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First off, I love this skin, great work! Best one out there, imo, even better than AeonMQ, which I've used for years. I had a question, though. I've noticed that there aren't too many view options available, as in the size of the big poster/thumbnail and the smaller ones. That is, for things like addons such as Advanced Emulator Launcher, there's only the one square size, which doesn't look too good for non-square game covers, which is a great deal of them, and even less so for horizontal covers. I was wondering if anyone knew which xml file or files control these options since I thought I might tweak the skin in a bit in a mod so posters/thumbs in other sections can look as good as the ones in the movie/tv sections. Thanks for any help!
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Thanks for the tip. I figured out where the view layouts were, in includes_view.xml, and managed to get rid of the text underneath the square thumbnails. But I want to add the existing poster view to the possible views for the addon section. I think if I can do that, I can figure out the rest from there, but I haven't been able to find out how to do it. Nothing I change seems to affect the available view types that can be cycles through, it's stuck at square and list. Any further help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Thanks, jurial, that worked! I can switch to poster view in AEL now, but the big thumbnail is still a square. I assume that the code for it is in includes_views, I just don't know which part of it. I want it to look just like poster view does in the movie section, basically, and then have a view for horizontal covers for games like SNES and N64 games, with a larger horizontal thumbnail instead of the big square for that.
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2017-05-27, 16:31
(This post was last modified: 2017-06-02, 03:42 by DravinSharde.)
Thanks again, that did it! I guess I understand about the big horizontal thumbnail, users can just rotate those covers I guess or use the more recent vertical versions that have been made. Though I wonder if it's possible to add the landscape view like you said but have the art for the big poster rotated so it doesn't go horizontally across the space but fills it vertically like in the poster view while sill having the smaller thumbnails be horizontal the way the landscape view already is.
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Also, how would I increase the size of the square thumbnails in the square view (the smaller ones) to be the same height (but still square, so the width and spacing would be adjusted as well) so that the height would match that of the other small thumbnails in the poster and landscape views? Sorry for all the questions, still learning about how the code works and all. I've done some tweaking to other skins in the past, mainly AeonMQ (mostly just font changes) but nothing really complex. I really appreciate all the help!
After thinking about it some more, I think it might be fine for the landscape poster if it could be done by simply reducing the height down to the appropriate level and keeping the width the same as the normal poster and square. It would still be bigger than the small landscape thumbnails without having to alter the rest of the skin. I'm just not sure how to do it. And would it be possible in the pictures section for the big square thumbnails to have the thumbnail zoomed and cropped like in the smaller ones so there's no gray space? Thanks again for your help!
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One other thing. Is it possible to change where it says "Programs • Advanced Emulator Launcher" to "(year) • (publisher)" as drawn from the scraper or .nfo file? And in pictures, the thumbnails for different picture sources don't show on the big thumbnail, only on the small ones.