Skinning wishes

[mikaelgu]

I recently started developing a skin and have found GB-PVR more versatile than I initally thought, but there are some issues I'd very much love to see corrected.
1) I've tried to add either the CurrentTime object or the Clock panel to all pages but I seems they only display on their respective pages (CurrentTime on Guide and Clock on main menu). Am I doing something wrong or is it by design? Silly if it's the latter...

2) The Search Recordings page can't really be skinned at all, I'd like to atleast resize/move the different boxes and alter their appearance (change border width/color and corner radius ie, DrawRoundedRect).

3) Skinning of the Record-screen.
The Record and Cancel -buttons take their skinning info from the same place as the buttons on the side of the Program popup in the TV Guide. Creates all sorts of problems when using asymmetrical buttons, see the Street skin for an example. Wouldn't mind if the border which marks the active selection could be modified too.

4) Also would be nice if the screen that pops up when trying to play a DVD without a disc in the drive would be skinnable (and it also appears to be pop up under the "now recording" panel. Imho it should look more like the recording popup, ie solid background.

5) The spacings seem to be defined very differently in the different button elements...
Main Menu: spacing 4
TV Guide ProgrammePopupButtons: spacing -10
and I though there was a third as well, but I can't seem to find it. Anyways, the two above create the exact same effect, so it seems a little strange to use different spacings to actually create the same space...

6) Ability to skin the Net Radio buttons just like the Recordings buttons with SelectedItemBackground and ItemBackground.

Just my 2 (or 6) cents to make a great program even greater!

Edit: even more (6)

[reven]

Quote[/b] ]1) I've tried to add either the CurrentTime object or the Clock panel to all pages but I seems they only display on their respective pages (CurrentTime on Guide and Clock on main menu). Am I doing something wrong or is it by design? Silly if it's the latter...

nah your not doing something wrong, the clock can only be placed on certain pages.

Quote[/b] ]2) The Search Recordings page can't really be skinned at all, I'd like to atleast resize/move the different boxes and alter their appearance (change border width/color and corner radius ie, DrawRoundedRect).

yes this needs to be completely redone, and fastfind isnt much help here, that needs to become more skinnable.

[sub]

I am redoing the recordings screens. The new version will be more skin able. Hopefully this will be included in the next release.

[mikaelgu]

Quote[/b] (sub @ Mar. 03 2005,16:49)]I am redoing the recordings screens. The new version will be more skin able. Hopefully this will be included in the next release.

Thank you Sub, that's all I really needed to hear
I'll skin what I can for now and wait for the new release and skin some more.