[jjd-uk]

Images are loaded based on predefined dimensions and co-ordinates, so no you can't place only behind text or whatever.

I've previously misused the term overlay as regards the way the code works for Estuary as the blue image is actually an underlay in this case. In the absense of anything the canvas is black hence there always needs to be some background image available, for Estuary the order things are loaded onto this black canvas:

1. The blue background is applied on canvas.
   
   
2. The any fanart is applied on top of background.
   
   
3. Lastly the text is applied at the very top.
   

This can easily be proved by setting

<texture background="true" colordiffuse="FFFFFFFF">$VAR[MediaFanartVar]</texture>

with the beginning FF meaning it is completely opaque with no transparancy, so none of the blue background will seep through. If you want to see the fanart exactly as it is then as you've found that will compromise the ability to read the text, the only other way to address that is to either change the colour of the font, change the style e.g. bold, or increase the size.

[Bungee_G]

Okay thanks I tought it was possible to add a background (only on the poster view type) only behind the text by changing the lines on a xml file...

Thanks for all of your help !

[Bungee_G]

@jjd-uk I have a latest question : is it possible to totally remove the blue overlay on the poster on the fanart viewtype : I think I have to edit something in the View_502_FanArt.xml file

[jjd-uk]

Nope it's the same Include as before but a few lines further down.

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master....xml#L1109

[Bungee_G]

Thanks !

[Bungee_G]

@jjd-uk
Also do you know how to change the color of the big black line in the poster viewtype ?

[Bungee_G]

@jjd-uk Have I to edit the includes.xml file ?

[Bungee_G]

Please ? @jjd-uk

[Bungee_G]

Also, can I update Kodi to 19.0 even with all of the edits that I made ?
@jjd-uk

[jjd-uk]

If you can't be bothered figuring things out for yourself then learn to have some bloody patience.

@jjd-uk
Also do you know how to change the color of the big black line in the poster viewtype ?

I assume you mean the background bar that the posters sit over, that comes from https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...er.xml#L24

For best control of colour use a white texture so the existing

xml:
<texture colordiffuse="E6FFFFFF">dialogs/dialog-bg-nobo.png</texture>

would become

xml:
<texture colordiffuse="E6FFFFFF">colors/white.png</texture>

where FFFFFF keeps it white or 000000 would make it black or use any other 6 character colour hex code to give whatever colour you want.

[Bungee_G]

If you can't be bothered figuring things out for yourself then learn to have some bloody patience.

@jjd-uk
Also do you know how to change the color of the big black line in the poster viewtype ?

I assume you mean the background bar that the posters sit over, that comes from https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...er.xml#L24

For best control of colour use a white texture so the existing

xml:
<texture colordiffuse="E6FFFFFF">dialogs/dialog-bg-nobo.png</texture>

would become

xml:
<texture colordiffuse="E6FFFFFF">colors/white.png</texture>

where FFFFFF keeps it white or 000000 would make it black or use any other 6 character colour hex code to give whatever colour you want.

Thanks ! Also, could I know if I can update to 19.0 matrix without any problems ? (on my pc because the update is not available on my Android tv)

[jjd-uk]

Also, can I update Kodi to 19.0 even with all of the edits that I made ?
@jjd-uk

If you followed this https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid3011073

then you can safely upgrade as your changes won't be overwritten.

However the skin taken from v18 will have an incompatible version number, you need to edit xbmc.gui in the addon.xml for Leia that would have been

xml:
<import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.14.0"/>

for v19 that needs to be

xml:
<import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.15.0"/>

as shown here https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...don.xml#L4

While it will work, you'll miss out on any enhancements or fixes in the latest version of Estuary, therefore your changes will need to be applied on top of the version in v19.

The way I'd advise doing this is create another version following https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid3011073 again this time with a new name e.g. skin.estuary.mod.matrix then If you have kept track of all the changes you've done then simply go in and edit the same files in v19.

If you haven't kept track of changes then you can use a program to compare differences between different versions, when doing this I use Diffmerge https://sourcegear.com/diffmerge/downloads.php as it has a folder compare feature that checks all the differences in all files within 2 different folders, so do a compare on the xml folder for skin.estuary version that comes with v19 and your newly created version of your modified skin. If will tell you the files which have difference which you can open in the programe and show you these differences within each file, and then merge a difference from one file into the other. The reason for to have this newly created version containing your mods is to keep your current one untouched (as backup so you lose nothing) so if anything goes wrong you can simply discard it and start over.

[Bungee_G]

Also, can I update Kodi to 19.0 even with all of the edits that I made ?
@jjd-uk

If you followed this https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid3011073

then you can safely upgrade as your changes won't be overwritten.

However the skin taken from v18 will have an incompatible version number, you need to edit xbmc.gui in the addon.xml for Leia that would have been

xml:
<import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.14.0"/>

for v19 that needs to be

xml:
<import addon="xbmc.gui" version="5.15.0"/>

as shown here https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...don.xml#L4

While it will work, you'll miss out on any enhancements or fixes in the latest version of Estuary, therefore your changes will need to be applied on top of the version in v19.

The way I'd advise doing this is create another version following https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid3011073 again this time with a new name e.g. skin.estuary.mod.matrix then If you have kept track of all the changes you've done then simply go in and edit the same files in v19.

If you haven't kept track of changes then you can use a program to compare differences between different versions, when doing this I use Diffmerge https://sourcegear.com/diffmerge/downloads.php as it has a folder compare feature that checks all the differences in all files within 2 different folders, so do a compare on the xml folder for skin.estuary version that comes with v19 and your newly created version of your modified skin. If will tell you the files which have difference which you can open in the programe and show you these differences within each file, and then merge a difference from one file into the other. The reason for to have this newly created version containing your mods is to keep your current one untouched (as backup so you lose nothing) so if anything goes wrong you can simply discard it and start over.

Okay thanks ! I think I will update Kodi when the 19.0 version will be available on my Android tv on the google okay store so I don’t have to do all of that 2 times at different times... Do you know when it will be available ?

[Klojum]

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