Community Skin version 1.0 released.

[Carlito]

Where exactly?

In the TV Listings page...see screenshot. It could be due to the 'failed copies' error I described earlier. Possibly a skin file not copying over correctly???

[Fatman_do]

In the TV Listings page...see screenshot. It could be due to the 'failed copies' error I described earlier. Possibly a skin file not copying over correctly???

No, that is probably from a textstyle being called that doesn't exist. I'll have to check out the xml file.

[Jeff]

Are you sure the recording service will restart GBPVR MVP servers automatically?

Yes, this is what the <MVPServerAutostart></MVPServerAutostart> parameter in the config.xml file specifies. The recording service is very aggressive on restarting the processes. If they die or are killed they are restarted almost immediately.

Do you have any example code/links to help with killing and restarting processes in dot net?

You can use the Process class to start and kill processes. Killing the GBPVR processes and the GBPVRRecordingService process could use this. Restarting it via the recording service might be different since it is a service not a process. To kill them you would do something like

Code:

Process[] processList = Process.GetProcessesByName("GBPVRRecordingService");
            if (processList != null && processList.Length == 1)
                processList[0].Kill();

            Process[] processList = Process.GetProcessesByName("GBPVR");
            if (processList != null)
            {
                for (int i=processList.Length-1, i>=0; i--)
                    processList[i].Kill();
            }

To restart I think you would do something like:

Code:

Process recordingsProcess = new Process();
            recordingsProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "net";
            recordingsProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = "start \"GB-PVR Recording Service\"";
            recordingsProcess.Start();

Jeff

[Fatman_do]

In the TV Listings page...see screenshot. It could be due to the 'failed copies' error I described earlier. Possibly a skin file not copying over correctly???

This might be a fix.

[Carlito]

This might be a fix.

Thanks Fatman_do, that fixed it!

[Fatman_do]

Ok, I am thinking version 2.0 may be ready for prime time later this week (xml's only.) There are some more image processing and other outstanding issues that will be addressed before it goes "gold".

Upon further review, I am wondering if a few more textstyles are in order.

Jeff and Reven use additional text styles to convey if something has been watched or not, and Reven using styles to indicate if a file is playing.

So maybe I should add ListTextPlaying, IconTextPlaying, ListTextUnseen, and IconTextUnseen.

[McBainUK]

Is there a way to capture the output to a file?

The attached version of SkinPluginHelper.exe supports log files. Log of skin changes are written to SkinPluginHelper.exe.log in the GB-PVR directory.

[Carlito]

Excellent, thanks McBainUK.
I have the log file this produced. The only error not related to taskimages is
C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\skin\SkinPlugin\IconViewFolderIcons\BlueMCE2\IconView_FolderPhoto.png

I switched to the avance theme, but the unselected buttons in sub menus is still set to the blue skin icons.

[Fatman_do]

Excellent, thanks McBainUK.
I have the log file this produced. The only error not related to taskimages is
C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\skin\SkinPlugin\IconViewFolderIcons\BlueMCE2\IconView_FolderPhoto.png

I switched to the avance theme, but the unselected buttons in sub menus is still set to the blue skin icons.

That is from the ".png.png" error in the theme's .xml file (seen in a previous post). I have fixed it for the next release.

The IconView_FolderPhoto is because those images don't exsist (my bad). I'll have to add them for the next release.

[McBainUK]

Dont know why didnt do log to file before, would have made testing so much easier :confused:
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OK, there is a line wrong on the Advance theme xml file (most likely found at C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\skin\SkinPlugin\Themes\Avance.xml).

All you need to do is change this line:

Code:

<ThemeItem skinItemName="NormalButtonEditableSkinItem" type="SingleImage" image="%IMAGESETDIR%\Buttons\Avance\FaintWhite.png.png"/>

To:

Code:

<ThemeItem skinItemName="NormalButtonEditableSkinItem" type="SingleImage" image="%IMAGESETDIR%\Buttons\Avance\FaintWhite.png"/>

And then re-apply the theme.