1.4.x Titan - Pulse8 Theme (4 Viewers)

[Andrew Rogerson]

Can you tell me whats going on here with the moving pictures button overlay? Happening on 2 separate computers.

Also, how can I get the weather plugin on the bottom right slot of the 1st page? (or change any order for that matter?)

Thanks

 

[GaryMartynUK]

Andrew,

My apologies. When I moved the TV and TV Series buttons around I forgot to update which hides when the Moving Pictures submenu is displayed. I will fix that now and upload an update later this evening. Thanks for pointing it out.

As for the Weather plugin, I coded 'World Weather Lite' support into the skin, but not the full World Weather plug-in. When I made the skin the full World Weather plugin had not been officially released with Titan support so I used the one that was supported.

You can easily install World Weather Lite through the MP Extensions installer. If you have World Weather already you will need to uninstall that as you can only have one of them.


EDIT : Sorry just re-read your post and realised you were asking how to get it on the first page! That is not currently coded in to the XML files, but I'll have a look into that.


Edit 2 : OK, all done now. Version 1.1.4 is available on the first post of this thread. It now includes a number of fixes for MovingPictures (submenu should now work properly and the submenu indicator was all over the place... not sure how I missed that!)

I have also included all the code needed to put Weather in the bottom right button of the main screen. This will be automatic if you have World Weather Lite installed and NOT Trakt or MPSteam. If Trakt for MPSteam are enabled they will take this button and weather will revert to the second screen.

Hope this does all you are looking for.

 

[Andrew Rogerson]

Top man!

Wish most of my work ICT issues were solved this quick.


Trying to sell my house for 18 months, can you sort that for me too please!

 

[GaryMartynUK]

OK so for anyone who is interested I've put Version 2 of these themes on the first post. This includes the rest of my 'to-do' list of features I wanted. There are some other things I could do, but nothing pressing.

Version 2 contains a lot of updates, but mainly it focuses on....

• Full integration of Clear Art, Clear Logos and Disc cover Art - This now works for Music, My Videos, Moving Pictures and MP-TVSeries
• Updated now playing overlay (darker than the pale silver one in Titan, more like the black background panels on other screens)
• Properly implemented a feature to hide and show the details panel in the RockStar plugin (finally figured out how to do it without the panel getting messed up when you reveal the content again)
• Properly implemented a feature to hide and show ALL movie information in MyVideos so that you can see the fanart. Clicking left from any menu option will hide everything except the Now Playing and page titles at the top of the screen. The click any direction and they come back
• A whole pile of little tweaks around visuals

Thanks to Game_Dude who gave me the base info and files for Clear Art, I've now worked this through most screens where is makes sense.

 

[Game_dude]

Thanks man! Glad I could be of some help

 

[GaryMartynUK]

Thanks man! Glad I could be of some help

I also re-did the Hyperspin patch for V2 of the skin files in case you wanted to give them a go. It is in an attachment on the 1st post. Just put V2 in and then unzip the Hyperspin patch files over the top.

 

[Game_dude]

Sweet, thanks! I noticed. I grabbed all of the updated files. Actually (so some are not confused) Hyperspin isn't a plugin. It's an emulator front end. I use the awesome Multi-shortcut plugin to launch. Though I'm sure you already knew that

 

[Brudertac]

Thanks for the Update!

How can i edit the Submenu Items for TV?
In German the "Records" Item is called "Fernsehen Aufnahmen" - that sounds weird
I would like to change that just to "Aufnahmen"


(In the Screenshot it is also active just to show what i mean.)

 

[GaryMartynUK]

Brudertac,

"Fernsehen Aufnahmen" is the default name coded into Titan and is the result of combining 2 parts of strings held in the German Language files. So it is probably not easy to change both labels in the language files to make a better label for recorded TV as you would probably make two other labels not make sense anymore.

However it is very easy to hard code an alternative in the xml files for the Pulse8 / Pulse Hex skins (so as long as you don't switch languages in MePo this would be OK)

In the Skin directory C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\Titan\Themes\Pulse 8 Cherry (or dark cherry) open the BasicHome.submenus.xml in Notepad and look for where it says
<label>#(L(100001)) #(L(914))</label>

Then Change it to
<label>WHATEVER TEXT YOU WANT</label>

This will now show in the submenu as whatever you put between the <label></label> tags, but is now hard coded, so if you change the MePo language that one menu line will then remain unchanged.

 

[Brudertac]

Ah, so in the original TITAN Theme, they have hardcoded this too? Because there it is called "Aufnahmen".

But, hardcoding is not the Problem because there is no need for me to change the Language. Thanks for that hint!

EDIT:

I have looked into the original TITAN File and found that they use "<label>914</label>" for this Submenu. With that in your Theme File it works great.