BlueMCE2 Skin causing GBPVR not to load

[dottore]

ok, thanks for the hard work, i'll take a look at it and add the thing to the wiki. maybe tomorrow. no i have to learn for my exam tomorrow

[Pilot]

fastfind is now called xguide. xrecord is more or less supported by the skin. since i don't use it, it is difficult to skin.....it would be really good, if someone using xrecord could skin the x-things.

i'll have a look at acidfiend2003's changes and will hopefully release an updated version this week.

I previously tried the "X" series of plugins, but had problems with them, mostly because they did a lot more than what I wanted. I saw a message here about just using Fast Find by itself (which is the main thing I wanted), so I just used it and not the rest of the "X" plugins.

[gjen]

This is the best Skin by far. Keep it

Very much a Wife Factor Acceptace value of 10/10

[Pilot]

Just FYI, I cannot cancel an active recording while using the BlueMCE2 skin. I'm using the default Recordings plug-in, and when I go into Pending recordings, highlight what is currently being recorded, and then click the Cancel button, GB-PVR just locks up. However, when I exit GB-PVR, manually edit the config.xml file to change the skin back to the default Blue, I am able to cancel the active recording while using the default Blue skin. I also tried going through TV Guide while using BlueMCE2 and the same thing occurs -- I get a lockup when I try to cancel an active recording. I manually edit config.xml to switch skins for this situation only because otherwise it would restart the recording service if I used the Config app and I had other active recordings going (three tuners) that I didn't want to cancel or otherwise mess up when the recording service was restarted by the Config app.

I thought that was kind of weird that a skin could cause a problem like that. Anyone have any ideas or better yet has this happened to anyone else? I was able to continually reproduce the problem by trying to cancel active test recordings. Blue, Flat Blue, Color Collection SE, Christmas, and my own modified version of Blue skin worked fine for cancelling active recordings.

[dottore]

it's a skin-problem, there is a popup missing in the skin.xml-file. just wait a few days.....

[Pilot]

Who would've thought a skin could cause such a problem? I guess it does make sense after delving into various XML files myself. Anyway, now that I know it's fixable in the skin, I'm sure I can compare it to the default Blue skin and figure out what's missing. I should've done that anyway. I just didn't really think that it would be fixable via the skin.

Sorry -- I hope it didn't appear that I was being pushy and trying to get you to come out with an 0.95.14 compatible version of the skin. Take your time. I'm sure we'll all wait patiently. I know that you're getting a bit bogged down with maintaining this skin, so I don't want you to think that I was demanding a newer version or anything of the sort.

[dottore]

no problem. sometimes i need to be pushed

if you want a quick and dirty solution: copy the delete-popup - composite-image from the blue skin to the bluemce2-skin. copy following lines to the skin.xml in the recordings-folder:



<!-- delete confirmation popup -->
<CompositeImage name="DeleteConfirmationPopup" size="720,480">
<DrawRoundedRect loc="180,130" size="435,170" radius="10" borderWidth="4" borderColor="White" fillColor="Black"/>
<DrawText text="@prompt" loc="190,145" size="480,30" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Left" visible="true"/>
<DrawText text="@itemToDelete" loc="200,185" size="410,22" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Left" visible="true"/>
<Element name="OK" loc="265,252" size="130,38"/>
<Element name="Cancel" loc="395,252" size="130,38"/>
</CompositeImage>

oh, forgot to mention: i passed the test ;-) now going on for bluemce2.....

[McBainUK]

Another thumbs up for BlueMCE2 from me dottore.

I've had a go at making a BlueMCE2 skin for my UK Cinemas plugin. Can include it in your zip if you want (prob need a little tweaking 1st)

[acidfiend2003]

if you want a quick and dirty solution: copy the delete-popup - composite-image from the blue skin to the bluemce2-skin. copy following lines to the skin.xml in the recordings-folder:

Thanks for the heads up. I'm beginning to have fun with this skinning business, so I ended up playing about with it, and came up with the following:-

Code:

<!-- delete confirmation popup -->
<CompositeImage name="DeleteConfirmationPopup" size="720,480">
<DrawImage filename="..\resources\popup_wide.png" loc="110,100" size="500,185"/>
<DrawText text="@prompt" loc="110,140" size="500,45" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Center" visible="true"/>
<DrawText text="@itemToDelete" loc="110,175" size="500,45" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Center" visible="true"/>
<Element name="OK" loc="210,215" size="130,45"/>
<Element name="Cancel" loc="380,215" size="130,45"/>
</CompositeImage>

Regards
Dave

[Pilot]

I know...this skinning thing is addicting. The other evening when I upgraded to the latest version, I was dinking around and tweaking my own modified Blue skin for about four hours. At the time it seemed like it had been just 30 minutes!