Better Plug-in support with all Skins

[Lajoie]

Hi,

I must admit that I haven't look at how exactly the skin have been implemented but I found it inacceptable (sorry, I could not found a more appropriated word to describe my feeling) that a plug-in would not work at all if not skinned by the selected skin.

I think that there should be a default skin which all plug-in must implement and that should be used if no definition is provided by the selected skin.

I am thinking of some sort of inheritance with the Main Skin at its root, and family of skins below it....

I guess that with that kind of system, even if a skin have not be designed specifically with some plug-in in mind, they would still work (maybe not optimally, but at least without resorting to exceptions).

Just my 2 cents...

[sub]

Something like this is implemented for the next release. See discussion here: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=12455

It will require a few lines of code to be changed in the plugins before said plugin will be able to use this new functionality though. Hopefully the developers make these changes reasonably quickly after the next release.

The plugins are already required to implement support for the 'blue' skin, which is the system default.

[groover km]

Sub, I think that is a very good idea in the next release; having all skins call the blue default skin for any unskinned plugin would have saved me many headaches in the early days...