Skinning bugs

[Heyt]

Hi there!

i've just started this because it is always very complicated to find the right topic to post another skinning "bug" or skinning feature request. So i will post them here.

First a short list of things that i already posted and that are worked on.

fastfind (the other plugins of jorm) adding skinnability to the popups and some other small things
recordings some problems with the size of update and manual recording elements (i hope sub read it within my skin topic (Water/Leaf))

And then to new requests:
1. Weather plugin: Would it be possible to recalculate windspeed and pressure to kmh and bar (or MPa) like it's done with temperate?
2. Jukebox plugin: I'm searching for someone who will add skinnability to the jukebox plugin, because the developer won't work on it any more.

[reven]

i have to redo a few things in the weather plugin, i might add the ability to change it to kmh never heard of bar or MPa, if you give me alittle info on it, ill see what i can do. i have change the temp and outlook(the big temp eg 20C and text beneath it say "windy&quot so you can change their individual position and alignment. also update the config so we gbpvr is upgrade the settings are kept.

[Heyt]

reven: bar used to be the standard international pressure unit (and it is very often used in technical issues). And MPa means Mega Pascal. Where pascal is now the offical standard internation pressure unit. And now the problem i'm not so sure about the pressure unit used in wheather plugin. Does "in" mean inch of mercury at 60°F? Because this would basically fit the conversion. If so you had to multiply the pressure value you get with 33.7685 (and yes the 4 digits after the point are important) and you would recieve pressure in hPa (hectoPascal).
And if you work on the plugin, could you insert a "°" sign to the Temperature? It looks quite strange to me as an engineer student without it.

tipstir: there are some problems with the width of some objects if you build a skin where you don't use 50 pixels on each side (for TV screen reasons). They are just to big and you can't make them smaller. For a briefer description see my post in my skin topic http://gbpvr.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?...

[reven]

ok once im done with "my programs" ill take another look at the weather plugin, i wasnt the original developer im just the last person to update it, and all i changed was pretty much the skins and translations. so im not sure what the "in" means but im sure i can find it out. once i get all the info together, i might need your help with the conversion calculations, or at least a website that displays them.

im not sure if the "°" will appear since its not a standard character and some fonts change this, different languages etc. but chances are it will be able to be displayed, just not 100% sure.

[Heyt]

yes indeed i'm working on a PAL skin. But as i think there is no differnce to NTSC because the GBPVR screen resolution is done in the plugin itself. So we both should work on 720x480 skins.
That you don't have the problem might mean that you did not set the elements so much on the right side as i did, or i did something wrong. Could you send me a copy of your recordings skin.xml so i can see the difference?

[Heyt]

I have no doubt that there are some displaying differences between PAL and NTSC.

But i actually talking about an element of "recordings" where you can't change the width. But as you said there would be no problem with your skin i downloaded it from your 3d blue recordings topic and looked into the skin.xml. And there i found why you don't have my problem. You put your ManualRecordingControls element to an x pos of 45 to have it centered and by this you have the whole screen width. But i set it to x pos 66 and don't use the last 54 horizontal pixels for the popup. So i have actually much less space then you and have to reduce the size of the element.
OK, maybe i did something wrong in my skin, so i tried to change your skin.xml in a way that there is the same error. I just changed the x pos of the element and reduced the width to make it stay centered (like i would need it).
Here the changed line:
<SpecialElement name="ManualRecordingControls" loc="65,80" size="70,28" spacing="6"/>
And yes i reproduced the same error.
On the screen i marked the problem in my skin and in yours as well. It is just the problem that you can't define the size of the element.

[Heyt]

yes the problem does not exist for you i know. And as i already said it does not exist for you because you can position the element in a way that there is enough space for it.
But did you ever tried to make it smaller (for any reason) ... just try and you will see that you can't make it smaller. And yes i know that there is no need to make it smaller for you, but there are maybe other people like me who would like to have a smaller element.
I don't know why argue about it. It is a fact that you can't resize the element and the reason for making it smaller don't matter.

[Heyt]

how did you fix the problem with the overlapping texts. Just made the text smaller or changed the font? But still this only a workaround. Don't missunderstand me that's a good way to fix a problem and i try to do it the same way as often as possible. But i'm afraid there is no solution for my problem without changing the hole look of my skin (or changing the program code). I need the border of let's say 40 to 50 pixels (at least for PAL) for the overscan region that is not visible on a TV screen. Is in NTSC also an overscan region on TV?

[sub]

Heyt, I had intended to look at some of these skinning issues before the next release, but unfortunately a bug has forced me to pull the release forward a bit, which ultimately means less time to focus on these lower priority bugs. That said, if you can summarise the issues you've encountered in the core GB-PVR components and email the list to me at support@devnz.com, I'll see if I can fix some of them for the release in a few days.

[Heyt]

Hi everybody!

Just started working on my skin again after some weeks of exams.
The first thing i did was that i've changed my 4:3 NTSC skin to a 16:9 PAL one. (Some screens will follow soon -> see the links i added in the bugs part of the post)
But now i have found some new skinning problems. Here's a list of all the thinks i had problems with. I hope that the problems will be fixed in some of the next releases.

Recordings - Textheight in recordings hard coded (Ready, Pending, Reoccuring, Conflicts(?)) [Recordings1.jpg]
          - titlewidth subtitlewidth only works for Pending, Reoccuring, Conflicts(?)
          - Update-Popup: · None of the elements can be freely positioned / skinned
                                  · The Popup cannot be seen/drawn after 720 Pixels in width
          - Manual Record-Popup: · None of the elements can be freely positioned / skinned [Recordings2.jpg]

TV Guide   - Cannot set Number of hours to be displayed
          - Record-Popup: see Recordings - Update-Popup [TVGuide.jpg]

Net Radio  - Deleted channels will be reinstalled automatically
          - "StationButtons" can not be skinned (do it like in recordings) [NetRadio.jpg]

RSS News   - Plugin uses a fixed size of 720x480
(v.3)      - Pressing right without data loaded will crash GBPVR
          - Filters in newsfeeds.xml will crash the plugin
          - Filters just dels the charakter and not change it to another
          - Feeds/News are not skinnable (size, shape, images,position) (could be handled like the buttons in other plugins)
          - Pop-up not skinnable at all
          - Objkect Descriptions in skin.xml totaly unclear
[News.jpg]

Comics     - Plugin uses a fixed size of 720x480
(v.2)      - All 3 elements are not skinnable (size, shape, images, position)
          - Selections are not skinnable (could be handled like the buttons in other plugins)
          - Zoom-Windows is not skinnable (should be skinnable seperately)
          - Objkect Descriptions in skin.xml totaly unclear
[Comics.jpg]

Weather    - Possibility to set position for every line in Current and Forecast seperately
(v2.21)    - the "°"sign is missing in temperatures
          - Possibility to change pressure and velocities to metric system
[weather.jpg]