The time has come! We start our skinning competition for MediaPortal 2. Everyone can take part, either alone or in a group.
Those are the conditions:
- The outcome has to be either a skin (based on the navigation concept which is currently implemented in MP2) or a new navigation concept (maybe with a skin prototype or some drawings).
- You can ask questions if something is not clear but before doing so, you have to look into our Wiki to make sure the question is not already answered there.
- The best possible outcome would be a nice, complete and coherent navigation concept together with a skin which covers almost all screens that are currently implemented in the default skin. That skin should also look good for plugins that only provide skin files for the default skin.
- Communication during the competition should be done via our MP 2 development forums.
- The competition will end at November, 26th.
To create a new „skin“, in this context it is enough to just create own template files (master.xaml, master_menu.xaml, master_dialog.xaml) together with one or two well-looking themes. The new skin should be contained in its own plugin. That plugin might also contain localization resources, pictures and/or code in dlls.
To take part, it is necessary to have a current, runnable instance of MediaPortal 2. You should check out the sources from our SVN trunk and build them with Visual Studio 2008. That way, it is easy to look into the code of the SkinEngine controls, if necessary. It is also possible to work without Visual Studio 2008 and compile an MP2 instance via the build commands in the Build directory.
Our Wiki describes how it works to create plugins and skins for MP2.
We're happy to see preliminary results, either as complete MP2 plugins or as a screenshot here in this thread.
Have fun!
Those are the conditions:
- The outcome has to be either a skin (based on the navigation concept which is currently implemented in MP2) or a new navigation concept (maybe with a skin prototype or some drawings).
- You can ask questions if something is not clear but before doing so, you have to look into our Wiki to make sure the question is not already answered there.
- The best possible outcome would be a nice, complete and coherent navigation concept together with a skin which covers almost all screens that are currently implemented in the default skin. That skin should also look good for plugins that only provide skin files for the default skin.
- Communication during the competition should be done via our MP 2 development forums.
- The competition will end at November, 26th.
To create a new „skin“, in this context it is enough to just create own template files (master.xaml, master_menu.xaml, master_dialog.xaml) together with one or two well-looking themes. The new skin should be contained in its own plugin. That plugin might also contain localization resources, pictures and/or code in dlls.
To take part, it is necessary to have a current, runnable instance of MediaPortal 2. You should check out the sources from our SVN trunk and build them with Visual Studio 2008. That way, it is easy to look into the code of the SkinEngine controls, if necessary. It is also possible to work without Visual Studio 2008 and compile an MP2 instance via the build commands in the Build directory.
Our Wiki describes how it works to create plugins and skins for MP2.
We're happy to see preliminary results, either as complete MP2 plugins or as a screenshot here in this thread.
Have fun!