Skins to support weather plugin

[sub]

I dont know why this happening. Sorry.

[CodeMonkey]

I have a thought.  For the MCE skin whenever your press one of the standard buttons, a graphic is drawn on the right of the screen prior to that screen being displayed.  I noticed that the weather button does not display this before it crashes.  Is this what is null and trying to be displayed?  Where are those graphics located?

Update, thats *exactly* what it is. Start gbpvr and don't click on weather, but scroll down to it via the arrow keys. When you get to the weather button it crashes immediately, before you even select it. It is the display graphic I believe.

[gplasky]

Brilliant CodeMonkey. That was the cause of the exception error. The shutdown plugin had a task.png in there so I hadn't noticed it. Thanks. One problem is solved.

Now just need to figure out why the graphical buttons show up cutoff for the add ons. Thanks. Sorry I didn't catch that one.

Gerry

[CodeMonkey]

Gerry, no problem.  I put a task.png in that directory and weather comes up fine now.  Need to shrink the buttons a tad to make them fit though

Sub, you will probably want to change it so that if task.png does not exist for a skin, don't display anything.

[gplasky]

I need to understand why the weather and shutdown add-ins buttons show up like that. And why the text shows up on those buttons. All the other buttons are the same size and they show up fine. I really don't want to have to resize all my buttons just so the weather and shutdown buttons show up as the same size. What is defining that size? Can it be in the skins.xml so if I have to change it I can? What are my options?

Gerry

[sub]

It'll be fixed in the next release, it was a case of unfortunate hardcoding - I've presented my wrists for slapping...

[gplasky]

you're allowed one mistake..........just one.

Gerry

[CodeMonkey]

Gerry: I like using your skin. When can I get a version that has the smaller weather (current, map etc.) buttons?

[gplasky]

Let me see what I have tonight. I'll be gone for the weekend so I'll try to get something available before Friday.

Gerry

[gplasky]

CodeMonkey
Try this

MCE like skin with Weather & Shutdown buttons

Keep in mind the buttons on the main screen will not look good until sub releases next version with the fix. Both the weather screen and shutdown screen is updated for this skin. I also included a weather and shutdown button in the main menu folder that just might work when the fix is made.

CodeMonkey-a request:
Please look at and consider some use of the skins.xml to define some of your screen elements. I have no way of removing the black surround window which would look better for my skin. Also notice even though I reduced both the heighth and width of the buttons, the buttons still appear to sit on top of each others.
Options for black window:
Notice in some of sub's screen it is actully a part of the background. Easy for me to change. Or notice in the shutdown plugin in the skins.xml a window is defined. Either one of these would help me.
Options for buttons:
Notice in Main Menu skins.xml buttons sizes and spaces are defined. Doing it like this would also help me and future skins.

I know there is work involved to make these changes but please consider it for this and future skins. Maybe if an agreement could be reached as far as what elements to define in the .xml file and what is defined in the plugin then it would ease the development of additional skins. Just a thought.

Gerry