Video Library Images

[antialias]

I've check the wiki, and searched the forums a bit, and can't seem to find the answer to this..

I'de like to put images for all the movies/shows I have in my video library plug in. I figured out that a .jpg with the same file name as the video/directory will show the image in the plugin, but it's a small horizontal format image(not good for dvd covers and such). Also in the "icon" view it's showing 4x3 which would make browsing by images not very useful anyway. So my questions are as follows:

First, is there a way to make it use a dvd/vertical shaped image and display the full image.

Second, is there a way to set the number of icons in the icon view(smaller number to show larger images)

Third, for shows where I have a season in a single directory, can I have them each use the same image file, or better yet, have icon view for the first browsing level(differect show directories) but then have the show directories set to list view rather than icon view.

Thanks.

[bjones]

I would also like to know how to edit the image size so it shows the whole picture.

Thanks

[Fatman_do]

In the skin file, this line determines rows and columns

Code:

<SpecialElement name="IconView" loc="15,15" rows="3" columns="4" horizontalSpacing="5" verticalSpacing="5"/>

This determines sizes

Code:

<!-- icon view -->
        <CompositeImage name="IconViewNormalItem" size="120,120">
      <DrawImage filename="large-file.png" loc="10,5" size="100,92"/>
      <DrawImage filename="@thumbnail" loc="5,5" size="110,90"/>
      <DrawText text="@fileName" loc="0,102" size="120,20" textStyle="IconViewItemsTitle" align="Center"/>
    </CompositeImage>

    <CompositeImage name="IconViewSelectedItem" size="120,120">
      <DrawRect loc="0,0" size="120,120" fillColor="StandardSelectionBackground" borderWidth="0"/>
      <DrawImage filename="large-file.png" loc="10,5" size="100,92"/>
      <DrawImage filename="@thumbnail" loc="5,5" size="110,90"/>
      <DrawText text="@fileName" loc="0,102" size="120,20" textStyle="IconViewItemsTitle" align="Center"/>
        </CompositeImage>            

        <CompositeImage name="IconViewNormalFolder" size="120,120">      
      <DrawImage filename="large-folder.png" loc="10,5" size="100,92"/>
      <DrawImage filename="@folderPreviewImage" loc="20,19" size="80,62"/>
      <DrawText text="@folderName" loc="0,102" size="120,20" textStyle="IconViewItemsTitle" align="Center"/>
        </CompositeImage>            
        
        <CompositeImage name="IconViewSelectedFolder" size="120,120">
      <DrawRect loc="0,0" size="120,120" fillColor="StandardSelectionBackground" borderWidth="0"/>
      <DrawImage filename="large-folder.png" loc="10,5" size="100,92"/>
      <DrawImage filename="@folderPreviewImage" loc="20,19" size="80,62"/>
      <DrawText text="@folderName" loc="0,102" size="120,20" textStyle="IconViewItemsTitle" align="Center"/>
        </CompositeImage>

Adjust sizes accordingly. If you make one less row, add 60 to the sizes of the images in the y direction (the second number).

for example:

Code:

<!-- icon view -->
        <CompositeImage name="IconViewNormalItem" size="120,180">
      <DrawImage filename="large-file.png" loc="10,5" size="100,172"/>
      <DrawImage filename="@thumbnail" loc="5,5" size="110,170"/>
      <DrawText text="@fileName" loc="0,102" size="120,20" textStyle="IconViewItemsTitle" align="Center"/>
    </CompositeImage>

    <CompositeImage name="IconViewSelectedItem" size="120,180">
      <DrawRect loc="0,0" size="120,180" fillColor="StandardSelectionBackground" borderWidth="0"/>
      <DrawImage filename="large-file.png" loc="10,5" size="100,172"/>
      <DrawImage filename="@thumbnail" loc="5,5" size="110,170"/>
      <DrawText text="@fileName" loc="0,102" size="120,20" textStyle="IconViewItemsTitle" align="Center"/>
        </CompositeImage>            

        <CompositeImage name="IconViewNormalFolder" size="120,180">      
      <DrawImage filename="large-folder.png" loc="10,5" size="100,172"/>
      <DrawImage filename="@folderPreviewImage" loc="20,19" size="80,142"/>
      <DrawText text="@folderName" loc="0,102" size="120,20" textStyle="IconViewItemsTitle" align="Center"/>
        </CompositeImage>            
        
        <CompositeImage name="IconViewSelectedFolder" size="120,180">
      <DrawRect loc="0,0" size="120,180" fillColor="StandardSelectionBackground" borderWidth="0"/>
      <DrawImage filename="large-folder.png" loc="10,5" size="100,172"/>
      <DrawImage filename="@folderPreviewImage" loc="20,19" size="80,142"/>
      <DrawText text="@folderName" loc="0,102" size="120,20" textStyle="IconViewItemsTitle" align="Center"/>
        </CompositeImage>