more skinning issues

[reven]

sub would it be possible to change these things in the tv guide/live tv guide
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE"><SpecialElement name="TimePeriods" loc="66,338" />
<SpecialElement name="SelectedProgrammeTitle" loc="120,1385" size="540,20"/>
<SpecialElement name="SelectedProgrammeDesc" loc="120,1403" size="540,60"/>
<SpecialElement name="CurrentTime" loc="550,19"/>
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to
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
<CompositeImage name="Background" size="720,480">
<DrawImage filename="miniguide.png" loc="0,336" size="720,132"/>
<DrawText text="@TimePeriods" loc="66,338" size="450,26" textStyle="TimesPeriods" align="Left"/>
<DrawText text="@SelectedProgrammeTitle" loc="120,1385" size="450,26" textStyle="SelectedProgrammeTitle" align="Left"/>
<DrawText text="@SelectedProgrammeTitle" loc="120,1403" size="450,26" textStyle="SelectedProgrammeDesc" align="Left"/>
<DrawText text="@CurrentTime" loc="550,19" size="450,26" textStyle="CurrentTime" align="Left"/>
</CompositeImage>[/QUOTE]

just make things a little bit more flexible.

also is there anyway to adjust the vertical alignment in the draw text, ie valign=&quot;centre&quot; (centre, doesnt seem to work either).

and is there anyway to pass an image to &lt;DrawImage filename=&quot;@Image&quot; ... /&gt; that doesnt stretch the image to fill the defined size, but rather maintains the aspect ratio of the passed image and does a best fix. eg &lt;DrawImage filename=&quot;@Image&quot; mode=&quot;BestFit/Stretch/Actual&quot;.../&gt;.

reven.

[jrockintuitive]

What is the advantage of this?

I will put this in guide2j, I just don't know the advantage.

Any other skinning wish list for the guide? I modelled my skins parameters after the existing guide, if there is a better method I should use, I would like to know.

[reven]

i want to create a border effect around the time since i want to display it over video. so i want multiple instances of CurrentTime, one with a white colour font, and several with a black colour, the black texts will be paint +-2 pixel around the white one in every direction, and the white one will be painted last. a cheap border effect yes, but will make the time visible on light backgrounds.

not sure if this is useful in guide2j, but use in the live guide.

of course i have no idea if this will work, maybe only the first &quot;@CurrentTime&quot; will be replaced with the current time, or perhaps the last. depends how sub does the xml parsing.