1.4.x Titan - Pulse8 Theme (2 Viewers)

[Game_dude]

Sure! Actually I use Multishortcut to load Hyperspin (Emulator front end) the hyperlink is 8638 for me. I wouldn't mind it replacing TV as I don't use live TV or radio on my HTPC/Desktop. Hmm it's hard choosing a good image. I always liked this one though it might be better suited for the background. Otherwise I use this one (see Uploaded file) Please leave Steam though I do use that


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[GaryMartynUK]

Game_dude,

TV and Radio are two of the buttons coded within the main skin files rather than nice tidy include files, so it is not a tidy hack, but not a difficult one either. I've used the images you sent and hacked about in the skin files a little to replace radio with Hyperspin. Attached is a zip file with 2 XML files and two image files in the media sub directory. Put them in the C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\Titan\Themes\Pulse8 Aqua or Cherry directory and presto you should find it works. I've not got multishort or hyperspin so I can't test that the link works, but I used hyperlink 8638 as you mentioned so hopefully that should do the trick.

Please let me know if it works.

 

[Game_dude]

That seemed to worked perfectly! Thanks for doing that for me. Though TV seems to overlap TV Shows now lol.

 

[GaryMartynUK]

Game_dude,

Sent you a message asking for more info/screen shots. I'll happily look into it if you can give me some more info.

 

[etagure]

Allanp81,

That is a nice easy one to fix. I've updated the submenu indicators so that they scale properly when the buttons are highlighted, but your MePo is using the version it already has cached. In hindsight I should probably have given the new menu indicator's image file a different name to solve the problem. You can fix this in seconds. If you close MePo and then delete the C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Cache\Titan directory (this only contains the cache of image files) and then re-run MePo it will take about 5 seconds longer than normal to load (this time only) as it will re-built the cache. It will then use the new versions rather than the old versions as it has not realised the file has been changed.

The big lines will disappear and you will have the submenu indicator sorted. Perhaps my next challenge is to look at making an installer that will add the new font to the existing fonts.xml file and clear the cache to avoid this sort of problem and save people having to manually place the fonts.xml file.

Note: for above the c:\programdata directory is normally hidden, but if you open and explorer window and type c:\programdata in the top bar it will then pop up just fine.


etagure,

I created the whole skin on 1.5 so it should run. The only reference I make to Tetris is a button on the main menu but there should not be anything looking for a directory with tetris in the name, it simply loads a link to the built-in tetris module. Worst case scenario if you have the tetris plug-in disabled it will load a button which does nothing (I should make it so that the sudoku and tetris buttons load dummy buttons instead if those plug-ins are disabled, but as they are a part of MePo I did not worry about this initially).

Do you have any more information about the error? Or a screen shot at all? I guess it might not stay on the screen long if it is failing to load the theme.

Thinking about it though (and please excuse me if I am asking a silly question) but did you put the files from the zip file into C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\Titan\Themes\ rather than C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\ It could give an error like this if you try to load it as a skin rather than a theme for Titan (it requires the Titan skin as a base to work from) You should see it in the 'Theme' list in the Skin settings screen rather than listed in the skin list.[DOUBLEPOST=1384993805][/DOUBLEPOST]gamedude,

Post an image / link to an image you'd like it to be based on and I'll see what I can do to make the image. Do you just want the image file or do you want an update for the theme to put a functional button on the home menu? If so would you like it in place of MPSteam? or on the 2nd page of buttons?

Ups sorry Im stupid, I put Pulse8 in C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\

 

[TheBatfink]

Is it safe to assume with the 1.4x tag on the post this won't work on 1.5? Nice looking mod

 

[GaryMartynUK]

TheBatfink,

It works fine in 1.5, in fact I made it in 1.5. But there is no tag in the forum for v1.5. Probably because there were no changes to the skin engine between 1.4 and 1.5. so basically any skin that works in 1.4 also works in 1.5 and 1.6 pre-release.

Hope that helps, please try it out and let me know if you have any issues.

 

[Game_dude]

I added in Clear art and logo support to moving pictures, tvseries xml and video osd. I haven't done music yet. But this seemed to work for me.

I basically copied the code from the xml files found here https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ther-icon-on-screen-bugfixes-and-more.117693/ If anyone finds any problems please let me know. Or if you want to help out with this please do

 

[GaryMartynUK]

Game_dude,

Thanks for this, I'll have a good look at it in the next couple of days. Guess I need to figure out what I need to do to download clear art, or is this something FanArt Handler / Latest Media Handler does automatically?

 

[Game_dude]

Np And I use this https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...clearlogos-music-video-clips-and-more.120323/