Community Skin support thread

[Fatman_do]

You will see under the SkinPlugin folder, Baseskin and MainMenus folders. If you have customized versions of those, copy them there as well.

[Fatman_do]

The SkinPlugin having a "Save Theme" feature is on the to-do list. McBainUK's work with that plugin is the sole reason why this is such a versatile Do-It-Yourself theme skin.

[mmatheny]

Not sure if this is where to ask this, but could you (or whomever wrote the Skin plugin) make the button colors (for the Hauppauge remote) hotspots so I could use a mouse in the Skin plugin for all aspects (such as browsing themes)?

[Fatman_do]

This is the right place.....

That is McBainUK's territory, and he will respond to anything technical about the plugin that I am unable to address (this is one of them).

However, if you are using a mouse and keyboard, you can press ctrl-b for blue, ctrl-r for red, ect.

[McBainUK]

I don't know how difficult this would be, but is there any way that once you have tweaked a theme to how you like it, you could name it, save it, and reload it? I've had to redo it twice in the past after either upgrading or breaking stuff.

I'd try and do it in Explorer, but I'm not sure which files/ directories I need to save.

This is on the todo list.

make the button colors (for the Hauppauge remote) hotspots

This has been added also.

[mmatheny]

I am still getting this everytime I launch the program with the commandline to go to live tv, and I press the Menu key - the live TV image is missing. I dismiss the error, go back into live TV and press Menu and all is well. It only occurs on the first time I go back to the Menu from Live TV.

[mmatheny]

I will try that to see if I still get the Object Reference not found error mentioned above.

[McBainUK]

Do you get the error with the Blue skin also?

[mmatheny]

Why is the 2.1.2 version 1/5 the size of all the other 2.x versions?

[McBainUK]

I believe it is because the skin xml (layout) files have been seperated from the SkinPlugin and its images. This saves having to download 20mb+ for every layout tweak.