Common Images Plugins Skins & Community Skin Project

[MixMan]

Common Images Plugins Skins & Community Skin Project

The defining of a new Common Image Based Skin that is intended to replace the BlueMCE2 Image Set, will benifit all Plugin Developers and Skin Designers. The plugin skins will be portable by drag and drop the plugin skin into any full skin.

We ask Sub and all Plugin developers to have a look at the CommonImage naming suggestion and reconsider if it could be an alternative to Blue and BlueMCE2 image naming.

The suggegstions work is based on BlueMCE2 images and s documented here:

Common Image Naming Definitions
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Devel...munitySkin

Common Image based Skin Files
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Devel...ySkinFiles

Common Image based Skin Plugin
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Devel...SkinPlugin

Fatman_do, McBainUK and Mixman are the ones that has been active in defining the Image Names, Skin creating and McBainUK made a Appearance Theme Manager Plugin.


[SIZE="4"]CommonImages Skin Objectives[/SIZE]
The idea with the BlueMCE2 cleanup and CommonImages skin project from my side is to:

1. Create a new CommonImage skin that is compatible with the BlueMCE2 skins that the plugin developer makes.

2. Create naming naming and design rules for coherent plugin skin looks.

3. Have the plugin developers to abandon BlueMCE2 skin for CommonImages skin.

4. Create CommonImage plugin skin files so that all skin developers can use them by "drag and drop" the skin files into their skins.

5. Make it possible for an end user to just drop a plugin skin file into an image based skin. Just like it is possible with Blue today.

6. Have Sub support the CommonImage naming in a new Image based skin, by having a _CommonImages folder and including some images into the Blue skin

7. Have the Community to create images for a new "Default" skin that Sub ships with his GBPVR installation.

8. The plugin skins should be "out of the box" compatible with any skin, from plugin developer directly to the end user, without any involvemnent from a skinner.
Just like the Blue plugin skins.


We are at point no 2 now

[Fatman_do]

Due to wiki trouble, here is a bug fix for the recordings skin files located in this post.

http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=1...tcount=261

[HTPCGB]

That fixed the previous error but now I'm getting "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." when "Manual Rec" is selected. Everything else is great.

[Fatman_do]

Please post your logs, I do not get this error so I have to see what might be missing.


(edit)
Wait a second

I may have found it.

This is the error.

Code:

8/14/2006 4:23:04 PM.281    ERROR    [1]    Error: msg=0x100 (WM_KEYDOWN) hwnd=0x6d0662 wparam=0xd lparam=0x11c0001 result=0x0  :  System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImageNonCached(Image image, Boolean fillWithBackgroundColour, Color backgroundColour, String name, Hashtable parameters)
   at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImageNonCached(String name, Hashtable parameters)
   at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImage(String name, Hashtable parameters)
   at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImage(String name)
   at GBPVR.x49a1bac7e473cd4e.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering)
   at GBPVR.x3222298a0181dd43.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering)
   at GBPVR.x86396f56243de9fb.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering)
   at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xdae9991ab918b397(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, KeyEventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyEventArgs(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmKeyChar(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
   at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.WndProc(Message& m)

I will have to track this down later tonite. I was able to use the manual rec. popup through the TV-Guide so it must be in this plugin skin file somewhere.

[Old Dog]

McBainUK made a Appearance Theme Manager Plugin.

McBain's plug-in is called Themes Manager. Perhaps you are confusing it with my plug-in, Appearance Manager.

[MixMan]

Please post your logs, I do not get this error so I have to see what might be missing.


(edit)
Wait a second

I may have found it.

This is the error.

Code:

8/14/2006 4:23:04 PM.281    ERROR    [1]    Error: msg=0x100 (WM_KEYDOWN) hwnd=0x6d0662 wparam=0xd lparam=0x11c0001 result=0x0  :  System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImageNonCached(Image image, Boolean fillWithBackgroundColour, Color backgroundColour, String name, Hashtable parameters)
   at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImageNonCached(String name, Hashtable parameters)
   at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImage(String name, Hashtable parameters)
   at GBPVR.Public.SkinHelper.getNamedImage(String name)
   at GBPVR.x49a1bac7e473cd4e.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering)
   at GBPVR.x3222298a0181dd43.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering)
   at GBPVR.x86396f56243de9fb.render(Boolean& requiresMoreRendering)
   at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.xdae9991ab918b397(Object xdf2e3583f942db7b, KeyEventArgs xc4f45905cb1fc7ba)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyEventArgs(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmKeyChar(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
   at GBPVR.xbb1566157f5f8b1f.WndProc(Message& m)

I will have to track this down later tonite. I was able to use the manual rec. popup through the TV-Guide so it must be in this plugin skin file somewhere.

I get an object referece error also.

These Special elements are missing

<SpecialElement name="LeftArrowDecoration" horizontalOffset="605"/>
<SpecialElement name="RightArrowDecoration" horizontalOffset="635"/>

[Fatman_do]

I just got back from football practice. I will fix that asap.

[Fatman_do]

That wasn't the problem, it will work without that there (I added it anyway and got the error.)

It is probably something simple, I now have some time to look at it.

[Fatman_do]

Ok, found the needle in the haystack. The location information for that popup was missing.

Updated on the wiki also.

Recordings.zip

[HTPCGB]

That did the trick.