Minor default skin issues & a question about TheTVDb

[smajor]

Hi, I just installed TV Listings... pretty impressive! Nice work!

I noticed two minor skin issues, first:



Notice the start/end time (yellow text). The "M" is cut off. I noticed this only happens when the hour is double-digits for both start and end e.g. 11:00 - 12:00. 12:00 - 1:00 would not have this issue.

Next, this is probably a sub issue... but on the main menu TV Recordings the "s" flows into the selected menu item next to it:



Finally, my TVDb question: is there a way (or could a preference be added) that if you've linked a show to TheTVDb, that it's description overrides/replaces your guide's description. I find them better and more accurate. Obviously, this would have to have some logic that IF TheTVDb doesn't have a description, it would fall back to the guide's.

[imilne]

You could get around the second issue by using the SubMenu plugin and renaming the entry to something shorter.

[pBS]

this fixes the menu item in menu.xml: [just barely]

Code:

<Skin>
    <Element name="ButtonBackground" location="0,67.98" size="100,15.45" alpha="255">    
        <Rect location="0,0" size="100,70" fillColor="Base1_Vertical_FadeOut"/>    
        <Rect location="0,-1.55" size="100,3.09" fillColor="Border2"/>    
        <Rect location="0,0" size="50.02,70" fillColor="Base1_Menu_Horizontal_FadeIn"/>        
        <Rect location="50,0" size="50,70" fillColor="Base1_Menu_Horizontal_FadeOut"/>
    [b]        <RoundedRect location="38.08,13.13" size="23.84,104" fillColor="BaseColor2" borderColor="Accent1_Vertical_FadeOut" radius="2.32" borderWidth="0.15"/> [/b]
                <Rect location="0,65" size="50.02,2.32" fillColor="Accent2_Horizontal_FadeIn"/>
                <Rect location="49.99,65" size="50,2.32" fillColor="Accent2_Horizontal_FadeOut"/>
                    <Rect location="0,67" size="100,33" fillColor="BaseColor2"/>

    </Element>

[b]    <Element name="MenuButton" location="0,0" size="21.18,12.36" >
        <Text text="@buttonText" location="2,24.72" size="100,92" font="MenuItems" borderColor="Border2" outlineWidth="1" align="Center"/>
    [/b]</Element>
</Skin>

my tv guide looks good as well as tvlistings guide...i'm not seeing the am/pm cutoff on mine, maybe a font issue?
maybe move the @shortPeriod a few left to like 76 or so for SelectedShowDetails in tvlistings.xml

[smajor]

I can only think of two things (I'll investigate #2)

1) OS difference? I have Win 7.

2) The original Slate skin came with a couple of Droid Fonts (appeared to be open source). I have those installed, maybe those are still being referenced in the skin from copy/pasting some of the elements?

[alibert]

Hi,

Hi, I just installed TV Listings... pretty impressive! Nice work!

I noticed two minor skin issues, first:



Notice the start/end time (yellow text). The "M" is cut off. I noticed this only happens when the hour is double-digits for both start and end e.g. 11:00 - 12:00. 12:00 - 1:00 would not have this issue.

Next, this is probably a sub issue... but on the main menu TV Recordings the "s" flows into the selected menu item next to it:

I'll add some space for the timespan in the next release, thanks for the report. For the main menu you were right, there's nothing I can do.

Finally, my TVDb question: is there a way (or could a preference be added) that if you've linked a show to TheTVDb, that it's description overrides/replaces your guide's description. I find them better and more accurate. Obviously, this would have to have some logic that IF TheTVDb doesn't have a description, it would fall back to the guide's.

information for linked series from TheTVDB should already be appended to the description automatically. Is that not working?

-alibert

[smajor]

Hi,

information for linked series from TheTVDB should already be appended to the description automatically. Is that not working?

-alibert

Yes, it works great, however as you said, it's appended. It would be nice, as an option or by default, that if TheTVDB has a description, it could replace the description from the guide's xml file. I find that TheTVDBs is more accurate and in most cases better worded and more detailed.

[alibert]

Hi,

okay, understood. But I'm not going to actively change data in your npvr database, that's why the information is always loaded dynamically from a local tvdb cache and then appended to your default guide data.

All I could do would be to display only the information from tvdb (and leave out the data from your guide), so when viewing the shows from within the tv listings or tv recordings plugin, this would result in the description being replaced. Maybe I'll make an option in a future release for that (something like "If available, show description from TheTVDB only"). Would that fit your needs?

-alibert

[smajor]

Hi,

okay, understood. But I'm not going to actively change data in your npvr database, that's why the information is always loaded dynamically from a local tvdb cache and then appended to your default guide data.

All I could do would be to display only the information from tvdb (and leave out the data from your guide), so when viewing the shows from within the tv listings or tv recordings plugin, this would result in the description being replaced. Maybe I'll make an option in a future release for that (something like "If available, show description from TheTVDB only"). Would that fit your needs?

-alibert

PERFECT, that's exactly what I was asking for!