[jmh2002]

@Mudislander: I know you are busy with other things right now, but I have a request for the future if possible, from this thread:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=166018

Hello Community
I use a touch screen PC in my kitchen.
With the default skin Confluence I have had the problem, that the volume control is not easy possible via the touch panel.
For this reason, I have modded the default Confluence skin and inserted additional buttons for volume control.



The Skin is available for download HERE:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-7654...d.zip.html

For the exact same reason as mentioned above (ie: hard volume buttons on touchscreen tablets not always easily accessible), would it be possible to add these buttons to CCM (optional obviously, for when they are not needed) ?

THANK YOU

EDIT: hmmm, maybe this wont work with a lowered home menu, and multiple submenu items... (not enough space)

Thoughts for consideration:
- Add the above mentioned buttons to the right hand side of the home screen instead ?
(only when at home screen, so as not to interfere with home/back)
- Add volume buttons to the transport controls on the home screen ?
(the ones that show above right on the home menu)
- Add volume buttons to the fullscreen transport controls ?
(the deafult 'Audio' menu is not that intuitive for just a simple volume change)
(and I notice that the 'Audio' button is not even visible in fullscreen when playing just audio - eg: radio stream)

Confused but I guess its all food for thought...

[Mudislander]

@Mudislander
Any chance for something like this in your mod ?

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1433107

Where's that from, I've not seen it. Will attempt, but EPG is a bit finicky & my XBMC has no TV signal ATM, so no promises

[Jönke]

Thanks !

Its from Aeon nox mod http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=151517

[o007]

Hi,

That's it! I've go the skin I was looking for Many thanks to you Mudislander for your great job.
I have been using this skin for a couple of days, and I like it -- but I've some requests:
-- Showing "End Time" in OSD, "m" button // and increase its size;
-- Add a small icon, at the top of the screen, to watch trailers, just like transparency; or something like in aeon mq4: two clicks up to play a trailer.

I also have one question: when we add a new TV Show to the library, will artwork downloader get all artwork automatically, or do we need to launch the program manually.

Again, thank you and keep up the good work.

[Mudislander]

Update 1.2.0 uploaded - Works on my system

This version my have a few issues, added in various buttons and shuffled around the info dialogs.

[jmh2002]

Update 1.2.0 uploaded - Works on my system

This version my have a few issues, added in various buttons and shuffled around the info dialogs.

Wow, thanks again!

From the ChangeLog:

Added On Screen Volume Buttons

Your implementation of this request seems great so far, thank you!

Rearranged all Dialog Info Screens resulting in a version bump

I guess this is the various info and error messages which are produced from time to time - which are now displayed in the top left corner instead of the bottom right? Was this a required change due to the new volume buttons?

So far from limited testing (like, 2 minutes), I note that the DialogInfoScreens (or at least some of them) are transparent, so the 'XBMC Media Center' logo which is also in the top left corner still shows underneath the DialogInfo making it somewhat unreadable.

If it was not transparent (and maybe just a little bit higher, although that is a guess) maybe it would then just cover the XBMC logo nicely.

Hope the feedback is helpful. THANKS AGAIN!

[jmh2002]

A couple of questions for the future:

- I seem to have the Year in the fullscreen OSD display twice for Movies (and it seems to come from different sources, because sometimes it diffferent). This started happening a while ago, I think after you maybe did some changes in that area (but I am not 100% sure).

- When in a view (eg: Movie List, but most others too) it is no longer possible to Arrow Right several times to reach the Back/Home buttons in the bottom right corner. In these cases Arrow Right opens again the left Fly Out View Menu (as well as Arrow Left). Its weird, but I now understand that this is something that arrived with Frodo/standard Confluence (rather than being a CCM bug).

It didnt happen in Eden, which was really nice because it meant fast access to the Home button on a simple (eg: aTV style) remote.

I dont know if this is actually a bug in Confluence or a designed feature (not sure how it is helpful), but it is possible to UNDO this and put it back to how it used to work?

THANKS

[jmh2002]

From the ChangeLog:

Rearranged all Dialog Info Screens resulting in a version bump

EDIT: Re-enabled weather in the skin settings and the now the DialogInfoScreens seem to work more as expected (ie: weather hides, Dialog shows for several seconds, then weather shows again)

[jmh2002]

- When in a view (eg: Movie List, but most others too) it is no longer possible to Arrow Right several times to reach the Back/Home buttons in the bottom right corner. In these cases Arrow Right opens again the left Fly Out View Menu (as well as Arrow Left).........

EDIT: Looks like I spoke too soon - the latest version of the skin seems to have already fixed this issue too! FANTASTIC!

[Mudislander]

Thanks for the feedback, just what I'm looking for.

The XBMC logo top left will be looked at, oversight that it stays up under the info dialog. BTW if anyone is having problems with the weather, you now have to enable it in the system weather settings.

Keep a watch on the arrow keys, the design is that from a media view to go down/right through the scroll bar to the back/exit buttons. it gets a little more difficult from there, but I prefer then going on to the left hand menu then back to the media view.

Re the movie year, yep it's possible for some movies to show the year after the name if it has the year in the name I'll look into it but it may be a case of renaming those movies as I want the year up for some of the views & also previously requested to show year.

[Mudislander]

Hi,

That's it! I've go the skin I was looking for Many thanks to you Mudislander for your great job.
I have been using this skin for a couple of days, and I like it -- but I've some requests:
-- Showing "End Time" in OSD, "m" button // and increase its size;
-- Add a small icon, at the top of the screen, to watch trailers, just like transparency; or something like in aeon mq4: two clicks up to play a trailer.

I also have one question: when we add a new TV Show to the library, will artwork downloader get all artwork automatically, or do we need to launch the program manually.

Again, thank you and keep up the good work.

Sorry but this request for a "Trailer" button came a few days too late, Original idea had the trailer button on floor with back/home buttons, but space was short & also only works for "One Line" type views eg in the middle of a full wall to get to a trailer button you have to first go over some other media items & the trailer then changes. Plus which I thought "Who needs to watch trailers of movies on their system ?" - obviously was wrong

Just out of interest why do you use the small popup OSD on the "M" button.

Re Artwork downloader - Yes you have to manually start the script. Standing on moral ground here & don't want to waste bandwith that someone has paid good money for.

[o007]

Hi Mudislander.

When I play a video, just before it starts, I see the background image for about 1sec... I'm not talking about the fanart, but the default background of "videos". I have tested other skins, like hybrid, and things seems to be more fluid. This is not a big problem, but I hope you can solve it

Thanks

[jmh2002]

The XBMC logo top left will be looked at, oversight that it stays up under the info dialog. BTW if anyone is having problems with the weather, you now have to enable it in the system weather settings.

Weather also needs to be re-enabled in the skin settings after the update. Default seems to be off now.

Keep a watch on the arrow keys, the design is that from a media view to go down/right through the scroll bar to the back/exit buttons. it gets a little more difficult from there, but I prefer then going on to the left hand menu then back to the media view.

Yes, this now works as expected, thank you (ie: how it used to work in Eden). One exception seems to be in views where there is no scroll bar (because of only a few items listed) - in this case it won't jump across to back/home buttons.

Re the movie year, yep it's possible for some movies to show the year after the name if it has the year in the name I'll look into it but it may be a case of renaming those movies as I want the year up for some of the views & also previously requested to show year.

In my case it is happening with .strm files. In the File view (or Library view) for this library the Year does not form part of the file name. I'll double check the actual .strm file name on the hard drive later in the day.

Added On Screen Volume Buttons

Regarding the new Volume Buttons, I may have found one bug:
On my aTV I Disabled the Volume Buttons in the skin settings because the aTV is connected to a 5.1 receiver which handles volume.

In this case, the buttons are just 'missing' on the fullscreen OSD (for Movies, I didn't actually check audio only yet), ie: there is a physical gap on the OSD. This gap prevents being able to arrow right from the transport buttons to the subtitle and other buttons - its not possible to 'jump' across the gap. Arrow Left from the transport buttons works to wrap around in the opposite direction thereby avoiding the physical gap. I hope this explanation makes sense

THANKS for all the hard work!

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One more item that I noticed last night. Adding items to Favourites no longer seems to produce a DialogInfoScreen - maybe there are other Dialogs that are no longer showing up as well ?

[Mudislander]

Re buttons on Video OSD - will fix but as a temp thing you can get around by going left & wrapping around

[kc6nsf]

I've decided to do a Confluence mod again. Basically Jezz's default Confluence with the ability to change the Main Menu and backgrounds, plus a couple of other things.

Mod can be installed from the Hybrid Repo

ATM Modded Areas include

• User Customizable Main Menu
  
• Individual Backgrounds
  
• User Selectable Large Font Option
  
• Added Roboto-Bold-Caps font by uNiversal
  
• Skin Kiosk Mode
  
• Choice of Music Viz FanArt Types
  
• Info Stats Bar on Home Screen
  
• Added Home Menu Support for Music Videos
  
• Added Wider Home Menu Labels
  
• Changed Skin Default Background
  

Home Screen v1.0.3

Even though I am not mamilliar with this skin I like it and hope to learn all of its functions.