Community Skin version 1.0 released.

[Fatman_do]

Looking good. I have another suggestion. I've noticed that you using named colors for most, but not all things. In particular, I think it would be useful if the ScreenName and HintText styles used named colors so that plug-in skins could reuse these colors if they have other custom text styles that they would like to match in terms of color to these common styles.

Code:

    <!-- Screen Text-->    
        <TextStyle name="ScreenName" color="#2562b0" typeFace="Arial" size="32" style="bold" /><!--Max size=32 -->
        <TextStyle name="HintText" color="White" typeFace="Arial" size="13" style="bold"/> <!--Added-->    
        
        <TextStyle name="ScreenText" color="ScreenText" typeFace="Arial" size="13" style="bold" />
        <TextStyle name="ScreenTextLarge" color="ScreenText" typeFace="Arial" size="16" style="bold" />
        <TextStyle name="ScreenTag" color="ScreenTag" typeFace="Arial" size="14" style="bold" />
        <TextStyle name="ScreenTagLarge" color="ScreenTag" typeFace="Arial" size="16" style="bold" />

Jeff

Ok. I thought about that as well, but wasn't sure if it was necessary. I'll add that for the next update.

[Fatman_do]

Behind the scenes.....Geek speak.....

One of the "things" that I am doing with these mysterious "internal changes" is I am swapping out alot of

<DrawImage filename="..\_CommonImages\Background_List.png" loc="0,0" size="500,380" />

With....

<DrawCompositeImage name="Background_List" loc="0,0" size="500,380" />

Why?

Well, hidden away in the MainMenu selections there is a blue xml demo main menu. It shows that these xml files can be used with an all xml stucture for buttons, list backgrounds, popup backgrounds, ect.

Just one of the things that I am doing to test just how flexible and universal this system is, by having all the power in the baseskin.xml file.

[-Oz-]

i like the addition of the weather to the skin.

Its a great skin

[gEd]

Hi

I just tried the latest version and now MY Videos doesn;t load up.

Code:

31/10/2006 11:32:47.500    VERBOSE    [1]    Initializing skin helper for: .\skin\Community\My Videos\skin.xml
31/10/2006 11:32:47.500    VERBOSE    [1]    Initializing skin helper for: .\skin\Community\My Series\skin.xml
31/10/2006 11:32:47.500    VERBOSE    [1]    Initializing skin helper for: .\skin\Community\My Series\itemlist-skin.xml
31/10/2006 11:32:47.546    ERROR    [1]    Unable to find node: /settings/SpecialElements/SpecialElement[@name="PageUpDownButtonsEnabled"]
31/10/2006 11:32:47.625    ERROR    [1]    Error initializing menu plugin: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\plugins\MyVideosPlugin.dll
31/10/2006 11:32:47.625    ERROR    [1]    Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
31/10/2006 11:32:47.625    ERROR    [1]       at System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandle& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck)
   at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean fillCache)
   at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks, Boolean fillCache)
   at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)
   at GBPVR.Backend.Common.xc4f12ec3a8a4c96b.xb77fa95273e0c228(Boolean x8bae2a88590d8cc0)
31/10/2006 11:32:47.640    ERROR    [1]    Inner exception: System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: Not a valid bookmark.
   at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionInternal..ctor(OleDbConnectionString constr, OleDbConnection connection)
   at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningObject)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreateNonPooledConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionPoolGroup poolGroup)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.GetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.OpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory)
   at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.Open()
   at MyVideosPlugin.Database.Database.GetPins() in C:\Documents and Settings\Sean\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\My Videos 5\Database\Database.cs:line 1504
   at MyVideosPlugin.Database.Database..ctor(String connstring, String gb_connstring) in C:\Documents and Settings\Sean\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\My Videos 5\Database\Database.cs:line 55
   at MyVideosPlugin.MyVideosTask..ctor() in C:\Documents and Settings\Sean\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\My Videos 5\MyVideos.cs:line 154
31/10/2006 11:32:47.640    ERROR    [1]       at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionInternal..ctor(OleDbConnectionString constr, OleDbConnection connection)
   at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningObject)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreateNonPooledConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionPoolGroup poolGroup)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.GetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection)
   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.OpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory)
   at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.Open()
   at MyVideosPlugin.Database.Database.GetPins() in C:\Documents and Settings\Sean\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\My Videos 5\Database\Database.cs:line 1504
   at MyVideosPlugin.Database.Database..ctor(String connstring, String gb_connstring) in C:\Documents and Settings\Sean\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\My Videos 5\Database\Database.cs:line 55
   at MyVideosPlugin.MyVideosTask..ctor() in C:\Documents and Settings\Sean\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\My Videos 5\MyVideos.cs:line 154

[Fatman_do]

Does anyone else get this? I didn't make any changes that should have caused it (but I might have).

Will take me a while to track this down, I need to install this plugin on my work PC to fix it here. That bit of the log didn't look like it gave me anything to go on. Does it work with blue?

[gEd]

oh hang on - it does it with the default Blue skin as well. Sorry.

I'll go away and investigate.

[Fatman_do]

Yeah, I just installed it here and it worked. I did notice I need to still fix some icon issues McBainUK pointed out. It looked good from the xml part of it, I just never had it installed to actually check it out.

[murphotronic]

Due to network troubleshooting (never use Norton), I'm about to do a completely fresh install of GBPVR and Community Skin and I noticed the obsolete note on the Wiki:

"version 1.0 (GB-PVR Version v.0.98.8+ compatible) (OBSOLETE-See latest beta)"

If I'm installing GBPVR v.0.98.13, do I need version 1.0 or the beta?

Thumbs up by the way on the long list of plugin support, makes it so much easier for us non-coding people.

Thanks,
murph.



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[Fatman_do]

Beta has all latest impovements, tweaks, and features. It just represents a work in progress in converting the plugin skins over to a new internal system. Once all the plugin skins are up to date, it will become 2.0. The beta is fully functional, just there may be changes along the way.

1.0 is obsolete in the sense that there has been quite a bit of work done since that version.

[murphotronic]

thanks for the quick reply, one more issue: under supported plugins it lists three that I don't see on the Wiki:

- Newsfeeds v. 1.0 - I'm guessing this is RSS Reader, but the v1.0 vs v.4.5 is confusing me

- Recordings2 - I was using the first, but no longer find it in the Wiki

- Homeseer - is this a home automation or security cam plugin? where would I find it?

Thanks again,
murph.