Where do these BlueTwo package files come from (1 Viewer)

[MaRuBi]

In the skin directory I noticed some large files. When I opened them
I found they contained all the png of the media folder in some non obvious
layout scheme. After I deleted these nothing is displayed when I try to start MediaPortal 0.2.0.
Can anybody tell me how these files are constructed from the Media folder files.

Thanks in advance!

 

[James]

Hi MaRuBi,

These files are basically a cache of the skin, in a few large files rather then 100s of small ones. This helps speed loading time. These files are automatically generated by MP, when it start if they don't already exist. To get MP to generate them again make sure you have deleted them all (.png and .xml).

Also if you want to make changes to the skin files you need to delete these files before the changes will be loaded into MP.

Cheers,

/James

 

[MaRuBi]

Thanks for the quick reply James.
Do you by any chance know how these files are named exactly?
I think they started with something like pack... but I'm not quite sure.

greetings

MaRuBi

 

[mike_cgn]

this could be the clue I need ...

I started working on a lcras-skin last week, after replacing grafics they wouldn' t change in the actual skin so I already got bored searching.
To important info to not mention!
I'll try to delete abstracts tonight.

Thanks,

Mike

 

[Marcusb]

They are called something like "Packedgfx.png" and also an XML file. If you delete just the png's then I guess you would get the blank screen as the XML file is still telling MP to use the cache, even though it doesn't exist.

To fix this up, delete all pack*.* files, including the XML. MP will recreate them the next time you start. This is also required whenever you change any image files in the skin directory.