Positioning of elements in skins (...and some other questions)

[sub]

While i plan the layout of the skin, i already tried a little. I saw some methods of displaying bitmaps like:
<Image source="Panel_ScreenName.png" location="0,0" size="100,100"/>
or
<Image location="0,0" size="100,100" source="button_background.png" />
possible more...

What is the difference between Image source / Image location and the other commands?

Those to commands are exactly the same. The order of attributes isnt important. ie, they each have filename source, and location of "0,0" and a size of "100,100".

For what is the vertical.xml within the Skin/Default/Menu folder? I removed this one without something happens to the main menu?

Vertical.xml was just a test file that isnt used. It was part of a demo for skinners of how to create a vertical menu. ie, rename vertical.xml to menu.xml, and edit global.xml to add <MenuType>Vertical</MenuType> then the application will use a vertical menu.

[ShiningDragon]

Hi sub ^.^

And more questions. For now i stuck onto the mainmenu.

How about...

... Video Inset? Is it already working/will it be added?
... Display of current channelnumber and show?
... "Now recording" Indicator? Is it possible to display a current recording through 2 small bitmaps (recording light on / off)?
... "Running Text" (i wish, that McBainUK will start it's RSS Feed)? Were it in general possible to display running text in the main menu?

And another dumb question of me: Is it possible to disable AntiAliasing just for one textfield? Under normal condition, AA is perfekt for fonts, but if i would use a font like Digiface (as example for the date / clock) it wouldn't be looking very well and sharp.

ATM i think of a layout like this (missing date/time ; weather ; message panel ; recording indicator for now):

[sub]

... Video Inset? Is it already working/will it be added?

Its not there at the moment. I did start working on it, but its been pushed aside with other more important stuff to do. I'll get back to it at some stage in the future.

... Display of current channelnumber and show?

Where abouts?

... "Now recording" Indicator? Is it possible to display a current recording through 2 small bitmaps (recording light on / off)?
... "Running Text" (i wish, that McBainUK will start it's RSS Feed)? Were it in general possible to display running text in the main menu?

Its not currently possible to display any panels or equivalent on the main menu. Maybe in a future release though. This was fringe feature in GBPVR that was used by very few people, so its hard to commit time to it at this stage of the project when there is so much other stuff still to be done.

And another dumb question of me: Is it possible to disable AntiAliasing just for one textfield? Under normal condition, AA is perfekt for fonts, but if i would use a font like Digiface (as example for the date / clock) it wouldn't be looking very well and sharp.

You cant currently disable AA, but I'll try to add a skin setting on <Text> to allow you do this.

[ShiningDragon]

I'll get back to it at some stage in the future.

Yeah, this i hoped to read by you. I'll prepare this in the skin.

Where abouts?

Especially within the mainmenu, if the videoinset will work someday. You're seeing the bar under the big window; i plan to display the current watched show on the left and the channelnumber (3-digit) on the right side.
The windows have a doublefunction: The shall display information of the Web Radio 3.x Plugin too (tag, stationlogo, cover of played track)

This was fringe feature in GBPVR that was used by very few people...

4 years ago i planned to make a massive usage of all the abilities. The BETA Skin worked already, but then came many changes to gb-pvr, which i couldn't understand for full, some of the plugin-developers didn't made more and i got heavy involved with business and family.
I have some ideas to take advantage of all the functions and i am really happy, that nPVR is progress vom scratch. So it is more easily to understand it step by step.

so its hard to commit time to it at this stage of the project when there is so much other stuff still to be done.

This is right, don't hurry because of me. I am just planning around, because i wish to set a basic layout (the functions itself could be added later).

You cant currently disable AA, but I'll try to add a skin setting on <Text> to allow you do this.

This is wunderful. Thank you, sub.