[djh_]

About that main menu. There were a few key problem areas when it was left. The first was that it wasn't scaling and masking artwork properly, so it was set up just to stretch-to-fit and only really worked with artwork that was sized to the display dimensions. Then there was what you've noticed: there's no UI in place to specify paths for the artwork. The only ways to do it quickly would be to manually enter the paths into guisettings.xml or redefine the paths in the actual skin files. Ultimately, of course, you'd want to add a GUI for all that stuff.

Hope that helps.

[Ayla]

About that main menu. There were a few key problem areas when it was left. The first was that it wasn't scaling and masking artwork properly, so it was set up just to stretch-to-fit and only really worked with artwork that was sized to the display dimensions. Then there was what you've noticed: there's no UI in place to specify paths for the artwork. The only ways to do it quickly would be to manually enter the paths into guisettings.xml or redefine the paths in the actual skin files. Ultimately, of course, you'd want to add a GUI for all that stuff.

Hope that helps.

Thanks djh_

There's no guisettings.xml file in the Alaska download folder?

What are the skin files, that I should look at to make these changes?

Just to get me started

Thanks!

[iDude]

Thanks djh_

There's no guisettings.xml file in the Alaska download folder?

guisettings.xml is in your userdata folder

[Ayla]

I made these small changes to get the main menu icons working.

Go to guisettings.xml.

Change for example the line that has "Alaska.custommovies" in it, to:

Code:

<setting type="string" name="Alaska.custommovies">/Users/htpc/Pictures/Backdrops/Movies/</setting>

Of course, use your own path to some movie pictures.

It works here (although the pictures look stretched/cropped or something)

[Ayla]

I can't use the "Videos" main menu item.

It goes to a black screen and I have to press Exit to leave it.

The button is set up like this in Home.xml:

Code:

<onclick>XBMC.ActivateWindow(MyVideoFiles)</onclick>

Is that correct?

It used to work for me in Aeon of course.

[Hitcher]

That's because there's no MyVideo.xml.

[Ayla]

That's because there's no MyVideo.xml.

Thanks Hitcher !

I will move my questions to the developer thread from now on