[skin update] "theatre" simple to use and nice to view (2 Viewers)

kyleh0000

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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?

    yes i know why the menu disappears, when you move the mouse the controls loses focus and if nothing has focus it doesnt know what to display, know im not 100% sure how im going to resolve the issue but i have built the options into the menu editor to change it.

    the only real reason that building touch screen support is low on the list is because i dont have one to test the navigation ect so ill ad the option into the editor to display an overlay for touch screens then i will have to get someone else to test to ensure it works

    Anyone the first thing to get done is the editor then ill look at tweaking the code to resolve these issues.
     

    TranceManNZ

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    I really really really love this skin !!!

    I have just 1 small issue, I can not see my recorded tv. Anyone else having this problem?
    Using MP 1.0.2 Stable build. Working fine in all other skins.

    Cheers
     

    PussyWagon

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    As you dont have time right now im trying to modify your skin a bit to suit my needs as a touch interface.
    But im not really good at this so i need some help from you. :)

    #1: Where do i find all ACTION and LABEL id:s?
    #2: I want to change the width of the menu in basichome, i know where to change the background width but not how to change the menu width. How do i do this?
    #3: Where do i change the row number in music section and "listview"?

    Im sure there will be more questions further on, hope its ok with you. :)

    Regards.
     

    Dadeo

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    As you dont have time right now im trying to modify your skin a bit to suit my needs as a touch interface.
    But im not really good at this so i need some help from you. :)

    #1: Where do i find all ACTION and LABEL id:s?
    #2: I want to change the width of the menu in basichome, i know where to change the background width but not how to change the menu width. How do i do this?
    #3: Where do i change the row number in music section and "listview"?

    Im sure there will be more questions further on, hope its ok with you. :)

    Regards.

    1. Attached is a list of all action ids I did for myself. What do you mean by Label Ids? If you mean the text that appears on a button, or the text that appears in headers, those are in the MediaPortal\Language\strings files (depending on your language). In MP 1.1.0 I think the language folder has moved to Program Data. Pretty much any text imported by MP comes from strings files.
    2. I don't know
    3. You can't specify the number of rows for listcontrols, only for the Menu control on MyHome (and that's not really rows, it's number of buttons). The number of rows you get in a listcontrol depends on the height of the listcontrol and the height of the textures and the number of spaces between each item. Most listcontrols are defined in the common.facade xmls, but some are defined in individual xmls.

    I know the Wiki on Skin Architecture is hard to figure out at first, but there is a lot of stuff in there once you know what to look for.
     

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    nanogod

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    Hi Folks!

    so i found some time this weekend to answer a few of your posts. here we go:

    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

    Hey PussyWagon, thank you, that you like my skin!
    As long as i dont have a touchscreen i will not support this. Maybe someone will do a Mod, thats OK.
    but if i cannot test this extensively, i dont see a point in doing it "blind". You know what i mean?
    If i read correctly Kyleh may try his hands on it. I hop you understand.
    As for mousecontrol: I dont plan to implement better mousesupport. I see a mediacenter software controled by a remote - and for this "theatre" is optimized. Soory for that. Hope not to dissapoint you...

    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?

    :D Thank you! Currently Theatre supports 1.0.2. when 1.1 is in a final stage (RC or stable) i will support it, of course.

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

    In Home: klick left on your remote. a small menu should appear with "close" "shutdown" and "basichome". hope that helps.

    I really really really love this skin !!!

    I have just 1 small issue, I can not see my recorded tv. Anyone else having this problem?
    Using MP 1.0.2 Stable build. Working fine in all other skins.

    Cheers

    Thats really odd. i thought the problem was solved. i will have a look and fix it in the next release.

    >>> Thanks Dadeo for answering the questions. You can edit the height of the musiclist in references.xml. Search for "listcontrol"

    A small update of what i´m currently doing:
    - support more plugins
    - fix a few small bugs (and a big one - this recording problem...)
    - cleanup, polishing

    At the moment, its hard to say, when i will release a new version. I work hard, but i dont have much sparetime at the moment. dont worry - work continues!

    thanks and have a wounderful time!

    nanogod
     

    kyleh0000

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    As you dont have time right now im trying to modify your skin a bit to suit my needs as a touch interface.
    But im not really good at this so i need some help from you. :)

    #1: Where do i find all ACTION and LABEL id:s?
    #2: I want to change the width of the menu in basichome, i know where to change the background width but not how to change the menu width. How do i do this?
    #3: Where do i change the row number in music section and "listview"?

    Im sure there will be more questions further on, hope its ok with you. :)

    Regards.

    1. Attached is a list of all action ids I did for myself. What do you mean by Label Ids? If you mean the text that appears on a button, or the text that appears in headers, those are in the MediaPortal\Language\strings files (depending on your language). In MP 1.1.0 I think the language folder has moved to Program Data. Pretty much any text imported by MP comes from strings files.
    2. I don't know
    3. You can't specify the number of rows for listcontrols, only for the Menu control on MyHome (and that's not really rows, it's number of buttons). The number of rows you get in a listcontrol depends on the height of the listcontrol and the height of the textures and the number of spaces between each item. Most listcontrols are defined in the common.facade xmls, but some are defined in individual xmls.

    I know the Wiki on Skin Architecture is hard to figure out at first, but there is a lot of stuff in there once you know what to look for.


    just wanted to check i havent tried these actions yet however one im particulay interested in is ACTION_SELECT_ITEM = 7 does this mean that it i open click on an item in basic home it has the abiltiy to give another control focus?

    if it does this is the key to touch screen support!

    and also a quick update the mod which im doing for the skin, i have some good news and some bad news.....

    First of all the bad news, the mod im working on will NOT support 1.02 at all, im currently developing this mod using 1.10 alaph + the latest SVN for one simple line of code the doesnt work in the perivous versions <visible allowhiddenfocus="true"> when this line doesnt work it means I need to write 3 times as much code to get the navigation to work, and its just not worth it considering that RC1 isnt to far off.

    Now for the good news, the menu editor is almost complete I basicly just need finish of some debugging then code the GUI, so far this editor will give you the following options

    - move the menu from middle to the bottom
    - have a vertical menu in the middle or the bottom
    - have a sub menu at the middle or the bottom
    - the skin support as many menu items as you like (unless you use sub menus which its then restricted to 10 items)
    - gives you the option of RSS feeds
    - give you weather features (perminant or as a menu item)
    - and obviously edit item names and labels

    Now i didnt get as much work done on this as i would have liked over the weekend partly because i had to change a lot of code to develop in 1.1 and also cause i had a mates bucks nite and got plastered :p

    Ill try and get this done asap but as it will only work in 1.10 i figure there is no longer such a rush

    Ill keep you posted on how this mod goes :)

    cheers
     

    ammmze

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    Speaking of 1.1.0.0 Alpha I am using it too and when I use this skin it crashes MP when I push the stop button when playing a video. But if I just let the video finish or if I switch from fullscreen to the gui before stopping it works fine. I don't know if the same happens with MP 1.0.2.0 or not, haven't tested it. I was wondering if anyone else has experienced that also. It does it on both machines I have tested both with Vista. Haven't taken the time to find the problem yet though.
     

    Dadeo

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    just wanted to check i havent tried these actions yet however one im particulay interested in is ACTION_SELECT_ITEM = 7 does this mean that it i open click on an item in basic home it has the abiltiy to give another control focus?

    First of all, a disclaimer - I'm no programming expert and that list is a bit old, but I don't think many action codes have changed. A better reference might be in MP Config under Keys and Sounds. It lists what actions are supported gloablly and in specific windows. Action 7 is a global action, which is what is excecuted when you press the enter (OK) key. So I think it would just open the item you have selected. I don't know if that helps! Maybe you will come up with a genius solution! :)
     

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