Skin - view further into the future, scale the guide

[Vitenka]

I'm working on a modifcation to the main guide screen to make it useful for planning recordings, and would like to see more then 3 hours ahead.

How can I scale the guide down so that it shows further ahead?

Making it a smaller width gives the scaling effect I want for the hours it shows - and makes room for more; but of course doesn't use that space up.

and "@250minutes" seems to just appear as raw text.

[mvallevand]

I'm working on a modifcation to the main guide screen to make it useful for planning recordings, and would like to see more then 3 hours ahead.

How can I scale the guide down so that it shows further ahead?

Making it a smaller width gives the scaling effect I want for the hours it shows - and makes room for more; but of course doesn't use that space up.

and "@250minutes" seems to just appear as raw text.

It's not what you are asking but do you know that ctrl-f/r page by 3 hours? I've experimented with skinning this myself and found after four hours you need to shrink the font down too small for a 10' interface.

Martin

[sub]

Did you find the 'TV Guide Minutes' setting on the Settings->Misc2 screen? It lets you change the number of minutes shown on the TV Guide. Admittedly it only gives you certain options, up to 4 hours. Like Martin, I found it was getting too small beyond that. This gives you a bit more than 3 hours.

[Vitenka]

I wasn't aware I could make the number of columns visible fewer that way, no - but as you say, I can't turn it up.

I've made more horizontal space avalable by removing everything but the channel logo; I just want to display an extra hour.

But that was the hint I needed. Although the UI stops you increasing it that far, you can set:
<VisibleGuideMinutes>300</VisibleGuideMinutes>
In config.xml
There doesn't appear to be any way to show the times above that new hour; but that should be good enough for now.

Thank you. Shame it can't be done from the skin xml, though.

[sub]

I've added more 'TV Guide Minutes' options for the next release, allow you to get it up to 360 minutes.

[Vitenka]

Brilliant; thank you, that would be perfect. Right now setting it manually mostly works; but the setting is lost if I ever go into the settings menu to change anything else.