Skin Preview in config app

[McBainUK]

Hi Guys. I've just be given a new laptop (from work but I use it for GB-PVR dev also) and so have been busy setting it up and installing stuff. I've noticed that the CS3 preview shown in the GB-PVR config app is pretty old and only shows a blue skin. Wouldn't it be nice to have a preview showing what the CS3 is about (split into 4 mini previews of some of the themes) and/or the CS3 project logo?

Hairy, you up for it? Size of jpg required is 400x300.

[Fatman_do]

I thought we had it set up to copy the correct preview of the selected theme?

I'll have to check it out when I get home.

[pz1]

This is what I get with latest release of GBPVR and CS

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[Hairy]

Hairy, you up for it?

Yeah sure, my plan was to suggest using the logo (or a slightly jazzed version) for the preview pic, that way it would be constant no matter what theme is used.

I was gonna' include it with the new theme set I've been butting heads with lately (along with a little xml formatting... oh and to add those wiki edits that have been sitting in the wiki sandbox for weeks now :o), I really should have finished this stuff weeks ago. Unfortunately I just can't seem to get the theme to a spot where I'm happy with it. I hope to really get it together by the weekend, but thats what I said last weekend :o

I could probably knock up a few preview pics with the logo, post them here and see what people think?

[Hairy]

I thought we had it set up to copy the correct preview of the selected theme?

I'll have to check it out when I get home.

Ah nuts I really should read the thread first......

My preview stays constant but a dynamic preview of the current CS3 theme would probably be the best bet. I'm up for doing the constant logo one as well though, either way

[McBainUK]

I thought we had it set up to copy the correct preview of the selected theme?

I'll have to check it out when I get home.

Hmm, I think you're right. So my question is what is the default preview.jpg / theme installed?

[Fatman_do]

Hmm, I think you're right. So my question is what is the default preview.jpg / theme installed?

When I remember, I try to set it to reflect-green before packaging up.

Sometimes I forget and have other themes set. My remember-iser is past its warranty though.

[Hairy]

There are a couple of previews for each theme in the "...Plugins\SkinPlugin\Resources\Themes" folder you could use one of those for whichever theme you're using.

[Fatman_do]

I'll have to look at the theme xml files and see if the provision is there and what not.

[Fatman_do]

We would need to add it in.

We used to do this under gbpvr.exe

<EditableSkinItem name="MainMenuEditableSkinItem" type="MainMenu" displayText="Main Menu" imageSetSubdirectoryName="MainMenus" imageFileFilter="preview.jpg" imageTarget="%SKINROOT%\preview.jpg" previewRef="42" forcePreviewNumbers="9"/>

So maybe we should place a file called preview.jpg in the previews folder (usually the main menu) that the skinplugin grabs.