Community Skin support thread

[Fatman_do]

Request:

When I use the community skin I like to tweak the skins colours. What I also like is to make several different versions depending on my mood. So, is it possible to make a new field in the skin plugin so that it can save as a file the new "skin"? For instance, I use the BlueMCE2 theme, but change several of the backgrounds. Thus far, I've been manually making my own file, but it would be nice to have a save as option - e.g. BlueMCE2_custom1 - directly.

Thanks,
Jam.z

The "hard way" is to browse to the ..\skin\skinplugin\themes\ folder and make a copy of BlueMCE2.xml and BlueMCE2.jpg as BlueMCE2_Custom1.xml and BlueMCE2_Custom1.jpg

Edit the BlueMCE2_Custom1.xml with the path and file names of the ones you selected. You will have to browse those folders and view them in windows explorer.

That BlueMCE2_Custom1 theme will be selectable.

[JonnyCam]

Hello,

I've chnaged my default recordings screen behaviour to always go to what's new, but other people in the house get confused.

Is there anything I can edit in the skins so that the button for the selected screen is highlighted (possibly in a diff colour) and tells you which one you are currently on?

Either that or can I add a title for each of the recording views, and how would I go about doing this?

Cheers

[Fatman_do]

Unfortunately, there is no solution to your request. There is no way to control the display of a "SelectedInactive" button in that screen, nor is there a way in the skin to identify the contents of the display list (ie, "what's new", "pending", ect.) to place a title or "mode" somewhere. This would be something sub would have to add to the plugin.

You can add a text string that states "Default view=What's new", but that is about it.

<CompositeImage name="Background" size="720,480">
<DrawCompositeImage name="ScreenBackground" loc="0,0" size="720,480" parameters="@ScreenName=Recordings"/>
<Element name="InsetRect" loc="10,380" size="145,90"/>
<DrawText text="Default view=What's new" loc="500,450" size="200,22" textStyle="ScreenText" align="Right" />
</CompositeImage>

Adjust location and string to suit...

[JonnyCam]

Is there a way to change the order the buttons are displayed in?

If I am starting with Whats New, then it makes sense to me to have it at the top of the list.

Thanks

[Fatman_do]

Sorry, no. Very few plugins allow the skin to control buttons other than graphics used behind them being selected or not. The default GB-PVR "plugins" are not one of them.

[JonnyCam]

I'll put a post it note on the remote and TV!

Ta

[Fatman_do]

Sorry I couldn't help J.C., but those things are out of my (our) control.

[-Oz-]

I just installed Music Library 2 and am getting the following error:

Error: Could not find file 'C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\skin\Community\_CommonImages\ListView_selectedActive.png'.

I installed the newest Community Skin today (30 Apr). In my _CommonImages folder I appear to only have listview_selected.png and listview_selectedinactive.png

[JonnyCam]

I just installed Music Library 2 and am getting the following error:

Quote:
Error: Could not find file 'C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\skin\Community\_CommonImages\Lis tView_selectedActive.png'.

I installed the newest Community Skin today (30 Apr). In my _CommonImages folder I appear to only have listview_selected.png and listview_selectedinactive.png

I had the same error last night after install, but just an install of the newest community skin from the Wiki seemed to have fixed it - maybe it was something else then?

[Fatman_do]

Note, MusicLibrary2 includes an obsolete version of the skin. Re-Install the community skin for the latest version. I'll PM psycik about the error.