the tags for this.

<control>
        <description>Progress Bar</description>
        <type>progress</type>
        <id>1</id>
        <posX>123</posX>
        <posY>669</posY>
        <width>940</width>
        <height>140</height>
        <texturebg></texturebg>
        <lefttexture>osd_progress_left.png</lefttexture>
        <midtexture>osd_progress_mid.png</midtexture>
        <righttexture>osd_progress_right.png</righttexture>
        <textureHeight>27</textureHeight>
        <visible>yes</visible>
        <label>#percentage</label>
    </control>

I have tried adjusting the height but this just affects the whole control. Tried textureheight and textureHeight as above, no success. Anyone to help?

 

[madsrh]

It looks very nice! If I should mention anything it would be the background color; I think it's dark and sad (also cool), but maybe there could be two versions? Just a thought...
Keep up the good work.

 

[DarkWader]

Hi,

I have a need for help here. I am trying to adjust the textureheight of the progress bar in videoOSD.xml but I can not find the tags for this.

<control>
        <description>Progress Bar</description>
        <type>progress</type>
        <id>1</id>
        <posX>123</posX>
        <posY>669</posY>
        <width>940</width>
        <height>140</height>
        <texturebg></texturebg>
        <lefttexture>osd_progress_left.png</lefttexture>
        <midtexture>osd_progress_mid.png</midtexture>
        <righttexture>osd_progress_right.png</righttexture>
        <textureHeight>27</textureHeight>
        <visible>yes</visible>
        <label>#percentage</label>
    </control>

I have tried adjusting the height but this just affects the whole control. Tried textureheight and textureHeight as above, no success. Anyone to help?

I believe that you must change the hight of this, by changing the gfx.
The progressbar becomes as large as the gfx is...

 

[djohansson]

Hi,

I have a need for help here. I am trying to adjust the textureheight of the progress bar in videoOSD.xml but I can not find the tags for this.

<control>
        <description>Progress Bar</description>
        <type>progress</type>
        <id>1</id>
        <posX>123</posX>
        <posY>669</posY>
        <width>940</width>
        <height>140</height>
        <texturebg></texturebg>
        <lefttexture>osd_progress_left.png</lefttexture>
        <midtexture>osd_progress_mid.png</midtexture>
        <righttexture>osd_progress_right.png</righttexture>
        <textureHeight>27</textureHeight>
        <visible>yes</visible>
        <label>#percentage</label>
    </control>

I have tried adjusting the height but this just affects the whole control. Tried textureheight and textureHeight as above, no success. Anyone to help?

I believe that you must change the hight of this, by changing the gfx.
The progressbar becomes as large as the gfx is...

Ok, thanks for your help. I have now modified the textures accordingly. Quite surprising that there was no tag for this. TV progress could be adjusted with <fillheight>...

 

[djohansson]

Some updated screenshots in the first post! Please comment on the color of the progress bars. Is green a good choice here? I was thinking about blue as well but I wanted to distiguish it from the blue selection bars.

Version 0.2 will be uploaded later today.

 

[djohansson]

This is the coolest skin i have seen on any software. EVER!! I use mythtv as well as media portal and I was wondering if I could use these graphics to replicate this skin to my other system??

You can do this if you want. Just refer back to here...