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<blockquote data-quote="Pewterz" data-source="post: 35132" data-attributes="member: 18160">Hello all,&nbsp;&nbsp; First time caller, long time listener here. I have been using Media Portal for quite a while now and have decided to jump into skinning. I have looked through some of the posts in this forum to gain an understanding in how to build the theme I wish to have but I come up dry. &nbsp;&nbsp; My skin would be a bit different, control wise, than the traditional skin having a list of options on the first screen that a user must scroll through. I wanted to try having a couple of buttons on the first screen, mainly 'My TV', 'Videos', 'Music', 'Pictures' and 'Other'. I do not want these in a scrolling list though, I wanted to place these buttons each on a corner of the screen (My TV in the center of the screen, Videos top left, Pictures top right etc.... while having 'Other' smaller, down at the bottom. The graphics for the buttons may be of different size as well.&nbsp;&nbsp; I downloaded and installed this wonderful Skin editor but am at a loss of how to create buttons that 'do' something. That something could be either starting functionality in Media Portal, or launching an external process.Ok, long post, but here is the question: Where could I find either a guide, or some help in accomplishing this? Wouldn't matter if I could do this in the Skin Editor, or if I would start hacking XML (Would like to learn either).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pewterz, post: 35132, member: 18160"] Hello all, First time caller, long time listener here. I have been using Media Portal for quite a while now and have decided to jump into skinning. I have looked through some of the posts in this forum to gain an understanding in how to build the theme I wish to have but I come up dry. My skin would be a bit different, control wise, than the traditional skin having a list of options on the first screen that a user must scroll through. I wanted to try having a couple of buttons on the first screen, mainly 'My TV', 'Videos', 'Music', 'Pictures' and 'Other'. I do not want these in a scrolling list though, I wanted to place these buttons each on a corner of the screen (My TV in the center of the screen, Videos top left, Pictures top right etc.... while having 'Other' smaller, down at the bottom. The graphics for the buttons may be of different size as well. I downloaded and installed this wonderful Skin editor but am at a loss of how to create buttons that 'do' something. That something could be either starting functionality in Media Portal, or launching an external process. Ok, long post, but here is the question: Where could I find either a guide, or some help in accomplishing this? Wouldn't matter if I could do this in the Skin Editor, or if I would start hacking XML (Would like to learn either). [/QUOTE]

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