[skin update] "theatre" simple to use and nice to view (1 Viewer)

kyleh0000

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    ok i did some messing around today and complete a new basic home based on the original

    this one fits my needs much better, at the moment i had added in the plugins i used even though they arent supported by the skin at this stage but the main ones i want are in there

    a few things i still havent done and would like to....


    - i need to change the location of where the now playing window sits as i move the menu and now it covers this up

    - i want to change how many menu items there are and also include submenus, my plan is to put a simply revolving menu in the bottom left of the home page that then opens up into the horizonal menu similar to what you now have, this is gone to be a big change but worth it i think

    - also i was planing on implementing RSS feeds and weather so when you select weather in the vertical menu you get a preview of the next 5 days in the horizontal menu

    As for the menu editor i not sure if you have started it but i have some idea on how to implement it, i dont know all that much about xml (but im starting to learn) but i do know .net

    what I would do is create a basic home template file, and instead of having "TV" or "Movies" as the labels use variables like lbl_item1 and id_item1 so that way all you need to do in vb is write a simple gui that just scan the text file and replaces lbl_item with "TV" or movies or what ever the user wants. That bit wont be to hard to do, and when install Visual Studio on my laptop im happy enough to start work on it if you like.

    below is an example of what i mean, in your basic home you currently have....

    <description>Weather1</description>
    <type>button</type>
    <id>1800</id>
    <posX>0</posX>
    <posY>0</posY>
    <width>320</width>
    <height>72</height>
    <textureFocus>-</textureFocus>
    <textureNoFocus>-</textureNoFocus>
    <hyperlink>2600</hyperlink>
    <hover>-</hover>
    <onleft>1809</onleft>
    <onright>1701</onright>
    <onup>160001</onup>
    <ondown>66</ondown>
    <visible>Control.IsVisible(1800)</visible>
    </control>
    <control>
    <description>Weather2</description>
    <type>label</type>
    <posX>-160</posX>
    <posY>425</posY>
    <width>320</width>
    <height>72</height>
    <textcolor>#menuitemNoFocus</textcolor>
    <font>#labelFont</font>
    <align>center</align>
    <label>Weather</label>
    <visible>Control.HasFocus(1701)|Control.IsVisible(1101)</visible>
    <animation effect="slide" end="-320,0" time="400" acceleration="-0.4" reversible="false">visiblechange</animation>
    </control>

    if you have something like this....

    <description>item1_1</description>
    <type>button</type>
    <id>id_item1</id>
    <posX>0</posX>
    <posY>0</posY>
    <width>320</width>
    <height>72</height>
    <textureFocus>-</textureFocus>
    <textureNoFocus>-</textureNoFocus>
    <hyperlink>2600</hyperlink>
    <hover>-</hover>
    <onleft>1809</onleft>
    <onright>1701</onright>
    <onup>160001</onup>
    <ondown>66</ondown>
    <visible>Control.IsVisible(1800)</visible>
    </control>
    <control>
    <description>item1_2</description>
    <type>label</type>
    <posX>-160</posX>
    <posY>425</posY>
    <width>320</width>
    <height>72</height>
    <textcolor>#menuitemNoFocus</textcolor>
    <font>#labelFont</font>
    <align>center</align>
    <label>lbl_item1</label>
    <visible>Control.HasFocus(1701)|Control.IsVisible(1101)</visible>
    <animation effect="slide" end="-320,0" time="400" acceleration="-0.4" reversible="false">visiblechange</animation>
    </control>

    you could easily write a program to simply replace lbl_item1 and id_item1 with the ID and lable weather, then just replace the basichome.xml with the template one and bobs your uncle a new basic home!

    I have also attached my basichome for anyone that wants to try it, like i said a lot of the plugins dont work as they are not supported yet and the video overlay is in the wrong spot but its getting there

    this version also includes backgrounds that rotate themselfs just load the images into

    /media/animations/movies
    /media/animations/tv
    /media/animations/games
    /media/animations/weather
    /media/animations/pics
    /media/animations/music

    This was thanks to the X-Factor team for showing me how it was done!:D
     

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    PussyWagon

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    Excellent skin dude! Very nice... :)
    As i am using a touch screen to navigate through the menus and my music and radio files i have some feature requests if possible.
    Is it possible to put in some arrows to use when navigating through homescreen menu and in music section for example? Its also nice for all using mouse to navigate. There is no touch screen made skin out there and i have been using monochrome for a very long time now because it has been the best for me when navigating with fingers. But now i really would have loved to change my skin to yours as its very nice and clean!

    It would have been awesome if it was possible, i may post some pictures of how i would like to have it just to give you some ideas if you want to?

    Regards
     

    kyleh0000

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    in case anyone is wondering im working on a mod for this skin to enable the following...

    - Image backgrounds that cycle all the images in one folder (simialr to xfactor and stremedmp)

    - Vertical menu with a horizontal submenu

    - RSS and Weather information

    - Menu editor that will allow the skin to be highly cusomisable this will include

    Menu style (ie Vertical only, horizontal only and Submenu)
    menu location (ie top middle or bottom)
    Options to turn on or off the weather
    chaging the font style
    as well as all the usualy stuff with like setting the plugin names.

    Im hoping to have the above done, before the end of next weekend, so far i have done all the XML and im about 30% done with the Menu editor

    Below are things im looking at doing in the future...

    Review the poster location and layout of MP TV Series and Moving Picutres pluings
    Add support for the other plugins mentioned here on this thread
    and i dont have a touch screen to test it with but im sure i can add some sort of overlay that will allow navigation using a tocuh screen, however this is very low on my list

    I have attached a screen shot of what i have so far, im not teribly good a photo shop so i need to get some updated graphics for the menu background which im hopgin to get soon, the highlighted area will be faded in rather than square as it is in the screen shot, and the vertical menu will also have the next and pervius items above and below (similar to the horizontal menu)

    anyway if you have any suggestion for this mod please let me know :)
     

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    ammmze

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    Looks like there has been a bit of progress while I was gone. I am excited for the menu editor, I think I like the original basic home menu with the submenus more than the newer one, so having that easily changable with the menu editor will be good.
     

    kyleh0000

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    Looks like there has been a bit of progress while I was gone. I am excited for the menu editor, I think I like the original basic home menu with the submenus more than the newer one, so having that easily changable with the menu editor will be good.
    yeah i like the look of just the single menu as well but depending on how many plugins you use it can be a lot of navigation to get to the item you want.

    but yes there will definetly be an option to swap between them
     

    csapollo

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    I've been using StreamedMP ever since I started using MediaPortal. I do love the look of this theme though.. when I get home tonight I might give it a try =) How is the support for 1.1A?
     

    GarenT

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    A little help....

    Ok this may sound dumb but how do I close MediaPortal and get back to my desktop in this Skin????
     

    kyleh0000

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    I've been using StreamedMP ever since I started using MediaPortal. I do love the look of this theme though.. when I get home tonight I might give it a try =) How is the support for 1.1A?

    so far im only testing this mod with 1.02 i dont normaly install alpha versions however ill start looking at this when 1.1 RC1 is released

    and @garent alt+f4 for the win
     

    PussyWagon

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    kyleh0000:
    Great work you are doing! :)
    About the 3-4day forecast weather, is it possible to have this forecast to be always visible? Not only when you highlightig the weather icon? But perhaps thats how it will work? Its hard to say through the image... :p
    Sounds nice about the features you are working on!

    About the touch screen interface i really do understand this is not priority one for you. But i do know there actually is many out there using mediaportal with touch and it becomes more and more ordinary. Also, this touch screen interface will work nice to use with your mouse... So having this skin with TouchScreen compabilitys will be the first of its kind which is really cool! :)

    About the mouse, in homescreen when moving the mouse the screen fades to black? This means i cant navigate using the mouse at all. And when using keyboard/remote left right it all apears fine again. Any ideas on why?
     

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