NextBlue skin for npvr

[Northpole]

Ah. Too late for me but welcome back. I ended up tweaking the Default skin to achieve a similar result. More channels in the TV Guide, more titles under video listings, simpler looking interface.

Thanks... Glad that you got the default skin working!

[Northpole]

Posted a update on the Wiki that includes support for the following plugins:

•MusicBox4
•Programs Plugin
•RSS Reader
•SearchLite
•System
•TV Listings and TV Recordings
•Universe
•Volume
•Weather
•WebRadio
•YouTube

Also made some additional changes, fixes and improvement.

[Northpole]

Posted an update on the Wiki that fixes a few problems and changes some of the layouts. Also tried to improve overall readability of the skin.

[mvallevand]

Thanks Nortpole that is much better. One thing I have problems with is channel names bleeding through my transparent png on the guide and most dialogs.

Martin

[Northpole]

Let me take a look at it and I'll let you know what could work...

[Northpole]

Uploaded a new version to the wiki that can prevent the bleed thru problem that martin was having. The only caveat is that you need to have channel icons for all your channels!

The skin has two color items defined in the global.xml file. Edit this file with notepad and look for the first 2 line under colors.

Code:

<Color name="GuideIcon" color="Transparent"/>
     <Color name="Icon" color="Transparent"/>

Replace the word "Transparent" with any opaque color that will act as the background for the channel icon. Note, GuideIcon is only for the TV Guide and Icon is for all other screens.

When done, should look similar to this

Code:

<Color name="GuideIcon" color="#131313"/>
     <Color name="Icon" color="#FFFFFF"/>

#FFFFFF = White
#131313 = Near Black, which matches the rest of the guide.

Attached is example, note that blank channel items are missing channel icons that's why you need icons for all channels.

Note that the above modification is only necessary if you are using .png channel icons that can be transparent.

If you have .jpg channel icons or your icons are opaque, then the skin will act as it always has and doesn't need any modification.

[Jaggy]

I don't know if you realise but for the TVGuide you do have the option for with & without icons (my bit from JustRetro below)

Code:

    <Element name="Channels" location="0.7,13.2" size="11.5,9.19" alpha="255" clearBeforeRender="true">
        <Rect location="0.2,0" size="99.6,100" fillColor="ChannelBackground"/>
        <Text visible="!@hasChannelIcon" text="@number" location="0,-3.5" size="100,34" font="ChannelNumber" align="Center"/>
        <Text visible="!@hasChannelIcon" text="@name" location="0,35" size="100,65" font="ChannelName" align="Center" valign="Center" wrap="true"/>
        <Image visible="@hasChannelIcon" source="@icon" location="3,2" size="94,96" fixedAspectRatio="true"/>
    </Element>

[mvallevand]

Thanks both of you. Northpole I couldn't get my icons to look like your channels 720 and 724 like I wanted they all had a white background or text. Using Jaggy's visible="!@hasChannelIcon" on the @name default fixed it perfectly and I get text on the channels with no icons.

Martin

[Northpole]

I don't know if you realise but for the TVGuide you do have the option for with & without icons (my bit from JustRetro below)

Thanks Jaggy.

Yep I'm aware, but it's not available in all .xml files. I was trying to use something that would work everywhere.

[Jaggy]

It also works in EventDetails.....

Where else are there Icons that need it?? (my brains on quite a bit of a go slow currently)

We could put in a "Pretty Please" to sub & have a good chance of getting it implemented at the moment as he's working on the next version