2018-11-11, 02:42
@celticslment The problem is that whatever you're using seems to have a very long naming scheme, which causes the scroll to go faster. As far as I know there is no setting to control the speed of the scroll, only to wrap the text or cut it off.
@raptorz That hasn't happened for me in a very long time. This sort of thing does happen if something like a third-party add-on messes with the default viewing schemes. The view should be fixed for the initial menu, and change is possible only inside the add-on browser itself. Something most likely locked the add-ons section view, either for all categories or for something specific like the programs section to an incompatible view-type, which, in turn, then caused a blank screen. The only way to fix this is to find out what locked the view and undo that. To prevent this from happening in the future, only use the locking mechanism that the skin provides.
@MM10 Yes, after a bit of digging, I can now confirm the issue. The solution is not that simple, however. The reason why the images are blurry is that the mechanic currently utilises the Icon/Thumbnail infobool. As far as I've gathered, that's necessary because Kodi doesn't seem to provide any other way to "dynamically" call full-resolution images to a focused image list item, short of opening the file. Fanart and all the other art infobools are specific properties that are systematically assigned to go around this problem, but generic images inside custom folder structures are a whole other story. I've taken a peek at some other skins, and none of them seem to provide a true workaround.
The best I can do to mitigate this is to reference the same image path as the image collection, which will display the images as backgrounds in full resolution. The downside to this is that you will no longer be able to scroll through the images in the widget itself, and consequently won't be able to change them manually. The thumbnails in the right widget panel will not match the backgrounds either. Instead, you'll get a simple slideshow. With that in mind, selecting a picture widget in that manner is not that different from selecting a folder to display as a menu background. I'm not at all sure what the best approach is, so I'll leave it up to you. If you consider this an improvement, I'll include it in the next update.
@raptorz That hasn't happened for me in a very long time. This sort of thing does happen if something like a third-party add-on messes with the default viewing schemes. The view should be fixed for the initial menu, and change is possible only inside the add-on browser itself. Something most likely locked the add-ons section view, either for all categories or for something specific like the programs section to an incompatible view-type, which, in turn, then caused a blank screen. The only way to fix this is to find out what locked the view and undo that. To prevent this from happening in the future, only use the locking mechanism that the skin provides.
@MM10 Yes, after a bit of digging, I can now confirm the issue. The solution is not that simple, however. The reason why the images are blurry is that the mechanic currently utilises the Icon/Thumbnail infobool. As far as I've gathered, that's necessary because Kodi doesn't seem to provide any other way to "dynamically" call full-resolution images to a focused image list item, short of opening the file. Fanart and all the other art infobools are specific properties that are systematically assigned to go around this problem, but generic images inside custom folder structures are a whole other story. I've taken a peek at some other skins, and none of them seem to provide a true workaround.
The best I can do to mitigate this is to reference the same image path as the image collection, which will display the images as backgrounds in full resolution. The downside to this is that you will no longer be able to scroll through the images in the widget itself, and consequently won't be able to change them manually. The thumbnails in the right widget panel will not match the backgrounds either. Instead, you'll get a simple slideshow. With that in mind, selecting a picture widget in that manner is not that different from selecting a folder to display as a menu background. I'm not at all sure what the best approach is, so I'll leave it up to you. If you consider this an improvement, I'll include it in the next update.