Blu bar during pause

[msrtlt]

Hello,

When pausing a video, a blue bar appears towards the bottom of the screen with the file's name. Is it possible to remove it? The reason for this is that sometimes I'd like to examine the frame more carefully, and the blue bar (or ribbon) is really in the way.

Thanks

[bgowland]

Try pressing Ctrl-B (Blue button or equivalent when using a remote). It works for me.

Cheers,
Brian

[msrtlt]

Thanks a lot. It does work for me as well. However, is it possible to set this behaviour as default, because it would be annoying to do this each time after pressing pause. Finicky, I know, but if there's a way, why not?

[Jaggy]

If you edit your OSD skin file you can remove it entirely (use something like NOTEPAD.EXE to edit it)

If you are using the default "blue" skin look in "\gbpvr\Skin2\blue\OSD" & edit the "skin.xml" & look for this section

Code:

    <CompositeImage name="VideoShowInfo" size="100,25">
        <DrawRect loc="0,0" size="100,100" fillColor="#AF000000"/>
        <DrawRoundedRect loc="3,3" size="94,25" fillColor="#CF000070" borderColor="Transparent" radius="1" borderWidth="0"/>
        <DrawTextWithOutline text="@title" loc="5,3" size="90,25" textStyle="OsdTextLargeStyle" outlineWidth="2" borderColor="Black" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
        <DrawTextWithOutline text="@currentTime" loc="5,3" size="90,25" textStyle="OsdTextLargeStyle" outlineWidth="2" borderColor="Black" align="Right" valign="Center"/>
        <DrawText text="@description" loc="5,35" size="90,75" textStyle="OsdTextStyle" align="Left"/>
    </CompositeImage>

just add the "<!--" & "-->" like below

Code:

<!--    <CompositeImage name="VideoShowInfo" size="100,25">
        <DrawRect loc="0,0" size="100,100" fillColor="#AF000000"/>
        <DrawRoundedRect loc="3,3" size="94,25" fillColor="#CF000070" borderColor="Transparent" radius="1" borderWidth="0"/>
        <DrawTextWithOutline text="@title" loc="5,3" size="90,25" textStyle="OsdTextLargeStyle" outlineWidth="2" borderColor="Black" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
        <DrawTextWithOutline text="@currentTime" loc="5,3" size="90,25" textStyle="OsdTextLargeStyle" outlineWidth="2" borderColor="Black" align="Right" valign="Center"/>
        <DrawText text="@description" loc="5,35" size="90,75" textStyle="OsdTextStyle" align="Left"/>
    </CompositeImage> -->

this will remove it entirely & it won't display the name & description at all, maybe what you want but I would just rather press the blue button myself.

[msrtlt]

Thank you very much for this!
One more thing - My video and audio files have long names and so are being cut of when say, a contents of a directory is displayed. How can I make GBPVR to allocate more space so the file names display in full?

Is there documentation of these xml files and what they do?
Thank you very much again.

[Jaggy]

Sorry I haven't seen any real documentation for skinning, what I did when I started out making my own skin was copy the default "blue" skin to a different directory name (I used "blue2") & I downloaded some other skins off the wiki & then did comparisons of the "skin.xml" files & made alterations to my blue2 skin to see what happened. Most of the skin files are self explanatory as to what they are ie Music library, Video Library etc. it is only the OSD & Popups that can be fun to find out what does what.

To answer your first question yes you can alter it to display more than one line of text, I have done this using big fonts in my Blue-Retro-SHV skin but it is a bit more involved than what we did to stop the name displaying.

Have a play & if you get stuck post another message & I (or one of the other skinners) will try to point you in the right direction.

[msrtlt]

I don't want to display more than one line - I just want to make the line longer - ie to display more characters (keeping their size the same). I noticed that each list element has a size attribute, but I did not manage to increase the displayed length by changing this size attribute.

[msrtlt]

I rummaged about all xml files I could find and tried to update various fields, but no success. All I tried to do is to make file name fields to be longer in the directory browser. It must be possible! Any hints?

[Jaggy]

I don't want to display more than one line - I just want to make the line longer - ie to display more characters (keeping their size the same). I noticed that each list element has a size attribute, but I did not manage to increase the displayed length by changing this size attribute.

Whoops sorry I misread this message & thought you had it sorted the way you wanted it. I was assuming you were using the blue skin & that is why I mentioned looking at my skin for comparisons & displaying on more than one line as by default the blue skin takes up the full width of the screen & there is really no way to make it wider. I'm now thinking you are using the slick skin? If so for the video library look in "\gbpvr\Skin2\slick\video library" & in the skin.xml look for

<Placement name="ListView" loc="2,24.5" size="40,4.5" spacing="5.0" rows="11"/>

<CompositeImage name="ListViewxxxxxx" size="40,4.5">

& try increasing it to something like size="50,4.5" (there are six "ListViewxxxxxx" items to change).

[msrtlt]

Ok, thank you - it worked. What confused me, is that although my layout is as in "slick" (ie horizontal main menu bar), but the background is blue. Also, when I made changes in the OSD directory, it was under the "blue" directory. The "slick" does not even have OSD subdirectory.But to increase the length of list items I changed the numbers as you've recommended in the skin.xml which is in the Video Library under the "slick" directory... So all a bit confusing, but works...