TV Guide date location

[Bobins]

Guys,

I'm new to skin editing (although I was a programmer years ago ).

I've removed the channel name in the Community3 TV guide skin and reduced it to Icon only. I now want to move the "listing date" off the timeline in the TV guide so I can move the whole guide left to close the gap where the channel name was and allow me to increase the timeline.

I can see how to remove the "listing date" but I thought it would be easy to put it somewhere else on the top of the screen .

When I create a position and Compositeimage for the date, instead of the date I get "@visibleDate2" in text on the screen.

The line I used is :- <DrawText text="@visibleDate2" loc="0,5" size="25,90" textStyle="TimelineStyle" align="Center" valign="center"/>

Is what I'm trying possible or can you only use the "@visibleDate2" definition within the "Timeline" CompositeImage?

Any help appreciated

P.S. Has anyone created any guide to Skin programming syntax/rules etc?

[Fatman_do]

Guys,

I'm new to skin editing (although I was a programmer years ago ).

I've removed the channel name in the Community3 TV guide skin and reduced it to Icon only. I now want to move the "listing date" off the timeline in the TV guide so I can move the whole guide left to close the gap where the channel name was and allow me to increase the timeline.

I can see how to remove the "listing date" but I thought it would be easy to put it somewhere else on the top of the screen .

When I create a position and Compositeimage for the date, instead of the date I get "@visibleDate2" in text on the screen.

The line I used is :- <DrawText text="@visibleDate2" loc="0,5" size="25,90" textStyle="TimelineStyle" align="Center" valign="center"/>

Is what I'm trying possible or can you only use the "@visibleDate2" definition within the "Timeline" CompositeImage?

Any help appreciated

P.S. Has anyone created any guide to Skin programming syntax/rules etc?

You can only use what is within the timeline composite image. You cannot create CompositeImgage declarations in the skin, they have to pre-exsist.

I did some skinning tutorials, but it sounds like you get the idea otherwise. I am a former programmer from my Highschool days and have not tried in about 20 years, but of for me, xml tweaking came naturally. Pretty much everything is defined and you just have to move it around or change its structure.

For xml editing I use Notepad++ with an xml syntax checker (search forum for my post if interested).

[Bobins]

OK. I'll just have to have a go at re-arranging the timeline then.

Thanks for your help