(2013-04-10, 19:01)wyrm Wrote: Just a quick heads up for people who download the skin thru the Passion repo. I have just committed a Large update to my googlecode page that should show up in the next round of updates on Passion. I have made a number of code optimisations that I hope will make things a bit quicker on low speced machines. Also for those people that wanted the scrolling text back, the required code changes are now there to make use of the returning "Autoscroll" setting in the skins "General" settings menu. Turn on this setting and hopefully all of the scrolling text that was there before will return (and also a large part of the recent skin speedups will unfortunately disappear, sorry thems the breaks).

If there is any problems, or I have missed some controls on the scrolling text update, please drop a line here and I will endeavor to fix things.

Wyrm (xTV-SAF)

(2013-04-11, 16:04)lipo Wrote:

(2013-04-10, 19:01)wyrm Wrote: Just a quick heads up for people who download the skin thru the Passion repo. I have just committed a Large update to my googlecode page that should show up in the next round of updates on Passion. I have made a number of code optimisations that I hope will make things a bit quicker on low speced machines. Also for those people that wanted the scrolling text back, the required code changes are now there to make use of the returning "Autoscroll" setting in the skins "General" settings menu. Turn on this setting and hopefully all of the scrolling text that was there before will return (and also a large part of the recent skin speedups will unfortunately disappear, sorry thems the breaks).

If there is any problems, or I have missed some controls on the scrolling text update, please drop a line here and I will endeavor to fix things.

Wyrm (xTV-SAF)

sweeet
btw this is not a high priority but any plan to update the studio logo ? some are changed like cinemax & fx

(2013-04-11, 17:01)wyrm Wrote:

(2013-04-11, 16:04)lipo Wrote:

(2013-04-10, 19:01)wyrm Wrote: Just a quick heads up for people who download the skin thru the Passion repo. I have just committed a Large update to my googlecode page that should show up in the next round of updates on Passion. I have made a number of code optimisations that I hope will make things a bit quicker on low speced machines. Also for those people that wanted the scrolling text back, the required code changes are now there to make use of the returning "Autoscroll" setting in the skins "General" settings menu. Turn on this setting and hopefully all of the scrolling text that was there before will return (and also a large part of the recent skin speedups will unfortunately disappear, sorry thems the breaks).

If there is any problems, or I have missed some controls on the scrolling text update, please drop a line here and I will endeavor to fix things.

Wyrm (xTV-SAF)

sweeet
btw this is not a high priority but any plan to update the studio logo ? some are changed like cinemax & fx

Hey buddy,

Glad you came back. Part of the reason I left the studio logos and other such images out of the media directory is so that it is a lot easier for users to add or update these images (also it stops the textures.xbt file getting too big). Any images in the media directory get rolled up into a textures.xbt file when the skin is submitted to the main repo. Any images outside of this directory are left alone. Go check out the /extras directory. Apart from the images sub directory with it's various image types (including studio's) there is a playlists directory that has a number of pre configured playlists that you may find useful. Feel free to update, add to etc any of the files here. Just remember that they are named the way they are to match your info tags in your library's, or at least for most of them. The ratings directory is handled by code in the skin, so adding a new rating type would require me to code the new entry as well as providing a new image. Studio's on the other hand is provided by reading the studio info tag in the library and looking in the studios directory for a matching file (with a .png on the end).

Hope that makes sense.
Wyrm (xTV-SAF)

(2013-04-12, 18:35)lipo Wrote: ok thanks will try it out
im having a dumb blonde moment here
where is the skin directory ?

i just test various view on video libay, the most problematic is the wall view
some have no text wharsover, other have overlaping text that read "43 minutes"
ill upload debug log ASAP, hopefully it doesnt caused by dirty code alogarym

(2013-04-20, 19:29)relyter Wrote: Nice work, Wyrm. Have a nice camping

When you'll have some time to look back at skin, check the following. There's small problem with few labels in translation. I'm not sure did you turn off text lines scrolling to speed up skin or it was never there in the first place? But now few strings in translation are just cut in the middle and without scrolling no chance to read them whole. Yes, most of them are quite long, i'll try to shorten them. (but generally russian translation of the english text is something 35% longer in letters/words and the same in reading time). But there're also few short lines that cut:
- translation of "use intro video" is cut after ~15 letters. Just below translation of the "use startup playlist" is longer yet visible
- "program addons" and "get addons" in Addons on Home screen, "system info" in system. But those are xbmc strings, not skin, right?

(2013-04-25, 13:11)stuCONNERS Wrote: Is there anyone that can help me skin transmission to match this skin. this skin is really good, just trying to edit some stuff to match it, any help would be great, thank you

(2013-04-25, 16:22)wyrm Wrote: relyter,

Yep had fun, unfortunately back now.

Yes I turned off scrolling due to the performance hit to the low speced machines. For the most part it can be turned back on by selecting "Autoscroll" on in the General skin settings menu. If you find that this causes too much of a performance hit you can tell XBMC to use a slightly more efficient dirty region algorithm (go check the XBMC wiki for details of advancedsetting.xml file). You want to be using "<algorithmdirtyregions>1</algorithmdirtyregions>". This setting only updates the parts of the screen that have changed unlike the default dirty region algorithm, which updates the entire screen anytime there is a change.

I will go look at the examples you have given and see what I can do. I expect the "use intro video" example is a missing tag in the control for this setting. As to the Home screen examples, yes they are system strings, but it comes down to how much room I have allowed for the strings to display. I will see if I can't fine tune the font sizing a tiny amount (not a real lot of wiggle room on that, as I think the fonts are right on the edge of what is clearly visible now).

Keep me posted on any other strings you find that don't seem to have enough room and I will try to do something about it .

Wyrm (xTV-SAF)

(2013-04-25, 21:02)relyter Wrote: I shorten few long strings in translation (trying to keep clear meaning ), so what's left is "intro video" and those xbmc string. And if it's possible, would you please give a little more room to "reset skins setting to default". And no autoscroll needed.

Thanks for the tip on dirtyregions, worth trying.

(2013-04-25, 21:15)stuCONNERS Wrote: what is the name of the file you use to do list view, my blue border is way to big?

(2013-04-26, 04:49)wyrm Wrote: Now, just how quick is the skin now? How does it compare against Quartz, Amber and SiO2 (hopefully it should be quicker than these skins as my textures are smaller. 720p as compared to 1080p)? How is the load on your Raspberry Pi?

(2013-04-26, 13:46)pecinko Wrote:

(2013-04-26, 04:49)wyrm Wrote: Now, just how quick is the skin now? How does it compare against Quartz, Amber and SiO2 (hopefully it should be quicker than these skins as my textures are smaller. 720p as compared to 1080p)? How is the load on your Raspberry Pi?

No way!

I'll switch to textual mode if my skins prove to be slower!

(2013-04-26, 16:35)wyrm Wrote: Funny enough I was working on some more optimisations for version 1.4.0. Pretty sure this will smoke your skin now sport! Go check out the new home screen