BaseSkin and ThemePacks

[MixMan]

I will post Known Limitations and Bugs here.

Updated the BaseSkin to v2.5 on the Wiki

The big difference is that BaseSkin is split to 2 parts
BaseSkin and BaseSKinPlugins.

Introduced a system variable &SKINROOT% that will be used for next update of ThemePacks.
Run InstallSkin.bat to run SkinRoot program and install Blank font

Skin files change
Changed the loading order of Background_Mask.png
Implemented earlier fixes, found in support thread.
Changed XML values to fix "minor bugs" and appearance of popups in TVguilde, Recordings, Video, System, Photo.



BaseSkin 2.2 issues known
Recordings menu, Title and SubTiltle are overlapping....update recording skin
Recordings menu, descrition firld now big enough....update Tvguide skin


Plugin "bugs" with ThemePacks
There are no known limitations to the ThemePacks themself,
but several plugins does not handle task images correct. This will result in that icons for the plugin are not shown in main menu for some themes like.....SharperEdge and Horizon
These plugins are News, Solitaire, Calculator, SecurityCam, XRecord, XSearch, XGuide....

Plugin "misbehaviour"
The Xrecord series plugins also behave strange and does not rescale the images correct when a higher resolution is used in the main menu for a Theme or with the Horizon Theme.

Appearance Manager Support
Only Contour and MCE2BlueAM ThemePacks works with AM.

Apply a ThemePack on BaseSkin
To apply a ThemePack, just run the EXE file and it will replace all graphics and som sub menus...... Main Menu, OSD submenu, Panels submenu
The EXE file is created with WinRar so it is possible to extract the content into a sub directory of the /skins/baseskin/allbaseskins/ directory and apply the themepacks from the theme directory named Advisor.xxxx
Just run the bat file CopyTheme.bat and the theme graphics will be copied to the skin.
I work that way. I have almost 30 Advisor.xxxx theme directories now.
So I use many Theme designs.

Download skin
BaseSkin v2.5
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Skin/BaseSkin

Download Themes
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Skin/...ThemePacks

ThemesManager with ThemePacks in the BaseSkin
Download the ThemesManager from the Wiki
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/ThemesManager
Download and Save the ThemePacks to the BaseSkin root.
UnZip the Advisor.XXXX.exe with WinRar to an Advisor.XXXX sub direcory.

I have started to redo all ThemePacks so they will extract themself with directly into an Advisor.XXXX directory instead of the /allbaseskins, as they do now.

Plugin updates

[fhmanas]

Have tried it with the appearance plug-in, only the Main Menu background is changed, everything remains as well. Buttons, task images, sub menus don't change.

[MixMan]

Only some Themes that I have made, works with AM
The Contour and MCE2BlueAM works with AM.
It is easy to make or change a Theme for the BaseSkin.
Have a look at the Wiki to find out how.
Also have a look at Fatman_do's Chamelion. That skin is a mix of BaseSkin and AM support.

[nemulate]

Any news on an update to baseskin? Especially recording menu Title, subtitle fix amd also are you aware of problem on home screen with recording info and task title overlapping at bottom or is this because I'm using AM to change some of the skin?

[Fatman_do]

Any news on an update to baseskin? Especially recording menu Title, subtitle fix amd also are you aware of problem on home screen with recording info and task title overlapping at bottom or is this because I'm using AM to change some of the skin?

AM only swaps out buttons and backgrounds. Mixman is usually good at updating bugs once they are identified (I can root around and see if I can find my fix for the recordings issue and post it). Main Menu "bugs" may be theme specific so it may help him to know which you are using.

(Apologies to MixMan if I am hijacking your support. I am bored today and don't want to skin too much more with Chameleon until the next release comes out and Reven's plugins move to closer "final" than beta as far as skins go.)

[nemulate]

All help is appreciated Its the MCE2 theme by the way!

[McBainUK]

Heres my editied recordings skin (Baseskin.MCE)

[McBainUK]

Have made it more like the recordings screen (used images for list items to get rid of the horrid black and used the standard 'listbackground' image to better match other screens)

Be great if this was included in the Baseskin.

Mark

[MixMan]

Sorry guys for not responding so quick.
Thanks Fatman_do for hijacking the thread. You are the expert on Appearance Manager.
MCE2 Blue AM is the only Themepack that support AM buttons and menus (not SkinEffects)
I would be happy if Fatman_do would polish this ThemePack and make it "perfect" to work with AM and his SkinPacks for MCE2.

I am happy to include plugin skins and updates to next release, if you just post them as you did.
I updated the first post in this tread.

[Fatman_do]

I would be happy if Fatman_do would polish this ThemePack and make it "perfect" to work with AM and his SkinPacks for MCE2.

Ok, maybe sometime next week I will start on it. It won't take long I imagine.