Using Shadow command will not show animation? (1 Viewer)

[stdly]

I am trying to use the shadow affect instead of using 2 text labels offset, to save resources but have never got animation to work with the shadow commands below. The animation command works with the label but not with the shadow.
Am I doing something wrong or will this not work?

    <control>
      <description>text label</description>
      <type>label</type>
      <id>1</id>
      <posX>150</posX>
      <posY>460</posY>
      <label>Ratio : </label>
      <align>right</align>
      <textcolor>ffffffff</textcolor>
      <shadowAngle>45</shadowAngle>
      <shadowDistance>1</shadowDistance>
      <shadowColor>FF000000</shadowColor>
      <animation effect="fade" time="300">WindowOpen</animation>
      <animation effect="fade" time="300">WindowClose</animation>	  
    </control>

Steve

 

[SilentException]

You're doing it correctly, it's a bug in MediaPortal.

It's fixed in 1.2

 

[catavolt]

AW: Using Shadow command will not show animation?

There are some problems with shadows atm. I will check with the devs the next weeks

 

[stdly]

Thanks allot guys maybe I'll give 1.2 a try!
I just finished going through all my skin files and replacing all the shadow commands for dual offset text @ all animations. I guess I will be going back to change it to the shadow command soon.
Steve

 

[stdly]

Now I think more about this will it actual save resources when all is in place (shadow commands and the animation effect) compared to double offset text? I believe this was the reason for implementing it into MP and ease of code.

Is this a bug report and should I start a post somewhere else as a bug?
Steve

 

[ajp8164]

Now I think more about this will it actual save resources when all is in place (shadow commands and the animation effect) compared to double offset text? I believe this was the reason for implementing it into MP and ease of code.

Is this a bug report and should I start a post somewhere else as a bug?
Steve

Using the shadow feature (tags) will definitely save resources over using double-drawn text. Drawing of shadows occurs at a very low level in the skin engine and does not include the need to separately create and manage a second skin control (as you do when you create your own shadows with multiple labels). Creation of a second skinc ontrol for the shadow puts alot of overhead on the window manager (CPU/GPU cycles and memory consumption).