3-line view in Recordings

[daneo]

I have a number of shows that I want to have manually imported into the Recordings rather than Video Library. The MpegImport tool is great here, but often the sub-title of the show (really, the important bit) is only visible when you drop into a line.



I'd like to see either a three-line view of recordings
- Name
- Subtitle
- Details

Or the option that if you have a "Category" of recordings with the same name, then when you drop into it (see screen show below) that the Title is dropped and the subtitle only is shown.



Thanks,
Dane

[Fatman_do]

Maybe a quick fix for you is to have the secondary view show only subtitles instead of the title.

In the recordings skin.xml file , find these lines:

Code:

<CompositeImage name="DetailsViewNormalItem" size="500,50">
   <DrawImage filename="..\_CoreImages\ListDetail_Normal.png" loc="0,1" size="500,47"/>
   <!-- DrawRoundedRect loc="3,3" size="494,43" radius="5" borderWidth="2" borderColor="LightGray" fillColor="Transparent"/ -->
   <DrawText text="[color=Red][B]@title[/B][/color]" loc="10,6" size="390,25" textStyle="DetailsViewItemsTitle" align="Left"/>
   <DrawText text="@status" loc="385,6" size="105,25" textStyle="@status" align="Right"/>
   <DrawText text="@period" loc="10,25" size="350,25" textStyle="DetailsViewFolders" align="Left"/>
   <DrawText text="@channel" loc="0,25" size="490,25" textStyle="DetailsViewFolders" align="Right"/>
</CompositeImage>            
        
<CompositeImage name="DetailsViewSelectedItem" size="500,50">
   <DrawImage filename="..\_CoreImages\ListDetail_Selected.png" loc="0,1" size="500,47"/>
   <!-- DrawRoundedRect loc="3,3" size="494,43" radius="5" borderWidth="6" borderColor="LightGray" fillColor="DarkGreen"/ -->
   <DrawText text="[color=Red][B]@title[/B][/color]" loc="10,6" size="390,25" textStyle="DetailsViewItemsTitle" align="Left"/>
   <DrawText text="@status" loc="385,6" size="105,25" textStyle="@status" align="Right"/>
   <DrawText text="@period" loc="10,25" size="350,25" textStyle="DetailsViewFolders" align="Left"/>
   <DrawText text="@channel" loc="0,25" size="490,25" textStyle="DetailsViewFolders" align="Right"/>
</CompositeImage>

And change the highlighted words above with the ones below:

Code:

<CompositeImage name="DetailsViewNormalItem" size="500,50">
   <DrawImage filename="..\_CoreImages\ListDetail_Normal.png" loc="0,1" size="500,47"/>
   <!-- DrawRoundedRect loc="3,3" size="494,43" radius="5" borderWidth="2" borderColor="LightGray" fillColor="Transparent"/ -->
   <DrawText text="[color=Red][B]@subtitle[/B][/color]" loc="10,6" size="390,25" textStyle="DetailsViewItemsTitle" align="Left"/>
   <DrawText text="@status" loc="385,6" size="105,25" textStyle="@status" align="Right"/>
   <DrawText text="@period" loc="10,25" size="350,25" textStyle="DetailsViewFolders" align="Left"/>
   <DrawText text="@channel" loc="0,25" size="490,25" textStyle="DetailsViewFolders" align="Right"/>
</CompositeImage>            
        
<CompositeImage name="DetailsViewSelectedItem" size="500,50">
   <DrawImage filename="..\_CoreImages\ListDetail_Selected.png" loc="0,1" size="500,47"/>
   <!-- DrawRoundedRect loc="3,3" size="494,43" radius="5" borderWidth="6" borderColor="LightGray" fillColor="DarkGreen"/ -->
   <DrawText text="[color=Red][B]@subtitle[/B][/color]" loc="10,6" size="390,25" textStyle="DetailsViewItemsTitle" align="Left"/>
   <DrawText text="@status" loc="385,6" size="105,25" textStyle="@status" align="Right"/>
   <DrawText text="@period" loc="10,25" size="350,25" textStyle="DetailsViewFolders" align="Left"/>
   <DrawText text="@channel" loc="0,25" size="490,25" textStyle="DetailsViewFolders" align="Right"/>
</CompositeImage>

[sub]

Instead of @title, use @titleSubtitle.

Or if you want, change the skin to show three lines of details about the recording. The default skin uses two lines so we could show a decent number of recordings on the screen at one time, but it's not limited to two lines.