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

[nanogod]

When I had a quick test of the skin, I noticed that the visualization in "Now playing" (at least in Basic Home, don't remember any other place) were overlapping the artist/track info. Perhaps the object is bigger than CD covers for visualizations?

Do you mean music visualisation? that may be. I don´t have vis set up on my machine so i cant tell. I will fix it. thanks!

Hi,

I really like your skin! Very nice basic home screen. Like the purple and whitish color.

I have a few questions.
1. As some people stated earlier, in the now playing screen the countdown timer falls half out of screen. (1920x1080)
2. on the basic home screen, the text for pictures (in dutch afbeeldingen) falls half out of screen
3. the tv guide has only 6 lines. Some of us have big screens, 32", and are able to read 10 lines.
4. I really like the OSD when I hit the i-button on the remote! Very cool!


I am looking forward to see this skin growing! I am waiting the next update!

thanks
1. Really? Can you post a screenshot?
2. Thats a problem with the different languages. Don´t know how this could be fixed. i could use a fadelabel, so that the text is scrolling if it is longer than the screen. Would that help?
3. I want this skin to be as easy to use AND easy to read as possible. so i deceided to go with only 6 lines. Personally i think this is enough. Do you really need (and i mean NEED) more lines? I dont want to offend you. I just want to understand why more lines are better. i think more lines are more confusing.
4. I like it too

This skin will grow. I have big plans with it

well, I am pretty stumped with that fadelabel thing. I did change however the width of that fadelabel control, it is found in common.window.xml. I changed the width to 1250 so basically it will take the width of the whole screen. My question I guess would be are there any windows that this would cause problems with? I haven't seen any yet, but only time will tell I guess. Anyways with a wider fadelabel it won't have to go in scroll mode as often, so that means less items are cut off, but I am still hoping to find a fix for it though.

EDIT:
So i figured out that if I change the font of the fadelabel to font16 instead of font28, there aren't any problems, but then the text is smaller. I wonder why it would cut off like that at a larger font size.

Found another layout issue. it is when you are viewing the imdb info of a video the spincontrol for the images is overlapping so moved its position to 630 instead of 600. It is a bit better. Also the pictures are out of proportion, and that is easy enough to fix just takes a little effort. Maybe I will get to it...lol. Oh yea that spincontrol is in the file DialogVideoInfo.xml.

If the fadelabel is that long it will cause problems (overlapping) with the little "now playing info" on the bottom left.
The thing with the cut-off label is real strange. If you find a solution i would be happy! I tried several things too - without luck. Hmmm. Could it be a problem with the font? Will check this this weekend...

Thanks for the info on the IMDB Info. will fix this. Thanks.

At the moment i collect all your reports, bugs and suggestions. I have a lot of work (in real life ) to do, but i think i will have time on the weekend.

A new version will come when enough bugs are fixed and this justifies a new version. I don´t want to release every few days something new. Every version has to be much more better, i think. Hope its OK for yall.

Cheers


nanogod

 

[ammmze]

Found another bug in Moving Pictures...
when the title is long, it fades off the right side but doesn't scroll the text, and the text is all shifted left as if it all fit there. not sure if that makes sense. See attached picture. Anyways it just needs to be changed to a fadelabel instead of just a label. But the fadelabel still gets it bottom chopped off.

Oh I tried a different font for the fadelabel and it didn't seem to make a difference. So that wasn't it. Hopefully we will get it figured out.

 

[MdFolter]

NanoGOD,

3. I want this skin to be as easy to use AND easy to read as possible. so i deceided to go with only 6 lines. Personally i think this is enough. Do you really need (and i mean NEED) more lines? I dont want to offend you. I just want to understand why more lines are better. i think more lines are more confusing.

I personally think 10 lines show provides better overview. In blue3wide I have 10 lines or so. In holland we have like 10 national channels, that's why 10.
Maybe it is possible to have a folder in the zip with the replacement file for the people, read: naggers, that like 10 lines.

I will look for screenshots later!

thanks!
Marcel

 

[petrovice]

ammmze
I like your effort Maybe you can take a look at MyRecordings issue. Nanogod has no clue why it doesn´t work.

@MPEI Pro´s
Can someone please take a look at this?
deploy-custom-weather-images
I wanna make a installer for theatre, but the deployment/backup of the weather folder seems to be impossible.

nanogod
I have found two new bugs:
- Crop settings window in TV has no background
- "Alert me" window in TV does not show up

Keep up the good work!

Peter

 

[Fafnir]

Triangle problem solved!

The Triangle problem is something strange. I will see what i can do. Maybe it is a problem due to upscaling? Can someone confirm?

Hello nanogod!
There is an easy workaround for the triangle problem

Each user of your skin who meets the problem should do as follows:
- Close MP (which surely runs the whole day ;-)) & Start Configuration.exe
- Go to plug ins section, right click on plug in "Home"
- Disable "Fix scoll bar", ok
- Close Configuration.exe, ok
- Start MP, go to home screen and press ONCE the down arrow
- Close MP again and open Configuration.exe and enable "Fix scroll bar"

It worked for me. After that the misalignment of the triangle and the selected item should be fixed.

Please let me know if it worked!

 

[ammmze]

The Triangle problem is something strange. I will see what i can do. Maybe it is a problem due to upscaling? Can someone confirm?

Hello nanogod!
There is an easy workaround for the triangle problem

Each user of your skin who meets the problem should do as follows:
- Close MP (which surely runs the whole day ;-)) & Start Configuration.exe
- Go to plug ins section, right click on plug in "Home"
- Disable "Fix scoll bar", ok
- Close Configuration.exe, ok
- Start MP, go to home screen and press ONCE the down arrow
- Close MP again and open Configuration.exe and enable "Fix scroll bar"

It worked for me. After that the misalignment of the triangle and the selected item should be fixed.

Please let me know if it worked!

Nice find! on my install it was already disabled, so I had first enable fix scroll bar load mediaportal. close mediaportal, then disable fix scroll bar, then load mediaportal again line up the menu item and the triangle. close mediaportal then enable fix scroll bar. then i loaded it up and it worked. Yay!

Now lets see if I can figure out My Recordings. I haven't used the recording yet on mediaportal, so currently I don't know what the issue is, but I will see if I can find it.

 

[nanogod]

@ammmze

@nanogod
I have found two new bugs:
- Crop settings window in TV has no background
- "Alert me" window in TV does not show up

Keep up the good work!

Peter

Thanks Peter, is in my bug-fix-list (its getting longer and longer... )

Hello nanogod!
There is an easy workaround for the triangle problem

Each user of your skin who meets the problem should do as follows:
- Close MP (which surely runs the whole day ;-)) & Start Configuration.exe
- Go to plug ins section, right click on plug in "Home"
- Disable "Fix scoll bar", ok
- Close Configuration.exe, ok
- Start MP, go to home screen and press ONCE the down arrow
- Close MP again and open Configuration.exe and enable "Fix scroll bar"

It worked for me. After that the misalignment of the triangle and the selected item should be fixed.

Please let me know if it worked!

Hey, seems to work! Thanks! Although i never had this problem, a lot of people seem to "suffer" from this.
I have an idea, how to permanently solve this. Let me try something over the weekend, and let me see if it works.

Now lets see if I can figure out My Recordings. I haven't used the recording yet on mediaportal, so currently I don't know what the issue is, but I will see if I can find it.

Great ammmze (how to pronounce this... just curious... )!
Really appreciated!
When there is no solution, i will start all over again with myrecordings from scratch (with blue3wide as a basis...).
Last trick if nothing helps anymore... Hehe.

Again: thanks for all the feedback, very constructive and helpful


nanogod

 

[ammmze]

Great ammmze (how to pronounce this... just curious... )!
Really appreciated!
When there is no solution, i will start all over again with myrecordings from scratch (with blue3wide as a basis...).
Last trick if nothing helps anymore... Hehe.

Again: thanks for all the feedback, very constructive and helpful


nanogod

i pronounce it am-z

So after playing with my recordings, is the issue that we are talking about is it that the left action menu doesn't come up when you push the left button? I am pretty new to the recordings here.

 

[MdFolter]

NanoGOD,

I have added screenshots on page 4! Please have a look, and I hope you can fix these!

Thanks!
Marcel

 

[ammmze]

okay so if the issue with the tv recordings is the action menu not coming up i found the problem, it actually lies in the common.facade.xml
under the listcontrol element it is missing the onleft and onright tags. so i added them to my xml and it works perfectly.

anyways let me know if that is not the only bug. currently that is the only one i saw.

oh yea and about that fadelabel for videos going all the way across the screen, i just added a second control one only goes part way across the other goes all the way and then just added another visible condition so that when there is media in the player it will use the short label and when there isn't media in the player it will span the text across the whole screen. seems to work pretty nicely.

I also changed the size of the thumbnails in filmstrip view of moving pictures. I am not very familiar with the facade views tags so hopefully it is all okay. anyways i attached a zip file with a couple of the xml's i have changed. i think the only changes in these xmls are the width of the fadelabels for videos and moving pictures and the size of filmstrip thumbs in moving pictures, then also the changes for tv recordings so that the action menu shows up when you push left or right.

Is the weather plugin working for anyone? I get some XOAP error. Not sure what that is yet, guess I will have to check out the xml.