Global TextStyles?

[Digital712]

Sorry to be a pest, but Is there a way to set a global text style?

The theme I'm working on I'm trying to make everything as nuetral as possable so you can simply change the background to achive a fairly new look (everything is transparent) But I'd like to be able to change the Highlight color in one place (like BaseSkin) and have all the highlighted text throughout the theme change.

I'd like to set something like:

<TextStyle name="GlobalHighlightText" color="Blue" typeFace="Arial" size="14" style="bold"/>

And use textStyle="GlobalHighlightText" anywhere I want.

Is this possable?

Thanks,

Tony

[Fatman_do]

That would work except in plugins that use hard-coded textstyles. (They exsist).

[McBainUK]

When GBPVR renders a <DrawText> tag in a plugin skin it first looks for the defined textStyle in the current skin file, if it can't find it there then it looks in the Baseskin.xml file.

BTW, do you have any thoughts on these:
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Devel...munitySkin
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Devel...ySkinFiles
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=17950

[Digital712]

Doh! It does work...Yaay. I missed a ">" at the end of my line. My bad.

Sorry,

Tony

[Digital712]

BTW, do you have any thoughts on these:
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Devel...munitySkin
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Devel...ySkinFiles
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=17950

Right now I'm just trying to learn how all this works natively as well as brushing up on my rusty graphic skills. I wouldn't be too much help yet. But I'm a lern'n.

Thanks,

Tony

[Old Dog]

The theme I'm working on I'm trying to make everything as nuetral as possable so you can simply change the background to achive a fairly new look (everything is transparent)

You have already learned the correct answer to your question regarding global text styles. However, based on the sentence quoted above, I suggest you take a detailed look at Plain Jane, especially her skins, and Appearance Manager.

As an example, the attached screen-shots are from Plain Jane. Both use the same, unedited, skin.xml file, the only thing that changed is a single graphics image file. The images use transparent effects heavily.

Regards,
Old Dog
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[Old Dog]

Actually, these might be better examples for your objective. The only change here is the Backgound.jpg file, one is green, the other blue.

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[Digital712]

I've played with it quite a bit, and for the Main menu it's Sweet... but everything else (plugins) look the same with the exception of color. Not to mention my kids would keep changing it around constantly.

Right now I'm still in the learning process and for this theme at least, I'm doing it old school so I know how it all works. I'm also trying to keep it "Lightweight" by using transparent images because we use a MVP and some themes with a lot of triple Rectangles per button, Triple Text, etc. it gets really sluggish.

Plus I'm just having fun.

Couple more shots: (I'm still debating on the text highlights)

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Thanks,

Tony

[Old Dog]

However you go about it, keep up the good work. Your skin is looking very fine and I'm sure many GBPVR users will enjoy it.

Best Regards,
Old Dog