NPVR Skins - just Logos ? ... i.e. No Channel Number or Channel Name ?

[jksmurf]

Awesome, thanks NP!

[jksmurf]

Could someone help me identify how to do this in the default skin?

[jksmurf]

Sorry to bump this again, but I switched to the default skin to take advantage of the Musicbox plugin, and lost the drop-in xml the skin devleopers made for the BlueRetroVE+ and Blue Skins, that gives me just channel logos in the TV Guide, i.e. No Channel Number or Channel Name.

Really appreciate it if there was an option to select this in settings, or a drop-in xml for the TVGuide.

Cheers

k.

[Jaggy]

I have basically finished the BRVE+ MB4 skin (plus 95% of the full update to the main skin) if you would like to PM me an email address I can send you out the new version.

[Barsk]

What resolution should the logos be in to avoid any stretching?

[tieke]

What resolution should the logos be in to avoid any stretching?

As long as you keep the fixedAspectRatio="true" statement in the Guide.xml skin file, the logos shouldn't be stretched.

I did a quick bodge of my default guide a while ago - in the Guide.xml file just after the Element name="Channels" part I just commented out the number and channel name lines (ie put a <!-- at the start of the line and [B]-->[/B at the end) and changed the icon line to:

Code:

<Image source="@icon" location="11,7" size="75,73" fixedAspectRatio="true" align="Center" valign="Center"/>

This means the channel column doesn't get any narrower, but it fits in well with the size and aspect of my logos.

cheers,

tieke

(My full guide.xml file is as follows, but it's just the original with the changes above)

Code:

<Skin>
    <Element name="GuideDateTime" location="1.55,12.36" size="15.45,3.86" alpha="255">
        <RoundedRect location="0,1" size="110,130" fillColor="Guide_Timeline" borderColor="Transparent" radius="1.55" borderWidth="0"/>
            <Rect location="0,92" size="50,6.95" fillColor="Accent1_Horizontal_FadeIn"/>
            <Rect location="49.9,92" size="50.1,6.95" fillColor="Accent1_Horizontal_FadeOut"/>
        <Text text="@dateTime" location="0,0" size="100,100" font="DefaultMinimum" align="Center" valign="Center"/>
    </Element>

    <Element name="GuideTimeLine" location="17.77,12.36" size="80.68,3.86" alpha="255">
        <RoundedRect location="-10,1" size="110,130" fillColor="Guide_Timeline" borderColor="Transparent" radius="1.55" borderWidth="0"/>
            <Rect location="0,92" size="50.1,6.95" fillColor="Accent2_Horizontal_FadeIn"/>
            <Rect location="50,92" size="50,6.95" fillColor="Accent2_Horizontal_FadeOut"/>
        <Image source="@recordingHighlight" location="0,0" size="100,90"/>
        <Text text="@0minutes" location="@0minutesX,0" size="100,100" font="DefaultMinimum" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
        <Text text="@30minutes" location="@30minutesX,0" size="100,100" font="DefaultMinimum" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
        <Text text="@60minutes" location="@60minutesX,0" size="100,100" font="DefaultMinimum" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
        <Text text="@90minutes" location="@90minutesX,0" size="100,100" font="DefaultMinimum" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
        <Text text="@120minutes" location="@120minutesX,0" size="100,100" font="DefaultMinimum" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
        <Text text="@150minutes" location="@150minutesX,0" size="100,100" font="DefaultMinimum" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
        <Text text="@180minutes" location="@180minutesX,0" size="100,100" font="DefaultMinimum" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
        <Text text="@210minutes" location="@210minutesX,0" size="100,100" font="DefaultMinimum" align="Left" valign="Center"/>
    </Element>



    <Element name="Guide" location="17.77,16.6" size="80.68,6.12" alpha="255" visibleChannels="8" wrapText="false" backgroundColor="backgroundColor" selectedColor="selectedColor" recordingColor="recordingColor" recordingSelectedColor="recordingSelectedColor">
        <Rect location="0,0" size="100,100" fillColor="Black"/>
    </Element>

    <Element name="Channels" location="1.55,16.6" size="15.45,6.12" alpha="255" clearBeforeRender="true">
        <Rect location="0.2,0" size="99.6,100" fillColor="Channels"/>
    <!--    <Text text="@number" location="3,0" size="94,100" font="DefaultMinimum" align="Left" valign="Center"/> -->
        <Image source="@icon" location="11,7" size="75,73" fixedAspectRatio="true" align="Center" valign="Center"/>
    </Element>

    <Element name="SelectedShowDetails" location="1.55,67.36" size="96.9,24.72" alpha="255">
        <RoundedRect location="0,-8" size="100,108" fillColor="Guide_Description" borderColor="Transparent" radius="2.32" borderWidth="0"/>
        <Rect location="0,0" size="50,1.15" fillColor="Accent2_Horizontal_FadeIn"/>
        <Rect location="49.95,0" size="50.05,1.15" fillColor="Accent2_Horizontal_FadeOut"/>
        <Text text="@titleSubtitle" location="1.55,3.09" size="96.9,20" font="Title1" borderColor="Border2" outlineWidth="1" align="Left"/>
        <Text text="@shortperiod" location="1.55,3.09" size="96.9,20" font="Title1" borderColor="Border2" outlineWidth="1" align="right"/>
        <Text text="@description" location="1.55,21.55" size="96.9,73.8" font="DefaultSmall" borderColor="Border2" outlineWidth="1" wrap="true"/>
    </Element>



    <Element name="CurrentTimeAbove" location="0,0" size="1.15,1.15">            
        <Image source="..\_Common\Down.png" location="0,0" size="100,100"/>
    </Element>

    <Element name="CurrentTimeBelow" location="0,0" size="1.15,1.15">
        <Image source="..\_Common\Up.png" location="0,0" size="100,100"/>
    </Element>

</Skin>

[jksmurf]

Thanks tieke, might try to do a bit of surgery on the Guide.xml file...
Do you happen to have a screen-grab of the resultant guide?

I only have 6 channels, so for me the icons are all I need, I'd love to get rid of the Channel number and name taking up the screen real estate ....

k.

[Barsk]

As long as you keep the fixedAspectRatio="true" statement in the Guide.xml skin file, the logos shouldn't be stretched.

Actually, what I ment was what size to have them to avoid resizing. Resizing always degrades the quality of graphics so if there was a standard size then I could strive for it. However after having looked in the Guide.xml myself I concluded that it was not worth optimizing for. It seems to be dependant of the skin etc how big the logos get. I just put some 200x or thereabout logos there and commented out the channel number column just as you did and I am happy with that.

[sub]

Actually, what I ment was what size to have them to avoid resizing. Resizing always degrades the quality of graphics so if there was a standard size then I could strive for it.

It'd depend what resolution your desktop is running at.

To be honest, I dont think resizing them is a big deal as long as a the icons are big enough to have quite a bit of detail.

[Barsk]

No, it's not a big deal. Although I have delt with resizing graphics a fair bit at work. When downscaling scanned documents for instance great care has to be taken to what algorithms to use to have it readable at screen dpi. And having larger source documents often produces worse output... Illogical but true. One of the algos I tried (with some success) is to downscale by 2 repeatedly and then by the last little bit. That gives better quality than scaling in one step at a cost of speed. At least with bilinear scaling. So one way to go is to create statically scaled images with the res you want using a slow but great quality algo (like lanczos) and use them without rescaling. That is how I nowdays do my webapps with document viewing. Takes ages to prepare a document store, but gives the users a great quality and fast experiance on the web since all pictures are prescaled.
I am unsure as what scaling alogos .NET has in store though. The scaling that is done on-the-fly for thumbnails and photo viewer is pretty good actually and really fast. I am stuck in Java...

Well, I am rambling. Sorry

However what res could be needed as a max for the logos taking say 1600x desktop res in count?