[edjalmo]

Hi, @bsoriano!
I noticed something in search.
If I open it and press ESC they show me a result with all my library. The expected is just to back to menu, right?

I did a little change in DialogKeyboard.xml. I don't changed anything of the functionality, they work as expected (less what I said on top) it's just with position (I centered on the screen) (what I know to do ). See if you like.
Here: https://pastebin.com/Zf7EkM4E

I wanted center the IP keyboard in screen, but don't know how to do this.

@edjalmo , thanks! I will take a look at the search issue.  As for the keyboard dialog, perhaps you included an incorrect pastebin? The only change I could see in your file would not center the dialog on the screen, but shifts all of the keyboard rows outside the dialog.  Please verify.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart  

The pastebin is correct. The problem is I expressed myself wrong, sorry! I changed the position just of the keyboard rows. The problem, in my opinian, is that the space key was too big and just the backspace key was outside. So, I just decreased the space key and centered the rows.
The problem with center the dialog is with IP keyboard, that I don't know where I can change.

[edjalmo]

I saw that you add the Embuary widgets.
I have an suggestion for random movies/tv show by genre. Don't know if this is a thing you can add or this have to be by Embuary. The suggestion is to show what genre these movies are. Like, instead of label show "Movie By Random Genre" it will show "Random X Movies," and X will be comedy, drama, etc...

[bsoriano]

Hello all,

I have just pushed to Git (both branches) important changes to the shelf navigation code, thanks to @Mr. V . These changes were necessary to simplify the code and to make it more maintainable.  They also solve in a better fashion the navigation issues posed by shelves with no content. 

So what does this mean to you?

1. All shelves will be shown, regardless of whether they are empty or not.  Empty shelves will have just one item that indicates the shelf has no content.
   
2. Each shelf needs the previous shelves to be configured before it can be configured.  This means, for example, that you cannot configure Shelf 3 if you do not have shelves 1 and 2 configured.  If you had shelves 1 through 3 configured and you later set shelf 2 to None, shelf 3 will not be shown.
   
3. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the changes, you will have to re-do all of your shelves configuration.  It is best to do a Reset of all skin settings, to ensure that you start from a clean set of settings.
   
4. I have removed the default shelves functionality.  I will not be adding this back.
   

I realize not all of you will prefer these changes, and I apologize in advance if that is the case.  As I've said before, you are more than welcome to mod the skin to your liking.  If you do, please share!

Please download, test thoroughly, and let me know if you find any issues.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

[bsoriano]

@edjalmo , please try the latest from Git.  I think I have addressed all of the issues/suggestions you had posted earlier.  Please download from Git, test, and let me know.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

[edjalmo]

@edjalmo , please try the latest from Git.  I think I have addressed all of the issues/suggestions you had posted earlier.  Please download from Git, test, and let me know.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

Thank you!
Just to I know, you didn't center the keyboard rows on purpose or you didn't want to?
The ESC for keyboard are working, but they show a little blink. It's not a big thing, but if you can solve this are good.
Just a little issue with Embuary random genre widget in my language. The problem is that in my language it show as if was Yoda talking   (it's something like "Movies X Random" in my language).
You can add a new label with ID for this widget that can be translate?
Also, did you saw this?
Thanks again!

[bsoriano]

@edjalmo , please try the latest from Git.  I think I have addressed all of the issues/suggestions you had posted earlier.  Please download from Git, test, and let me know.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

Thank you!
Just to I know, you didn't center the keyboard rows on purpose or you didn't want to?
The ESC for keyboard are working, but they show a little blink. It's not a big thing, but if you can solve this are good.
Just a little issue with Embuary random genre widget in my language. The problem is that in my language it show as if Yoda was Yoda talking   (it's something like "Movies X Random" in my language).
You can add a new label with ID for this widget that can be translate?
Also, did you saw this?
Thanks again!

@edjalmo, I only saw two changes in your modified dialogkeyboard.xml. If I applied them both, the keyboard rows show up for me outside the dialog. Thus, I only reduced the size of the space key per your file.

I know that there is a very minimal flicker if you press ESC in the custom search window, I imagine it is more noticeable in low powered devices. I will have to see if there are other solutions . Given that this is an edge case, it will remain as is for now.

The random by genre label, as you requested it, is actually three labels: Random, the genre (which is not fixed) and Movies or TV Shows. I realize grammar rules are different in different languages. I will think about a different construction of the label that is better suited for translation.

Regards,

Bart

[edjalmo]

@edjalmo , please try the latest from Git.  I think I have addressed all of the issues/suggestions you had posted earlier.  Please download from Git, test, and let me know.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

Thank you!
Just to I know, you didn't center the keyboard rows on purpose or you didn't want to?
The ESC for keyboard are working, but they show a little blink. It's not a big thing, but if you can solve this are good.
Just a little issue with Embuary random genre widget in my language. The problem is that in my language it show as if Yoda was Yoda talking   (it's something like "Movies X Random" in my language).
You can add a new label with ID for this widget that can be translate?
Also, did you saw this?
Thanks again!  

@edjalmo, I only saw two changes in your modified dialogkeyboard.xml. If I applied them both, the keyboard rows show up for me outside the dialog. Thus, I only reduced the size of the space key per your file.

I know that there is a very minimal flicker if you press ESC in the custom search window, I imagine it is more noticeable in low powered devices. I will have to see if there are other solutions . Given that this is an edge case, it will remain as is for now.

The random by genre label, as you requested it, is actually three labels: Random, the genre (which is not fixed) and Movies or TV Shows. I realize grammar rules are different in different languages. I will think about a different construction of the label that is better suited for translation.

Regards,

Bart 

For me the keyboard rows don't show outside the dialog. May I have mess up something, but this was my intention:

[bsoriano]

Thank you!
Just to I know, you didn't center the keyboard rows on purpose or you didn't want to?
The ESC for keyboard are working, but they show a little blink. It's not a big thing, but if you can solve this are good.
Just a little issue with Embuary random genre widget in my language. The problem is that in my language it show as if Yoda was Yoda talking   (it's something like "Movies X Random" in my language).
You can add a new label with ID for this widget that can be translate?
Also, did you saw this?
Thanks again!  

@edjalmo, I only saw two changes in your modified dialogkeyboard.xml. If I applied them both, the keyboard rows show up for me outside the dialog. Thus, I only reduced the size of the space key per your file.

I know that there is a very minimal flicker if you press ESC in the custom search window, I imagine it is more noticeable in low powered devices. I will have to see if there are other solutions . Given that this is an edge case, it will remain as is for now.

The random by genre label, as you requested it, is actually three labels: Random, the genre (which is not fixed) and Movies or TV Shows. I realize grammar rules are different in different languages. I will think about a different construction of the label that is better suited for translation.

Regards,

Bart  

For me the keyboard rows don't show outside the dialog. May I have mess up something, but this was my intention:
 

@edjalmo , thanks for showing me what you were trying to achieve.  I am not really a fan of how that looks, so for now I'll leave the dialog as is.

Regards,

Bart

[bsoriano]

Hello all,

I have just pushed to Git (both branches) a change in the implementation of the alphabet strip (for video only at this time), thanks to @jurialmunkey.  You still access it by pressing right in the media views.

What changed?
 

1. This version does not use any scripts
   
2. When you scroll through the letters, the media list scrolls automatically to the corresponding letter (one letter at a time)
   
3. Even though all the letters are shown, the ones for which there are no items in the media list are skipped
   

Please remember that, as before, you need to enable "Show Alphabet Strip" in Amber Settings, General, and the sort order for the media view needs to be an A-Z sort (Title, Name, etc.)

Please download, test, and let me know your feedback.  Do you prefer this functionality or the previous one I had provided? Reasons? Thank you for your feedback.

Regards,

Bart

[bsoriano]

@edjalmo , please try the latest from Git.  I think I have addressed all of the issues/suggestions you had posted earlier.  Please download from Git, test, and let me know.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

Thank you!
Just to I know, you didn't center the keyboard rows on purpose or you didn't want to?
The ESC for keyboard are working, but they show a little blink. It's not a big thing, but if you can solve this are good.
Just a little issue with Embuary random genre widget in my language. The problem is that in my language it show as if Yoda was Yoda talking   (it's something like "Movies X Random" in my language).
You can add a new label with ID for this widget that can be translate?
Also, did you saw this?
Thanks again!  

@edjalmo, I only saw two changes in your modified dialogkeyboard.xml. If I applied them both, the keyboard rows show up for me outside the dialog. Thus, I only reduced the size of the space key per your file.

I know that there is a very minimal flicker if you press ESC in the custom search window, I imagine it is more noticeable in low powered devices. I will have to see if there are other solutions . Given that this is an edge case, it will remain as is for now.

The random by genre label, as you requested it, is actually three labels: Random, the genre (which is not fixed) and Movies or TV Shows. I realize grammar rules are different in different languages. I will think about a different construction of the label that is better suited for translation.

Regards,

Bart 

@edjalmo , please check the latest changes in Git.  I changed the label for the embuary helper widgets, I think this is more language-neutral.  Also, I implemented for video the alphabet strip based on jurialmunkey's code.  Please download, test, and let me know your feedback.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

[edjalmo]

@edjalmo , please check the latest changes in Git.  I changed the label for the embuary helper widgets, I think this is more language-neutral.  Also, I implemented for video the alphabet strip based on jurialmunkey's code.  Please download, test, and let me know your feedback.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

I saw, but you forget to add this ID for translation. If I could sugest a new label this will be "Movies suggestions from [genre]" (if I wrote the english sentece right), I think this will be more language neutral too. But in all case when you add this ID for translation I can made it this way for me because the genre are the end word in bouth cases.

The alphabet strip are perfect, really good job! I could write the 3 points why they are the best but you already write them

Thanks!

[darda23]

Hi there!
I've been using Amber for years now, haven't found a sleeker look for my setup yet.

That being said, last update broke my custom layout. I managed to retrace my steps somehow and restore it (don't you just hate it when something auto updates and you're left scratching your head...) but it seems that randomization has been thrown out the window.

I have different fanart folders for different genres or language.
Now when I choose multi image I always get the same image (which only then changes)

I definitely don't want to have the exact same fanart for each category each and every time I start kodi, nor do I want fanart for comedy shows combined with action fanart.

What should I do? The basic functionality we used to rely on broke for me.

Thank you.

[edjalmo]

Hi there!
I've been using Amber for years now, haven't found a sleeker look for my setup yet.

That being said, last update broke my custom layout. I managed to retrace my steps somehow and restore it (don't you just hate it when something auto updates and you're left scratching your head...) but it seems that randomization has been thrown out the window.

I have different fanart folders for different genres or language.
Now when I choose multi image I always get the same image (which only then changes)

I definitely don't want to have the exact same fanart for each category each and every time I start kodi, nor do I want fanart for comedy shows combined with action fanart.

What should I do? The basic functionality we used to rely on broke for me.

Thank you.

I don't know if I got your problem correctly, but if I understand you can do that you want this way
Go to Settings > Skin Settings > Home Layout > Custom Home Menu and Shelves > select the category you want to put this wallpapers > Select background > Multi-Image > then your folder.
The rotation delay of wallpapers is in Skin Settings > Backgrounds > Home Window Background Rotation Delay
For keep this wallpapers while navegate in library don't enable "Show Fanart Background in Sub Windows" in Background options.

Is this you want?

I know that updates breaking setups is not nice, but the new maintainer do this to better the skin, so give an discount, and he also implemented a backup function, so if this happens again now you can restore you setup

EDIT: Sorry, but I think the rotation delay is just for home window. I think the rotation delay in categories is fixed.

[bsoriano]

@edjalmo , please check the latest changes in Git.  I changed the label for the embuary helper widgets, I think this is more language-neutral.  Also, I implemented for video the alphabet strip based on jurialmunkey's code.  Please download, test, and let me know your feedback.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

I saw, but you forget to add this ID for translation. If I could sugest a new label this will be "Movies suggestions from [genre]" (if I wrote the english sentece right), I think this will be more language neutral too. But in all case when you add this ID for translation I can made it this way for me because the genre are the end word in bouth cases.

The alphabet strip are perfect, really good job! I could write the 3 points why they are the best but you already write them

Thanks! 

@edjalmo, thank you! The strings are indeed localized (translatable).  It is string id 31497 for movies and 31517 for tv shows.  I will leave the strings as they are, since the same strings are the options you see when configuring the shelves.

Thank you for your kind words on the alphabet strip

Regards,

Bart

[bsoriano]

Hi there!
I've been using Amber for years now, haven't found a sleeker look for my setup yet.

That being said, last update broke my custom layout. I managed to retrace my steps somehow and restore it (don't you just hate it when something auto updates and you're left scratching your head...) but it seems that randomization has been thrown out the window.

I have different fanart folders for different genres or language.
Now when I choose multi image I always get the same image (which only then changes)

I definitely don't want to have the exact same fanart for each category each and every time I start kodi, nor do I want fanart for comedy shows combined with action fanart.

What should I do? The basic functionality we used to rely on broke for me.

Thank you.

@darda23 , I am sorry you are having problems with the latest version.  I am not clear on what the issue is.  When you mention "each category", are you talking about different menu items? If so, you are talking about the background for each menu item?

Please provide me the steps you are taking to customize what you want, and what is happening vs. what you expect to happen.  That way I will better know what I would potentially need to change/fix.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart