UbuStream and Community skin

[ubu]

here is where it can be found (at bottom of page)

Don't know how I missed that thread the first time round. Very edifying (and intense at times - skinners and developers sure are a cantankerous bunch ). As soon as I can, I'll start using the version number parameter for the SkinHelper. It seems like a great idea.

Also, I'm not 100% clear about base skin usage. It sounds like the developer doesn't have to do anything "special" to "take advantage" of it. But if, for instance, I'm currently using buttons that are defined in my skin.xml file, won't my plugin be using those instead of generic base skin buttons? Or am I missing something?

[Fatman_do]

Also, I'm not 100% clear about base skin usage. It sounds like the developer doesn't have to do anything "special" to "take advantage" of it.

That is correct.

But if, for instance, I'm currently using buttons that are defined in my skin.xml file, won't my plugin be using those instead of generic base skin buttons? Or am I missing something?

You are correct here also. If composite images, textstyles, and defined colors and values (of certain types) are not in the plugin's skin.xml file, skinhelper then looks in the skin's baseskin.xml file.

Your buttons use:

Code:

            <CompositeImage name="GbpvrUiElements_SelectedButtonImage" size="155,50">
                <DrawRoundedRect loc="15,15" size="135,30" radius="10" borderWidth="3" borderColor="White" fillColor="DarkBlue"/>        
                <DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="15,19" size="135,30" textStyle="GbpvrUiElements_ButtonText" align="Center"/>
            </CompositeImage>

If you changed the buttons to use the composite image named "SelectedButtonImage" and "NormalButtonImage" (which are defined in blue's baseskin.xml file), those button definitions would not need to be in the skin.xml of your plugin (which would mean your plugin wouldn't need to care about if images or xml are used, the fonts and text color).

[ubu]

If you changed the buttons to use the composite image named "SelectedButtonImage" and "NormalButtonImage" (which are defined in blue's baseskin.xml file), those button definitions would not need to be in the skin.xml of your plugin (which would mean your plugin wouldn't need to care about if images or xml are used, the fonts and text color).

Thanks for your very helpful clarification. I'll implement your suggestion (and <Version> in the xml file) in the next "official" (ie. non-bugfix) release of UbuStream.

[Fatman_do]

One more suggestion, change the background composite image to:

Code:

<CompositeImage name="Background" size="720,480">
  <DrawCompositeImage name="ScreenBackground" loc="0,0" size="720,480" parameters="@ScreenName=Internet Video and Audio Streams"/>
</CompositeImage>

This will pick up the background (filename and path) and screen name (font & location) information from the blue Baseskin.xml file as well.

[ubu]

One more suggestion, change the background composite image to:

Code:

<CompositeImage name="Background" size="720,480">
  <DrawCompositeImage name="ScreenBackground" loc="0,0" size="720,480" parameters="@ScreenName=Internet Video and Audio Streams"/>
</CompositeImage>

This will pick up the background (filename and path) and screen name (font & location) information from the blue Baseskin.xml file as well.

Excellent! Works like a charm (see my response to your other post in the skinhelper thread in the Developer forum).

[zehd]

This thread seemed the most relevent...

I got this message after installing v 2.0 with the patch

skin file not found: .\skin\blue=Common Dialogs\Prompt Box skin.xml

I'm using 99.5, Community Skin, latest to date... Config set to blue skin...

I wonder what's going on...

Thanks

Edit: not latest community skin. (Dec 28) Trying that now....

Edit2: Tryed the newest, still the same issue...

[zehd]

I solved the problem by 'stealing' two directories from the Community Skin folder and copying into the Blue folder...

_CommonImages
Common Dialogs

[Fatman_do]

I solved the problem by 'stealing' two directories from the Community Skin folder and copying into the Blue folder...

_CommonImages
Common Dialogs

Not sure why it is looking for the blue folder Common Dialogs. I can't seem to get it to duplicate this. I removed \CommonDialogs from the blue folder and didn't get any error.

I did see where errors were in the logs, but that did not cause problems.

It appears I need to change the way I am getting button images from the baseskin.xml file. There are errors in the "DrawCompositeImage" which I can't seem to figure out.



This skin file should do away with errors in the logs.
[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]

[ubu]

skin file not found: .\skin\blue=Common Dialogs\Prompt Box skin.xml

I'm using 99.5, Community Skin, latest to date... Config set to blue skin...

Not sure why it is looking for the blue folder Common Dialogs. I can't seem to get it to duplicate this. I removed \CommonDialogs from the blue folder and didn't get any error.

Since Prompt Box skin.xml is part of the GB-PVR distribution, it should have found it in skin/Blue/Common Dialogs.

UbuStream doesn't explicitly use the Prompt Box but it does employ the GbpvrUiElements Library's error and yes/no dialogs which, presumably, do use it. (This may or may not be relevant but UbuStream v2.0 does require the most recent version of GbpvrUiElements.)

[Fatman_do]

Since Prompt Box skin.xml is part of the GB-PVR distribution, it should have found it in skin/Blue/Common Dialogs.

UbuStream doesn't explicitly use the Prompt Box but it does employ the GbpvrUiElements Library's error and yes/no dialogs which, presumably, do use it. (This may or may not be relevant but UbuStream v2.0 does require the most recent version of GbpvrUiElements.)

The prompt box is part of the CommonGBPVRUtilities distribution, and is not a part of GBPVR's distribution. That being said, the Community skin has everything self contained and doesn't need to fall back to blue for anything.