Theater Listing v6.6

[Ted the Penguin]

the real problem comes with the background resolution being hardcoded, as well as the sizes of the info on the movie screen.
I have been playing around with the skin as it currently is and I can get it to look alright, except when you get the info about a movie, alot of the info disapears behind the poster, because I had to move the text over because the buttons are so wide. also the buttons there are really close together, liek overlaping, because again, the size is different than the default skin

[Brian_W]

Well this release of the plugin (which was originally written by Jorm) was my first attempt and I tried to increase the "skinability" as much a possible. Obviously some more tweaking is in order. There were a lot of hard coded values in the code, before I got a hold of it. Could you post a few screen shots so I can see what difficulties you are running into, and then I will make some adjustments. Thanks.

Brian

[Ted the Penguin]

ok so here are some screenshots of what I have done, I included the original and one with modifications that I have made. I also included the skin file so you can see what I have done.

keep in mind I am making modifications to the 720x480 skin just so it looks acceptable, I would really like to make the background 1280x720

I really appreciate your help, I have looked at the source and it looks like it is going to be a bit of a pain.

[Brian_W]

Well the source you were looking at was for v6.5. I haven't released the 6.6 code yet as I want to clean it up a bit more first. I will take a look at the screen shots and see what I can do. Thanks.

Brian

[Ted the Penguin]

yeah I know the source was 6.5, I was really just looking for the hardcoded background size, that pops up in a few places. I have made some changes to the skin, and it is looking better, made the buttons the correct size by inserting the baseskin.xml button and text stuff into the skin file with the sizes that work with the plugin.
thanks so much for being so helpful about this

[Fatman_do]

Care to give this a try?

[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]

Among a few other things, I added this. PopupSelectedButtonImage and PopupNormalButtonImage are undocumented composite images that the popup uses. The veritcal spacing of the buttons appears hard-coded so I reduced the size just a bit.

Code:

<!-- the popup menu button selected image -->    
<CompositeImage name="PopupSelectedButtonImage" size="175,40">
   <DrawImage filename="..\_res\btn_sel.png" size="165,40" loc="10,0"/>
   <DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="14,0" size="160,30" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Center"/>            
</CompositeImage>
            
<!-- the popup menu button normal image -->
<CompositeImage name="PopupNormalButtonImage" size="175,40">
   <DrawImage filename="..\_res\btn.png" size="165,40" loc="10,0"/>
   <DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="14,0" size="160,30" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Center"/>
</CompositeImage>

[Ted the Penguin]

thanks fatman_do, I guess I figured that out myself, I have it looking somewhat acceptable, that is everything is visible and follows sassari's theme without overlaping. however still low-res. I will post my skin file, tell me what you think (if you are running sassari).

[Brian_W]

Yes button spacing is hardcoded. I didn't realize it until after I had already released it. It's on my list of todos.

Brian

[Mr. Camaro]

...one thing that will really help is if people could get me links to websites they use from other countries where they can get current local movie listings. Then I can check out the website and write a parser for it.

Not sure if it is the same for everyone or not but the biggest theater in my town is not listed on Fandango for some reason. I always use http://movies.yahoo.com/ to look up what is on at the theaters in town. Not sure if a parser could be written for it or not. Yahoo does have a lot of information on movies. I like the ratings that are given by the Critics and Yahoo Users.

Here is a link to a recent movie so you can see what I mean.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808723345/info

I know your probably busy with other things but I thought I would pass on the information in case it is useful to you.

[Fatman_do]

thanks fatman_do, I guess I figured that out myself, I have it looking somewhat acceptable, that is everything is visible and follows sassari's theme without overlaping. however still low-res. I will post my skin file, tell me what you think (if you are running sassari).

skin.zip

I think you have your button image names backwards.