Skin request: Showing movie title on random fanart (1 Viewer)

[RoChess]

I love the random fanart that shows when a Category view is generated, but sometimes I see a fanart that makes me want to watch that movie, but unless I recognize it, I would have no idea. I don't mind modifying the Blue3Wide skin to have a small line of text be in the bottom corner that shows the movietitle belonging to the fanart, so that it would be much easier for me to identify the movie. I could pick a font color that would almost hide it, unless I really focus on it, so that it doesn't interfere much with the current looks.

Can a skin person please help me on how I would go about that?

I reckon I have to add a 'control' to the main movingpictures.xml file, but I have no idea as to what the other XML entries should be for it to actually work.

 

[ltfearme]

Hi RoChess, typically you would just create a label control in movingpictures.xml.

The property would be:

#MovingPictures.SelectedNode.Extra.AdditionalSettings.backdropmovie

<control>
  <type>label</type>      
  <id>0</id>
  <posX>100</posX>
  <posY>100</posY>
  <label>#MovingPictures.SelectedNode.Extra.AdditionalSettings.backdropmovie</label>			  
</control>

But looks like its not being populated by the looks of my log, possibly a bug there.

fyi...you can turn on skinner debugging from the Advanced Settings panel. This will push all properties to the log file.

 

[RoChess]

Figures, I want something useful for myself and I stumble upon a bug

I actually found another bug last night, but I will start a new thread for it.

 

[RoChess]

Ok, I added:

<control>
  <type>label</type>
  <id>0</id>
  <posX>727</posX>
  <posY>12</posY>
  <width>200</width>
  <font>font11</font>
  <label>#MovingPictures.SelectedNode.Extra.AdditionalSettings.backdropmovie</label>
  <textcolor>ffa9d0f7</textcolor>
</control>

after your suggestion, figuring the added fields might help, but no luck either. However I couldn't locate anything related on the Google code issue list, so does that mean it wasn't a bug and I should use the skinning debug option to find the right label?

 

[ltfearme]

Sorry, I just didnt have time to reproduce. I only saw that the skinning debugging option showed an empty string in the log for: #MovingPictures.SelectedNode.Extra.AdditionalSettings.backdropmovie

Either way, looks like a bug so if you can please raise on google code that would be great.