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Focus (an XBMC Media Center skin) discussion thread
Ayla Wrote:What should be missing?

I have just tried the skin and everything seems fine.

Martin

I updated a couple of little things because of what dimestore said, and something went wrong with the updating it seems. So for a while the download package was corrupted.
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Jeroen Wrote:I updated a couple of little things because of what dimestore said, and something went wrong with the updating it seems. So for a while the download package was corrupted.

OK, I'll download again just to be safe.

I have found a bug maybe:

I use File mode.

When I try to manually select a movie poster, the poster changes in the info window but it doesn't change in the List View... The big movie poster doesn't reflect the change?
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Jeroen Wrote:Dimestore, I wasn't able to reproduce number 2. Please note that thumbnail and icon view are the same, I just have some more renaming to do. Does this happen in any particular situation? (Like only when listing albums or artists for example)

Ah, since icon and thumbnail are the same, anything works fine, sry.

Jeroen Wrote:I couldn't reproduce number 1 either, but I changed one little thing hoping that will solve it for you.
Could you redownload to see if that does the trick? I also threw in a mute icon, placement is probably temporary.
Cheers,
Jeroen

Thanks, this is fixed in the new version.
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Ayla Wrote:I use File mode.

When I try to manually select a movie poster, the poster changes in the info window but it doesn't change in the List View... The big movie poster doesn't reflect the change?

I don't know to be honest. I have noticed that sometimes happening too. Usually it will have changed for me when reloading the filelist. Not much the skin can do about though, xbmc itself takes care of the image loading. The skin just tells it where to put it.
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BUG...
music scan info show during video playback.
I'm not an expert but I play one at work.
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Jeroen,

I use File mode.

When I click Video on the main menu, I see:

Adult
Clips
Movies
TV Shows

How do I change the name of Adult and Clips?

I want Documentaries and Videos instead Smile

Thanks,
Martin
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Ayla Wrote:Jeroen,

I use File mode.

When I click Video on the main menu, I see:

Adult
Clips
Movies
TV Shows

How do I change the name of Adult and Clips?

I want Documentaries and Videos instead Smile

Thanks,
Martin

Sorry for the late answer. By default Focus does not have the menu entries you mention so no adult and clips.
But if you want to change anything in this menu you should look into the HomeVideoMenu.xml file.
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As always sharp work, really love the new version. Will try to bug bash it when I get some more time on my hands.

P.S Love the colour tweaks and the new icons. It might be good if possible to keep the tango available down the line, although if it throws you of the rocking the skip that >D

Cheers, Tobias
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"Well Im gonna download the code and look at it a bit but I'm certainly not a really good C/C++ programer but I'd help as much as I can, I mostly write in C#."
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It looks great(er) now even thought it took some time to get used to the inbuilt volume control was horizontal instead of vertical.

So, the bug report (or?), well you fixed most issues with the menu control when playing songs, but, when I choose a visualization (Menu -> go to the eye to the left) it disappears. The eye disappear and never re-appears, I mean when I press it I can go left and right to choose the viz I want and then I wait a few seconds and it gets chosen, its after that it poof gone.

Something else I thought about was, when scrolling through the viz's the text is quite big and doesnt really fit in that small place.
Lovin' it thought Wink
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I like the home interface, it's not the typical UI, but it's pretty intuitive nonetheless. Very nice. I didn't like the font used on the home screen.. it looks kinda out of place... I think if the font were changed it'd give the skin a better look overall.

Anyway those were my first impressions, good stuff Smile
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I absolutely love this skin and am using it as default all the time now. The one area I hope Jeroen improves over time is the highlight on the home navigation. I'm not a big fna of the black bar, and think it could do with being improved upon.

However, the guy is doing all of this on his own in his own time and should be commended. I hope it gets changed at some stage, but am not going to push for it.

Excellent skin Jeroen.
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@Joeren
Just a FYI:
If you want to have more controll over PowerManagement done on other plattforms than XBox, these have been added to beta1

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=37726
http://xbmc.org/topfs2/2008/09/23/skinne...hibernate/

Note that these are perfectly backwards compatible with XBox branch.
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So, not a lot of news atm I'm afraid. I have taken the pace of things a little bit. Sometimes I get this strange urge to actually use my skin/xbmc instead of working on it all the time Tongue

As it stands now, I don't expect to release a new version soon. There's several reasons for this, one being I will be leaving the XBOX platform behind me soon as I have ordered an htpc. This means my personal interest will be shifting to an HD version of Focus. Some work has been done on this already. The HD version will be driven more by my own personal taste and preferences. Maybe I will be backporting the changes to the SD version at some point but I am not sure about this.

megatomte Wrote:So, the bug report (or?), well you fixed most issues with the menu control when playing songs, but, when I choose a visualization (Menu -> go to the eye to the left) it disappears. The eye disappear and never re-appears, I mean when I press it I can go left and right to choose the viz I want and then I wait a few seconds and it gets chosen, its after that it poof gone.

Something else I thought about was, when scrolling through the viz's the text is quite big and doesnt really fit in that small place.
Lovin' it thought Wink
Yes, the vis controls are incomplete. So are the dialog windows like vis select as at the time of working on them XBMC would crash constantly when having the vis active making it undoable working on them.

migueld Wrote:I didn't like the font used on the home screen.. it looks kinda out of place... I think if the font were changed it'd give the skin a better look overall.
Anyway those were my first impressions, good stuff Smile
Thanks. I'm quite happy with the font though. And it was quite a task finding an open source font that I liked so I don't plan on changing it.

MikeBeecham Wrote:I'm not a big fna of the black bar, and think it could do with being improved upon.
I'm not really pleased with it either Mike. Something else will come up eventually.

Topfs2 Wrote:@Joeren
Just a FYI:
If you want to have more controll over PowerManagement done on other plattforms than XBox, these have been added to beta1

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=37726
http://xbmc.org/topfs2/2008/09/23/skinne...hibernate/

Note that these are perfectly backwards compatible with XBox branch.
Thanks, those are nice additions Smile
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Really looking forward to the HD version Jeroen!

Glad to see you join the HTPC camp (Plex maybe) Wink

I use this skin everyday and it has replaced AEON for me.

PS. Choosing Trailers from the Video menu always show 0 items for me, even though, if I start the Apple MT script, it works fine and updates.

I would rather browse them, like movie entries. Any ideas?

PPS. When clicking the power off button on the right it always defaults to "About". Can I make it default to "Shutdown" instead?

/Martin
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Ayla Wrote:Really looking forward to the HD version Jeroen!

Glad to see you join the HTPC camp (Plex maybe) Wink

I use this skin everyday and it has replaced AEON for me.

PS. Choosing Trailers from the Video menu always show 0 items for me, even though, if I start the Apple MT script, it works fine and updates.

I would rather browse them, like movie entries. Any ideas?

PPS. When clicking the power off button on the right it always defaults to "About". Can I make it default to "Shutdown" instead?

/Martin

You are using the "normal" AMT plugin I assume (so not the Apple Movie Trailers II plugin)? I'm not sure what can be causing it to be honest, it works fine for me Huh
As for your second question, If you redownload Focus, the default should be "shutdown", I changed this some time ago.
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