TITANIUS 1.7.0.0 (18-07-2015) Now with a fresh new look! (1 Viewer)

[mr viggo]

Another thing that I thought about...

When the facade for latest films/series is fucused, perhaps edit the onup/ondown to return focus to the mopi/series button again instead of ending somewhere else

 

[mr viggo]

Sorry, it was my fault. I edited the last version of that perticular xml-file and it didn't get updated with "this" update so I uninstalled, manually deleted a few files, and reinstalled.

Everything fine now

 

[mr viggo]

I couldn't help myself, did a little tweaking with the facades for series and movingpics. If anyone is interested.


Use at own risk

 

[mhoogenbosch]

As you can see, the 'Genre' isn't scrolling.

Another thing is the scrolling. At first the text is fine, but if it starts to scroll, sometimes it lays over the 'voeg toe aan kijklijst', same goes for the top of the text, sometimes it scrolls over 'acteurs'.

Am I making sense? If not i could try and explain more.

 

[powermarcel10]

1. I have modified my Basic Home pages in Titan and I have done the same with TITANIUS. In my page 1 I have switched Pictures and Radio positions, you said in your update version1.1.01 that you had switched them, I never saw that in your downloads (1.1.0.4). (See Jpeg 1). As a result of this switch, I noticed the hovers did not switch and are out of position, How can I correct that.

The hover images are stored in BasicHome.BackgroundSelected.xml amd BasicHome.FanartSelected.xml (the first one if you use 'default' hovers, and the latest one when you have selected 'Fanart Handler' in settings configuration. So you need to change the ID's in that file aswell.. If you can't get it done, let me know!

2. I really want to get rid of OnLine Videos from page 1 and move it to the Extensions position in page 2 and keep Extensions in Home Plugins only. (See Online Videos button Jpeg 2). So can you tell me how to do that. I don't want to disable Online Videos to get Pictures. I hope you can follow what I'm trying to do.

Please use the file attached.. this will replace extensions into OnlineVideos.. Only things you need to change in the file the buttonimage, the label, and the hyperlink.. It's really easy! (to be sure; I did this allready for you)

3. Count me in for testing as I have aquired some skills in modifying XML files.

Will do that for next test cyclus! Thanks!

 

[powermarcel10]

Anyway, I have some things:
1. (a rather small and maybe silly one, but as you I'm a perfectionist): You changed the font color of the RSS-feed into white - why? By browsing the skin gallery I noticed that basichome is now the only screen where the button panel font color is white. In Moving pictures, TV series, TV section etc. all texts in the blue button panel are still black, so I think it's somehow a break to the other sections to define the RSS-font color white in basichome, don't you think?

I agree with you that it is not 100% consistent, however, I like it this way.. Don't know why! But if you want to change it, you need to change the fontcolor of RSS items in basichome..

2. You wrote a great howto on designing your own basichome buttons. By reading this a bug/feature (I'm not sure what it is) came to my mind, which annoyed me somehow since the beginning of Titan: why are the basichome buttons defined by default in TV, Music, Movies (either Moving Pictures or Videos or whatever plugin), Radio, etc.? Honestly, I don't really get it. Why is it not only button 1 (screen 1, top left), button 2 (screen 1, top middle), ... button 12 (screen 2, bottom right)? This would make customization and editing much more flexible I think, because everyone uses a different set of plugins and wants to place these plugins in a different way on his homescreen.
For better illustration what I mean: At the moment customization works like this: "I want the steam button in the top middle -> The top middle button originally was defined as TV button -> I use the TV button for my Steam plugin -> I have to rename the steambutton-graphic-file to basichome_button_tv.png" - with the flexible way it would work like this: "I want the steam button in the top middle -> I change the name of the graphic into basichome_button_2.png". This even gets worse when trying to edit the submenus: all .xml-comments and descriptions always refer to the section the button links to, and not to the button itself, which is completely illogical to my mind and makes editing really hard - when I want to use the top right button for music and want to edit the button's submenu, it would be much more helpful to label the section in the .xml-file "submenu for button 3 which overlays button 1 and 2" instead of "Movies submenu". Do you understand what I mean?

I agree that this would be a bit easier for modders, but that's not where the skin is ment for in the first place.. I kept it as I didn't saw it as a real problem, AND because I want to change that whole thing later when I want to include an inbuild basichome editor into TITANIUS. Than thing will look like;

      <control>
          <id>330102</id>
          <type>button</type>
          <posX>142</posX>
          <posY>#main.posy.image</posY>
          <height>271</height>
          <width>371</width>
          <label>-</label>
          <textureFocus></textureFocus>
          <textureNoFocus></textureNoFocus>
      <hyperlink>#(string.format('{0}.hyperlink',#skin.pos.2))</hyperlink>
      <onleft>990002</onleft>
      <onright>990003</onright>
      <onup>990002</onup>
      <ondown>990003</ondown>
      </control>

Where every value is stored in another skinfile that can be changed inside MediaPortal GUI.. But this will be a project that will take some months, so don't expect anything like this really soon..

3. What happened to the one-screen (2x5 tiles) theme in Titanius v1.3? I personally would prefer this one to the 2-screen-standard, but unfortunately I didn't see any screenshots or any word about it in the release notes. Is it still in development?

Didn't made progress with that theme yet.. I need to find some time to finish that theme.. I personally preffer the default 2X 6 theme, so I have finished that one first.. Now it jst a matter of polishing last things..

I think I will build my new machine this weekend and I will try out Titanius and give you feedback. E.g. it seems that nobody uses an LCD display with minidisplay-plugin, as there were a lot of bugs in original Titan - so let's fix them in Titanius finally...

I'm using a 7" touchscreen on my case (Moneual 932) using the MPDisplay++ plugin, so I can't help you with that one!

 

[powermarcel10]

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Another thing that I thought about...

When the facade for latest films/series is fucused, perhaps edit the onup/ondown to return focus to the mopi/series button again instead of ending somewhere else

In my opinion it make more sense to go to games/pictures when you play in the facade menu of MovingPictures, as that is the button down the latest added movies.. But that's a personal thing..

I have tried you mod and it is working fine, however, I think it's ugly that the first movie cover slides in from the side of the screen (on the left).

 

[powermarcel10]

As you can see, the 'Genre' isn't scrolling.

Another thing is the scrolling. At first the text is fine, but if it starts to scroll, sometimes it lays over the 'voeg toe aan kijklijst', same goes for the top of the text, sometimes it scrolls over 'acteurs'.

Am I making sense? If not i could try and explain more.

Thanks, fixed it allready.. I wait a few more days to see if I receive more bugreports.. I think I will upload a new version somewhere next week!

But if you can't wait, please use the file attached and report if it works..

 

[mhoogenbosch]

Super!

Could you also post the feature request list, or your to do list? So people know what you are still planning to do? Should reduce the requests

One more thing, I didn't notice this untill this version, but with moving pictures if i go to 'alle films' (or all movies) from the home menu, i'm only seeing films i haven't watched yet.

Now i have to go to the categories list, select all movies to select a film for my son (sees the same movies over and over again).

Is this normal behavior? And can i easely alter this behavior? Because i would like the 'alle films' go to all movies.

 

[powermarcel10]

Super!

Could you also post the feature request list, or your to do list? So people know what you are still planning to do? Should reduce the requests

One more thing, I didn't notice this untill this version, but with moving pictures if i go to 'alle films' (or all movies) from the home menu, i'm only seeing films i haven't watched yet.

Now i have to go to the categories list, select all movies to select a film for my son (sees the same movies over and over again).

Is this normal behavior? And can i easely alter this behavior? Because i would like the 'alle films' go to all movies.

Thanks, need to find out what's going on there, but you're right.. Now I know why I don't see all my movies (LOL)

A bugtracker or something like that is a great idea.. Was thinking about that allready, but need to find a proper way to intergrate it.. So stay tuned!

Cheers,
Marcel