[Skin release] SimpleMP Beta 4 (MP 0.2.3.0) (1 Viewer)

[mikael]

Hi Mikael,

i have made an attempt at modifying My Films. i've attached the files to this post, and in the rar file is a list of the changes i've made. I hope it helps!

its_me_gb

its_me_gb -> Could you contact the author of MyFilms plugin and ask him to include this in the zip-release file. I've decided to not include plugin support in the main skin release as it slows down the performance on slow computers (read like 650 Mhz). Plugins also changes more often than this skin

Some tips for your skin files:

• The end user will not change in the strings_[lang].xml files as it's "complicated" and will be overwritten when updating MP. Instead open up MesFilmsDetails and just replace the 79861 value with the text "Update"
• videos_logo.png files is not used in SimpleMP at all (Why use multiple english labels when you can have language dependent vector font files that also loads faster?). Replace:

        <control>
           <type>image</type>
           <id>25</id>
           <posX>56</posX>
           <posY>16</posY>
           <texture>videos_logo.png</texture>
        </control>

  
  With this:

  	<control>
  		<description>Videos label</description> 
  		<type>label</type> 
  		<posX>20</posX> 
  		<posY>20</posY>
  		<align>left</align>
  		<font>font48</font> 
  		<label>100006</label>
  		<textcolor>20ffffff</textcolor> 
  		<id>25</id> 
                  <animation effect="fade" time="150">WindowOpen</animation>
                  <animation effect="fade" time="150">WindowClose</animation>
  	</control>

  (Don't forget to delete the videos_logo.png from the package.)
  
• Change the main group's <posX>60</posX> to <posX>30</posX> (in both xml's) as of SimpleBeta 4 uses the screen width in a better way.
  
• Persuade me to install the MyFilms plugin and how good it is as I may be inspired to do some new graphics for this plugin

I could have make the changes above myself, but I like this cooperation thing..

Happy Christmas!

 

[its_me_gb]

excellent, i shall do that when i get some time! a bit busy at the moment, what with it being christmas and all!!

Have a good Christmas!!

gb

 

[fo0d]

Thanks alot mikael

 

[moh]

Thank you very much Mikael!

Merry X-mas,
moh

 

[its_me_gb]

Ok,

here is my first version of the My Films skin, there is a problem with all the views except for List view, but i have sent a PM to zebons, and hopefully it will be fixed soon.

As i say this is a first version, enjoy.

its_me_gb

 

[Sh4nn0w]

Typical, been ill for the last 2 weeks.

I've just got to complete some tweaking of the text colours for Fan Art and then it should be complete.

For anyone desperate to use MyTVSeries, here's the latest version, which is fully functional, but best used without Fan Art currently.

 

[its_me_gb]

Excellent, thanks Sh4nn0w,

just one thing i noticed, when displaying the list of all series, the menu at the bottom of the screen (All, Unwatched, Favorites...etc etc) overlap the series images.

apart from that excellent! Oh and out of curiosity, how do i setup tvseries to use fan art?

its_me_gb

 

[Sh4nn0w]

Thanks, something else I missed, will look into that too.

For Fan Art just download it from Spuck's website or check out the Fan Art thread in the TVSeries forum. You just need to create a 'Fan Art' folder in the thumbs folder:

default location would be: C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Thumbs\Fan Art
and place the PNG files for your series in there. They will then appear when you select a series. Yoiu need to keep the original file names as MP selects them using the series ID and whether its Dark or Light.

There just some issues at the moment depending on what Fan Art is used, which I need to work through.

 

[fo0d]

Thanks alot its_me_gb and Sh4nn0w

 

[mikael]

Sh4nn0w has done a great job on the xml side of the MyTVSeries plugin. Until the last issues is fixed by Sh4nn0w I know that many of you would like to use the plugin with the new graphics included.

I'll attach a zip file with the same xml as Sh4nn0w posted above, but also with the new graphic files included.

Screenshots can be found here!