Titan Skin modification: a simple start (1 Viewer)

[karhill]

Perhaps someone can point me in the right direction. I just want to make a few simple changes to the Basic home screen in Titan.

Basically:
1) I want to eliminate the TV submenus. Hitting the TV button (people on a couch) should go directly to the TV home page (e.g the first submenu option, TV).
2) I want to eliminate some other top-level buttons, like MUSIC, SETINGS, Empty Plugin buttons.

I assume these changes are probably fairly simple. Can someone point me in the right direction to get started?

Thanks.

 

[powermarcel10]

Hi,

this is not possible at this moment. We are all waiting for a 'basichome editor' as you can read here: Click!

For now you have to modify the xml skin files your self, but that requires some skills..

Cheers

 

[karhill]

Ah, yes, I see there are plans for an editor.

If I wanted to hack with the xml, which xml file(s) would I start with?

Thanks.

 

[powermarcel10]

Well, there are a lot.. But to start you could check BasicHome.xml in C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\Titan and all other basichome related xml files..

Best thing you can do is to copy the files you have changed to one of the theme folders; C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\Titan\Themes and select the right theme in Mediaportal.

Than you can't messup your installation.

 

[karhill]

Great. I'll give that a shot and see if I can grok the xml.

 

[Holzi]

1) I want to eliminate the TV submenus. Hitting the TV button (people on a couch) should go directly to the TV home page (e.g the first submenu option, TV).

You have to look for include.BasicHomeButton.movingpictures.xml in C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\Titan.
There you should replace <onclick>#(skin.setfocus(35,1100))</onclick> with <hyperlink>96742</hyperlink>

If you wanna also get rid of the submenu indicator delete this part from the above mentioned xml:

<control>
	  <description>submenu indicator</description>
	  <id>0</id>
	  <type>image</type>
	  <posX>1818</posX>
	  <posY>557</posY>
	  <width>22</width>
	  <height>20</height>
	  <texture>basichome_submenu_indicator.png</texture>
			<visible>![Control.IsVisible(100)|Control.IsVisible(2000)|Control.IsVisible(3000)|control.hasfocus(1000)|control.hasfocus(1001)|control.hasfocus(1002)|control.hasfocus(1003)|control.hasfocus(1004)|control.HasFocus(200) | control.HasFocus(300) | control.HasFocus(400) | control.HasFocus(500) | control.HasFocus(600) | control.HasFocus(700)]</visible>
	  <animation effect="zoom" start="100,100" end="102,102" time="200" condition="control.hasfocus(4)">conditional</animation>
		<animation effect="fade" time="250">WindowOpen</animation>
		<animation effect="fade" time="150">WindowClose</animation>
	</control>

 

[karhill]

Holzi:

Thanks a ton for that detailed information. Without those comments I would have had a hard time parsing it all. With that help, it was very easy to make the changes I desired.

What I wanted to do was a little different that what you described, but your help was invaluable.

I have modified the Titan basic home skin in the following ways:
1) Clicking on the TV button (people sitting on couch) goes directly to the main TV screen, rather than the submenus on the main screen.
2) I eliminated close/shutdown/restart actions from the main screen.


1) To modify the Titan skin so that the basic home TV button (people sitting on a couch) goes directly to the TV screen, rather than the submenu, change:
a. Basichome.xml.
Change the xml for the control with the description "BasicHome TV". Change "<onclick>#(skin.setfocus(35,1000))</onclick>" to "<hyperlink>1</hyperlink>"
The 1 is the ID of the window that you want to hyperlink to. In this case, 1 is ID of the window described in mytvhomeServer.xml
2) To modify the Titan skin so that the close/shutdown/restart actions are eliminated from the main menu:
a. Basichome.exitmenu.xml
Remove the controls starting at the control with the description "exit menu" and remove through (including) the control with the description "Exit label".

 

[sleepycol]

1) I want to eliminate the TV submenus. Hitting the TV button (people on a couch) should go directly to the TV home page (e.g the first submenu option, TV).

You have to look for include.BasicHomeButton.movingpictures.xml in C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\Titan.
There you should replace <onclick>#(skin.setfocus(35,1100))</onclick> with <hyperlink>96742</hyperlink>

If you wanna also get rid of the submenu indicator delete this part from the above mentioned xml:

<control>
	  <description>submenu indicator</description>
	  <id>0</id>
	  <type>image</type>
	  <posX>1818</posX>
	  <posY>557</posY>
	  <width>22</width>
	  <height>20</height>
	  <texture>basichome_submenu_indicator.png</texture>
			<visible>![Control.IsVisible(100)|Control.IsVisible(2000)|Control.IsVisible(3000)|control.hasfocus(1000)|control.hasfocus(1001)|control.hasfocus(1002)|control.hasfocus(1003)|control.hasfocus(1004)|control.HasFocus(200) | control.HasFocus(300) | control.HasFocus(400) | control.HasFocus(500) | control.HasFocus(600) | control.HasFocus(700)]</visible>
	  <animation effect="zoom" start="100,100" end="102,102" time="200" condition="control.hasfocus(4)">conditional</animation>
		<animation effect="fade" time="250">WindowOpen</animation>
		<animation effect="fade" time="150">WindowClose</animation>
	</control>

Works perfectly, so much cleaner looking now. Thank you!!!! I've been desperate to get rid of the sub menus for ages now.