Colour Button Usage Description, Bigger Fonts

[amoeba]

You get this on most PVRs I think, where the GUI will show you what the colour buttons do, i.e. in the Guide;

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| (b) +24 hours (g) -24 hours (y) view  ® auto-record |
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Where b=blue,g=green,y=yellow,r=red. Also make sure the 4 buttons have a use in most screens. I am sure I could trawl through the user instructions to work out what they do, but it would be alot better having this.

Also I have a 28inch tv, but the fonts are too small to see easily. Is there some way to make them bigger. I started using the flat blue hi vis skin whichs helps a little on the menus, but not on the tv guide.

I know you americans (and possibly nz'ers) all have huge 50inch screens, but we brits tend to make do with 28inchs or so.

[reven]

you can do this yourself, just edit the skins so they show the button functions.

[amoeba]

Okay I guess I am asking for a 'big font skin with colour button mappings' then.

But it would also be nice to have the 'button mapping' on the live-tv/playback OSD.

I might give it a go if I get the time - and get GB-PVR working ofc. The live-tv/pvr-350 problem is too big a problem for me to use it really atm.

[reven]

well if your not going to use it, why make a wish?

[amoeba]

I am currently waiting for the PVR-350 issue to be fixed, because I hide the cable remote and use GB-PVR exclusively.

For now I am just using it to schedule recordings.

Also on my wish/request - a new skin wont cut it, I dont think. Sure I can change the background picture and increase font size, but really I want to increase the whole size of the TvGuide listing, as if I increase font size it will be clipped too much I think.

[amoeba]

Gonna have a look at 'Digital Plus 15 - TV Guide' plugin and see if thats a bit better size-wise than the standard.

Will report back.

[MattDub]

The Video Archive plugin does this very well - makes good use of all the colour buttons (at the expense of mouse clickability), and has an on-screen colour-coded legend. I'd love to see this in the default skin.

[amoeba]

Thanks MattDub, thats exactly what I meant regarding the colour buttons;



, although I would still like a slightly larger font.

[Jeff]

That screen shot is of an older version of the Flat Blue High Visibility - Orange, which has updated most of the plug-ins to use large text. I've since update the skin for the Video Archive plug-in to make the text 19 point Arial Narrow. That is quite big; so big that I can read it from across the room without my glasses. You might want to download that skin and give it a try. I don't think the text can get much bigger without being so big that the words will no longer fit in the space available to them.

Jeff

[amoeba]

I am already using the non-orange version, and assume the orange is the only difference.

What size TV do you have?