Post your Community Skin themes and custom set-ups

[TomH]

TomH could you try out the attached skin.xml. All I changed was the color scheme, I left the formatting exactly as it was.

I'd like to stress that this is Fatman_do's territory but I'd like to try and help out. It might be a good idea to backup the original 5-channel VeryLargePrint skin.xml file

Hairy,
Beauteous... you are too kind! And, I have a model to learn from.

And thanks for the _very_ nice theme you developed for all of us!

Cheers,
Tom "going home to Sligo Town" H

[Fatman_do]

TomH could you try out the attached skin.xml. All I changed was the color scheme, I left the formatting exactly as it was.

I'd like to stress that this is Fatman_do's territory but I'd like to try and help out. It might be a good idea to backup the original 5-channel VeryLargePrint skin.xml file

Hairy (and anyone else for that matter). Help out as much as you wish. It isn't "Fatman_do's" skin, I just maintain it. I appreciate all and any help.

[Hairy]

It isn't "Fatman_do's" skin

I meant more the fact that you know what you're doing and I don't . I'm afraid that I'll make it worse.

I have another question. How do I configure TV Listings so it shows each channel's channel number plus an JPG image of the network, like is shown in the wiki? RIght now it just displays the channel number.

LewE, have you tried using the "7-channel TV Guide Alternate" option in the skin plugin?

[Hairy]

And thanks for the _very_ nice theme you developed for all of us!

And thanks for the thanks Tom "going home to Sligo Town" H

[Fatman_do]

In a TV Guide skin.xml to show Channel Number+Icon, the ChannelHeaderItem element would be like this..

Code:

<CompositeImage name="ChannelHeaderItem" size="10.5,10.5">
[COLOR="SeaGreen"]<!--DrawCommonImage name="TextBackgroundNarrow"/-->
[/COLOR]    <DrawText text="@channelNumber" visible="@showIconAndName" loc="0,5" size="34,90" textStyle="TimelineStyle" align="Right" valign="center"/>
    <DrawImage filename="@channelIcon" visible="@showIconAndName" fixedAspectRatio="true" loc="26,5" size="80,86"/>
</CompositeImage>

[Fatman_do]

In TV Listings, to show Number+Icon the ChannelHeader element would look like this.

Code:

<CompositeImage name="ChannelHeader" size="13,9">
[COLOR="SeaGreen"]<!-- supported parameters are @icon, @name, @number -->
<!-- visible="@noIcon" will only be drawn if there is no icon for the channel available -->
<!--DrawCommonImage name="TextBackground"/-->[/COLOR]
      <DrawImage filename="@icon" loc="38,1" size="60,98" fixedAspectRatio="true"/>
      <DrawText text="@number" visible="true" loc="0,30" size="36,40" textStyle="TimelineStyle" align="Right" valign="center"/>
</CompositeImage>

This is default with the CommunitySkin.

Note, you may not see icons due to them not being setup on your system. Search the forums on how to setup channel icons.

[Fatman_do]

Guide2j is a little different. You would need to change these SpecialElements like this.

Code:

<SpecialElement name="Guide" loc="130,58" metadata="true" visibleChannels="7" channelRowHeight="4-" showNavigation="false" borderWidth="2" rounded="false" showChannelIcons="true" showChannelNumberAlway="true" showRecordingBar="true" MinutePixels="3.5" MinuteDraw="180" minutesToMove="30"/>
<SpecialElement name="ChannelNumber" x="70" width="60" />
<SpecialElement name="ChannelNumberOnly" x="10" width="60" />
<SpecialElement name="TimePeriods" loc="155,33" />

Without Icons, the first two columns would be the same, like shown here.

[LewE]

Guide2j is a little different. You would need to change these SpecialElements like this.

Thanks Fatman_do for the answers to the three Guides, even though they are not all your plug-ins.

Since you are pretty active in these forums, I'd like to suggest something for you to bring up to the other developers to decide on the best approach.

The plug-in wikis usually don't give any help in how to customize the plug-ins through editing the XML files. Maybe the authors don't want to make the wikis overly complicated for the casual user (although I suspect that most GB-PVR users tend to want to tweak things for their own preferences).

I'd like to propose that there be a sticky topic in each forum that includes information on what edits the user can make to the XML files, particularly those that aren't obvious. Preferably, it should be restricted who can post to that thread so it just contains the end information the other users may be looking for and the thread doesn't grow to unruly size (see the Community 3.0 Support thread with its 230 entries).

[Fatman_do]

Thanks Fatman_do for the answers to the three Guides, even though they are not all your plug-ins.

Glad to be of help, but truth be told, I don't know the first thing about witting a plugin. I just am a skinning guy.

Learning all the options can be a time consuming process, and really, besides tv guides, most users are ok with the default settings. Sometimes you will find comments in the skin files that clue you in on options.

[roy]

I've updated my Sassari based theme, and named it Rox. I have a custom background mask, baseskin, main menu and TV guide (although I only use TV Listings). I also created new Selectors\Sassari Inactive, which I've wanted for a while now.

I think everything is attached in the zip. Enjoy!