Xface Skin Version 1.6 ready for download 09.06.2008 (2 Viewers)

[DarkWader]

You need latest SVN of the TVseries plugin for it to work.

 

[Inker]

i am not at home to test it now but from what i remeber i can get 5 movies in each row and i get 3 rows in every page. Thats by memory. I dont really know if the size of the coverart has something to do with it but i always resize my coverarts to 200x200.

I dont know if it hides the rest of the rows but when you page down they animate and become visible to you.

Hmm, so it would be
XXXXX
XXXXX
XXXXX

but what we'd like is (because the banners are much wider than high)
XXX
XXX
XXX
XXX
XXX

I wonder if there need to be more or equal amount of items per row as there are rows. That would explain why the 4x4/3x3 and your 3x5 grid works. I really don't think it has anything to do with the plugin or the size of the banners. Could a skinner try to create such a grid in a different xml (say my videos or something) and see if it works there?

Edit: BTW the skin is really awesome!!

yes you got that right Inker.

I am not really sure if its on the skinners hands. My guess and this is just a wild guess is on the hands of the MP views. i really dont think that LargeIcons view might work like you like it to work with TVseries.

I think the LargeIcons view was designed to work for coverarts.

Maybe you guys have to go deeper into the code and look how MP does the the LargeIcon View (if you havent already done so) or ask Frodo maybe to elaborate/help more.

My guess is that you will need a new View to make this work Inker.

Hmm, I don't see why a new "view" (If i understand what correctly what you mean by this) is needed at all. The thumbnailpanel (which has small/large icon mode - but we only use the large one) should perfectly allow this (that is display a grid of NxM items). We can skin each item to fit the wide banners perfectly.

I'll see if i can find out more tonight.

OK, it seems more and more like a "bug" or at least a limitation in the thumbnailpanel itself. Here's what I did:
with the xface skin in common.facade.video.xml replace the thumbnailpanel declaration with the following:

<control>
          <description>Thumbnail Panel</description>
          <type>thumbnailpanel</type>
          <id>50</id>
          <posX>90</posX>
          <width>1250</width>
		  <itemWidth>503</itemWidth>
          <font>font12</font>
</control>

This gives you a 3x2 grid (2 items per row, with 3 rows) -> again, more rows than items per row. It too hides the third row, same symptom as in tvseries.

Screenshot below (notice how I selected a folder called "Test" which is in the third row (the row that isn't shown). Can somebody confirm this (clean RC2 build) and if confirmed, could a dev take a look? Thnx

 

[DarkWader]

Inker, How about using the small thumb views? I think I remember to have seen a "icon" view with MANY icons displayed.
It could offcourse have been only 3 rows and many culumns, I dont remember..

Are there any limitations in the size of gfx in smallthumbview?

 

[Inker]

Inker, How about using the small thumb views? I think I remember to have seen a "icon" view with MANY icons displayed.
It could offcourse have been only 3 rows and many culumns, I dont remember..

Are there any limitations in the size of gfx in smallthumbview?

The example above uses the small icons view as you can see from the xml I posted.

 

[felo]

Hi!
So what SVN do you recomend guys?
Hope 1 very stable!
Nice skin, Cheers!

Edit:
Nevermind, i just install last SVN-Snapshot: 10-09-2007 Revision:16156 and work great!
I just whatch TV and Videos, so everything is fine.
Thnks anyway!
Cheers!

 

[Harley]

Hi ,

i have overworked the iconview and bigiconview, because i think the current one does not realy fit to the style of the other views.
So i have do now complete new gfx for that. Hope you like it.

Greetings Harley


PS: ..are the last pages here skin related ? Or is it more something for the mytv series plugin ?
If it is skin related, i will help if i can.

Its realy hard to find out here the post´s that are related for the skinwork.

 

[DarkWader]

Hi ,

i have overworked the iconview and bigiconview, because i think the current one does not realy fit to the style of the other views.
So i have do now complete new gfx for that. Hope you like it.

Greetings Harley


PS: ..are the last pages here skin related ? Or is it more something for the mytv series plugin ?
If it is skin related, i will help if i can.

Its realy hard to find out here the post´s that are related for the skinwork.

This looks great, just dont forget the moviepages aswell
I had to change the white fontcolor to black myself for a quick fix, as the selected item had white gfx...

The Tvseries plugin thingy, seems to be a problem with the thumbviews within the MP code.
Really dunnu about this atm, I will sit down now for a copple hours trying to figure it out..

***EDIT***

Nomatter what I do within the .xml, its impossible to get a thumbpanel with more rows than there is culumns.
It only works with 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 etc...

Frodo, are you reading this thread? If you do, can you make the tumbpanel a little more flexible?
What we want is the possibility to create thumbviews that do 3 rows and 5 culumns, (3x5)

The number of rows and columns should be adjusted automatically by the hight of the panel, and the width of the boxes/item.

 

[pannivas]

Hi ,

i have overworked the iconview and bigiconview, because i think the current one does not realy fit to the style of the other views.
So i have do now complete new gfx for that. Hope you like it.

Greetings Harley


PS: ..are the last pages here skin related ? Or is it more something for the mytv series plugin ?
If it is skin related, i will help if i can.

Its realy hard to find out here the post´s that are related for the skinwork.

hehe page 52 was all about the tvseries plugin.

 

[BuDWiZe]

wow this TV series thing is awesome.
not sure if im using it correctly though but i have icons on far right hand side of the display and a few pics that seem to be in wrong position.
is there a way to get rid of teh icons on bottom right for this skin?

 

[Inker]

Hi ,

i have overworked the iconview and bigiconview, because i think the current one does not realy fit to the style of the other views.
So i have do now complete new gfx for that. Hope you like it.

Greetings Harley


PS: ..are the last pages here skin related ? Or is it more something for the mytv series plugin ?
If it is skin related, i will help if i can.

Its realy hard to find out here the post´s that are related for the skinwork.

I actually think it is skin-engine related (and not "all about the tv-series plugin" - its just that it was there that it was discovered), not specific to this skin but the "bug" (I'm still a bit reluctant to declare it as such) has popped up while working with x-face.

Harley, have you ever been able to create a thumbnailpanel with more rows than columns? Could you try (maybe we're all doing something wrong)?

Thnx