2018-01-10, 01:45
(2018-01-08, 14:17)Mike_Doc Wrote: Hi,
Ok new year now so new plans.
@mikeSiLVO. I like your suggestion of starting with a view each. I will look at starting this week and will probably take KodiFlix. There is a lot of code in there that needs to be sorted out in both Movies and TV and somethings that should actually go like DVDshelf display as it has problems on the far right of the screen. So I'll start there and let you know via GITHUB with what plans I come up with for it and creating a more common code solution with VARS etc to reduce duplicated code. I'll also probably look into the fake discs and all that as I know there is a lot of duplication for that, the solution needs to be re-engineered and even possibly decided if it should still exist, but I know it is liked so it'll stay but just hopefully be improved, but that is across multiple views so for the time being I'll just analyze it and re-design the solution before re-coding.
Also, there is probably version requirements outstanding due to changes in Leia, so we'll have to look into doing that which I think you've started on with your recent PR?
@Mr. V, your time has not been wasted and as discussed hopefully M will continue on forward to what it becomes. You have always been a part of the team since your amazing widget work that you graciously did when the Krypton update happened where we all worked together as a great team and hopefully will continue too on whatever the project is.
@Dan, cheers mate and your help is always valued as in the past.
@Slipass,haven't done much on RCB.xml for a while I did create 3 new specific games views for Madnox in on of the last updates but they are outside of using RCB as that uses it's own xml like you have stated. I'll put it on the list but will have to try and get my 'games' set up again for adequate testing in the future.
So, Mikesilvo and I will be the main team on "Aeon Madnox" from now on, probably with help now and then from good friends like Aries / Shadowtek for gfx, meowmoo for music and bsoriano for testing and perhaps coding if you still want to learn Bart? We are only starting up now but as MikeSilvo said bugs / improvements / etc are always welcome and we'll discuss whatever and see where it goes.
So, Happy new year to everyone and hopefully Aeon Madnox can not only continue but evolve as well both in itself and as Madnox, but what is going on there will take a lot of time.
Mike.
@Mike_Doc: Send me a PM if/when you need me as my appearances on these forums can be somewhat sporadic.
Also, while I'm here, If I may be so bold as to offer a suggestion; Now GitHub is fine for testing purposes, and submitting changes, but for end-users a "repo" is better. It's easier to install via Kodi, requires no special "tricks" to get working, and doesn't come with added clutter files that aren't really relevant to the operation of the skin within Kodi itself. With this being the case, it would be a better for the novice users out there that want something up-to-date, but at the same time, stable to have recent builds of Madnox in a repo of some description. Ideally, the Kodi official Repo would be the best location, but I don't think that will be an option for Madnox if I understand the rules properly. MikeSilvo, who currently already has the project hosted on his GitHub account, also has a repo... I think you know where I'm going with this.
This came to mind due to an issue I've experienced recently, in that by directly syncing the GitHub repo for Madnox into my Kodi add-ons folder, with the latest iteration of GitHub Desktop, while the skin content itself doesn't pose any issues, the Backup add-on baulks once it attempts to back up the .git folder and it's subfolders due to the extreme path-length (or so it seems), preventing me being able to use the add-on with the skin installed in this manner. And I have Kodi running portable in the root of the drive it's installed to. So my thinking is that since MikeSilvo already takes care of the GitHub hosting for Madnox, AND has his own repo offering the 'Aeon Nox - Silvo' build, perhaps he could be persuaded to host Madnox alongside? An idea for those who want to keep 'up-to-date' but aren't beta-testers, nor wish to be at the bleeding adge (prefering stability).
Just an idea.
Dan / Gib.