Modify Skin blue

[Captain-DJ]

Hello!

I want to make all fonts and icons in the base skin "blue" bigger.
I have edit the baseskin and a plugin skin.

My problem:
I dont know how to make the menue bigger (see image)
I want to edit the spaces not only the font size.

Does any one know what i must change ?

[Fatman_do]

Mostly what you need to modify is in the baseskin.xml file.

I suggest making a copy of the ..\devnz\gbpvr\skin2\blue folder, that way you always have a backup. Maybe ..\devnz\gbpvr\skin2\My blue.

Then in that folder edit the baseskin.xml file (you can use notepad.exe).

You will see a few lines from the top...

Code:

<settings>
    <!-- Text Style -->
    <TextStyles>
        <!-- special case text style providing defaults -->
        <TextStyle name="DefaultTextStyle" typeFace="Arial" size="12" style="bold"/>

        <!-- other commonly used text styles -->
        <TextStyle name="ScreenNameStyle" color="#444450" size="24"/>
        [B][color=Red]<TextStyle name="ButtonTextStyle" color="White" size="11"/>[/color][/B]
        <TextStyle name="GeneralTextHeaderStyle" color="Yellow" size="12"/>
        <TextStyle name="GeneralTextStyle" color="White" size="12"/>
    </TextStyles>

You can play around with the button text size there (And color if you want).

Then, further down in the file you will see..

Code:

        <CompositeImage name="ButtonNormal" size="[color=Red]20.0,5.0[/color]">
          <DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="7,12" size="100,100" textStyle="ButtonTextStyle" align="Left"/>
        </CompositeImage>

        <CompositeImage name="ButtonSelected" size="[color=Red]22.0,5.0[/color]">
                  <DrawImage filename="..\_CoreImages\button_selected.png" loc="0,0" size="100,100"/>
          <DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="7,12" size="100,100" textStyle="ButtonTextStyle" align="Left"/>
        </CompositeImage>

The numbers in red are the length and height of the buttons. These are numbers based on percentage of the screen size. 22% long, 5% tall. Make minor changes like 23,5.

You can even use decimals like 23.5,5

Feel free to ask more questions if needed. I am here to help.

[Fatman_do]

Oh, and one more thing.

If you make height adjustments, like 23,6

you will have to go up a few lines and edit this line..

Code:

<Placement name="StandardButtonOrigin" loc="12,12" offset="[color=Red]6.0[/color]"/>

[Captain-DJ]

Oh, and one more thing.

If you make height adjustments, like 23,6

you will have to go up a few lines and edit this line..

Code:

<Placement name="StandardButtonOrigin" loc="12,12" offset="[color=Red]6.0[/color]"/>

I have a copy of the skin and i made many changes, but this is what i need !
When the font is to big, it will cut the Text, so i must have more space between the line!

Thanks for your help, now i can make really BIG skin :-)
(my TV is to far away) ;-)

[Fatman_do]

Have you looked at this skin?

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Skin/Blue-Retro-SHV

[Captain-DJ]

Hmm no, but i will test it.
It looks like what i want :-)


EDIT:
It is very good !!!
But one i want to change: The Background in the main menu is ok, but in the musik, video....library it will be zoomed.
I don´t find the "switch" to display it normal, not in the baseskin.xml or menu or in the library xml files.
Do you know where it can be found ?

EDIT2:
Ok, i must only copy an other image from the "dark" "full" .... folder, now in the librarys it will be show the same picture.
Now i must edit somthing, but i think its easier to edit a little as the full skin ;-)

Tanks for your Answer !!!!!