New user new install and a few "issues"

[bgowland]

I examined your Vertical.xml file and noticed the first line to be suspicious:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> I changed it to <Vertical.xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>.

Sorry, this post has nothing to do with your issue but for future reference, if you are dabbling with XML files from other systems and see...

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

...on the first line, do NOT mess with it. It's what's called the 'XML Declaration' and there are strict rules that bound it.

sub parses the npvr XML files his own way so it wouldn't have mattered in this case that you edited it. Most standard XML parsers on the other hand wouldn't have been at all happy with your edit.

As I said, sorry to side-track but be very careful when editing XML.

Cheers,
Brian

[mvallevand]

Yeah, I'm sure he's not using the default skin. If he was using skin file I supplied, it'd have shaded the whole left on the screen, and the text would have been further left.

How can you keep the menu from wrapping with Default the way it does in Wave?

Martin

[sub]

I dont have the Wave skin installed, so dont know exactly what you mean, but it'll just be using one of the optional features in the skin file.

[rkircher]

The skin I am using is in the Default directory, but I can't be sure it is the "genuine" default. How can I tell? I remember having trouble with the Default skin a couple years ago and someone in the forum sent me a replacement that worked much better for the screen resolution I was using. It looks good and I like the large font size, but I can't get the layout under control. I guess it depends what the NPVR Installer does when a new version is installed. I do know that I replaced my Vertical.xml with the version you sent me in an attachment. I thought the number of buttons should be set with visibleButtons="N" but it is not having an effect. Sure wish I had some documentation. If you sent me your Default skin, I would be happy to give it a try to get control over my installation and Main Menu layout.

[Graham]

If you sent me your Default skin, I would be happy to give it a try to get control over my installation and Main Menu layout.

Would you get a re-install of the skin if you renamed the existing Skin folder and then re-ran the NPVR installer?

[mvallevand]

I dont have the Wave skin installed, so dont know exactly what you mean, but it'll just be using one of the optional features in the skin file.

There is something specific to Default happening. If I simply copy Default to another folder I have the display problem that rkircher has, but the menu doesn't wrap. The same skin in Default looks good until it wraps.

Martin

[sub]

The skin I am using is in the Default directory, but I can't be sure it is the "genuine" default. How can I tell? I remember having trouble with the Default skin a couple years ago and someone in the forum sent me a replacement that worked much better for the screen resolution I was using. It looks good and I like the large font size, but I can't get the layout under control. I guess it depends what the NPVR Installer does when a new version is installed. I do know that I replaced my Vertical.xml with the version you sent me in an attachment. I thought the number of buttons should be set with visibleButtons="N" but it is not having an effect. Sure wish I had some documentation. If you sent me your Default skin, I would be happy to give it a try to get control over my installation and Main Menu layout.

I'm sure you're not using the vertical.xml I supplied, because there is several differences from in your screenshot from what vertical.xml would give, and you also would have broken it with that xml change you mentioned (and would have resulted in error message) Given these, I'm sure you're using other files.

I've attached the complete skin though, minus the "_Backgrounds" folder to keep the attachment size down.

[sub]

There is something specific to Default happening. If I simply copy Default to another folder I have the display problem that rkircher has, but the menu doesn't wrap. The same skin in Default looks good until it wraps.

I just tried this here, but I cant see what you're talking about. The copy of the Default skin and it looks the same as the Default skin to me.

[mvallevand]

I just tried this here, but I cant see what you're talking about. The copy of the Default skin and it looks the same as the Default skin to me.

Did you try with only 5 items enabled?

Martin

[sub]

Yes.

There is a bit of a quirky difference between going up vs down when the number if items are equal to the number of display items, but its the same on default and copy of default.