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is there a way to see the progress of your skin without always booting up your xbox to test it. i guess what i am asking is if there is a perl port of some sort that will allow an xbmc dash look.
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can i install mediaportal x and skin that? are they similar. i ask before i try, sorry.
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answered my own question. just installed mediaportal and see that they are the same format. with some minor differences.
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i want to know how to get the program that allows you to create textures.xpr, xbmctex.exe. can someone give me the link or send me the program?
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it's in cvs, you have to compile it.
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everybody keeps pointing to the skinning.txt file in the xbmc home directory. this file is incomplete. it barely mentions anything about the button control. i'd also like to know more about the other 6 controls that get no explanation whatsoever in that file.
all you people that know how to do this stuff, why is it you all just say "figure it out on your own"? why can't you help advance the knowledge of others by answering questions you know the answers to?
that's just as bad as most linux punks who say "read the man pages!" except here there are no man pages.
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supersnail: the reason there is no documentation is because noone has written any.
if you can assure me that you will write documentation in the online manual about whatever control you are enquiring about, i'm more than happy to answer your questions.
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yes, i have the knowledge. however, i am a developer - what i think is good documentation is not what people like yourself (ie users who are coming to xbmc cold) find is good documentation. good documentation for beginners is written by beginners.
if you aren't prepared to share with others (via documenting what you learn), why should someone else do it for you?
many others have managed just fine with what we currently have - they've done it by finding stuff out themselves, and asking specific questions when they stumble across something they don't know. unfortunately, not enough of them wrote down what they'd learnt in a place such as the online manual.
i've offered to help you (and any skinner) out, but i'm not going to answer the same questions over and over - thus my simple request.
cheers
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what is it you need to know about the listcontrol?
further to bobrooney_78's links, you can always pop in to #xbmc on efnet and i (or anyone else that knows) will be quite willing to answer any queries you may have.
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This is a well deserved bump. Anyone know where to find the source code?
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NVM found for the 2.0.1 source code.
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I'm confused on the resolutions here, although it should be a pretty basic thing :p
I created a simple 720x480 image to get started playing around with this. I took the PM3 skin and essentially ripped everything out of it except the settings button, and then put my image in using an image control. the image control is set for 0,0,720,480. However when my image is displayed it does not fill the entire screen.
I am testing using the XBMC_PC, in NTSC 4:3 mode, and I have set it to pixelsize, and aspect ratio.
What am I missing?