2021-01-30, 16:25
Hello all,
I have uploaded versions 3.2.126 (Leia) and 3.4.13 (Matrix) to the Amber repos (these versions were already on GitHub). The main changes are:
1. Icon only vertical menu/submenu. Amber now supports an icon only vertical menu/submenu. The skin includes icons for the default menu and submenu items, but you can choose your own icons for the menu and submenu items. The new setting for icon only menu is here:
And the menu/submenu look like this:
As you can see from the above 2 screenshots, you can have the menu item/submenu item label(s) show up. This is controlled by the setting "Show Menu Item Name" that appears when you enable icon only menu. The label can be shown in the title bar, as in the above two screenshots, or below the title bar. The setting for this is "Show Item Name in Top Bar", which appears if you enable "Show Menu Item Name". This is how the label looks below the top bar:
As I mentioned before, you can choose you own icon for each menu item/submenu item, when you configure the menu/shelves. The configuration dialog now also shows you what the icon is for the menu/submenu item:
2. "High" position for shelves. Amber now allows for the shelves to be in a High postion. This is only useful in the vertical menu, in particular if you have the menu configured so that the top item is the one always selected (you can do this by having a non static, no wraparound navigation vertical menu that starts at the first item). You can configure this like so:
And it looks like this:
It is important to note that if the shelves are in the high position, the menu/submenu item label will only show up in the top bar, not below it.
3. Video Lyrics. If you have script.cu.lrclyrics as your lyrics addon in Amber, you can enable the Video Lyrics mod created by @manfeed . The setting is here:
And the result is this:
4. Playing whole albums from shelves is optional. Before, if you had script.playalbum installed and enabled in your system, and you clicked on an album in a shelf, the album would start playing immediately. This is now optional, and the default is NOT to play whole albums from shelves. You can find the new setting here:
5. Backgrounds can be animated with Ken Burns effect. You can now have the backgrounds be animated with a Ken Burns effect (panning and zooming). You can find the new setting here:
Please note that this setting is global, so once activated, ALL backgrounds are animated.
6. Miscellanous Fixes. Some additional fixes were completed, such as (list is not comprehensive):
- Overlapping text in plot for List and Panel type views when auto scrolling is enabled.
- Unneeded additional seek slider in the Video OSD
- Positioning fixes for the info line
Since some of these changes are big (icon menu, shelves in high position), please test thoroughly and let me know if you find any issues. Thanks.
NOTE: If you enable the icon only menu and you are not seeing the icons, you might need to remove the file "script-skinshortcuts-includes.xml" from the skin's 1080i folder. If this does not solve the issue for you, unfortunately you will have to go to the <userdata>\addon_data\script.skinshortcuts folder in you system and delete all files that have "amber" in the file name. This has the undesired effect of resetting all your menu/submenu/shelves configuration. I have not been able to determine why this is needed for some people, but not for others.
Regards,
Bart
I have uploaded versions 3.2.126 (Leia) and 3.4.13 (Matrix) to the Amber repos (these versions were already on GitHub). The main changes are:
1. Icon only vertical menu/submenu. Amber now supports an icon only vertical menu/submenu. The skin includes icons for the default menu and submenu items, but you can choose your own icons for the menu and submenu items. The new setting for icon only menu is here:
And the menu/submenu look like this:
As you can see from the above 2 screenshots, you can have the menu item/submenu item label(s) show up. This is controlled by the setting "Show Menu Item Name" that appears when you enable icon only menu. The label can be shown in the title bar, as in the above two screenshots, or below the title bar. The setting for this is "Show Item Name in Top Bar", which appears if you enable "Show Menu Item Name". This is how the label looks below the top bar:
As I mentioned before, you can choose you own icon for each menu item/submenu item, when you configure the menu/shelves. The configuration dialog now also shows you what the icon is for the menu/submenu item:
2. "High" position for shelves. Amber now allows for the shelves to be in a High postion. This is only useful in the vertical menu, in particular if you have the menu configured so that the top item is the one always selected (you can do this by having a non static, no wraparound navigation vertical menu that starts at the first item). You can configure this like so:
And it looks like this:
It is important to note that if the shelves are in the high position, the menu/submenu item label will only show up in the top bar, not below it.
3. Video Lyrics. If you have script.cu.lrclyrics as your lyrics addon in Amber, you can enable the Video Lyrics mod created by @manfeed . The setting is here:
And the result is this:
4. Playing whole albums from shelves is optional. Before, if you had script.playalbum installed and enabled in your system, and you clicked on an album in a shelf, the album would start playing immediately. This is now optional, and the default is NOT to play whole albums from shelves. You can find the new setting here:
5. Backgrounds can be animated with Ken Burns effect. You can now have the backgrounds be animated with a Ken Burns effect (panning and zooming). You can find the new setting here:
Please note that this setting is global, so once activated, ALL backgrounds are animated.
6. Miscellanous Fixes. Some additional fixes were completed, such as (list is not comprehensive):
- Overlapping text in plot for List and Panel type views when auto scrolling is enabled.
- Unneeded additional seek slider in the Video OSD
- Positioning fixes for the info line
Since some of these changes are big (icon menu, shelves in high position), please test thoroughly and let me know if you find any issues. Thanks.
NOTE: If you enable the icon only menu and you are not seeing the icons, you might need to remove the file "script-skinshortcuts-includes.xml" from the skin's 1080i folder. If this does not solve the issue for you, unfortunately you will have to go to the <userdata>\addon_data\script.skinshortcuts folder in you system and delete all files that have "amber" in the file name. This has the undesired effect of resetting all your menu/submenu/shelves configuration. I have not been able to determine why this is needed for some people, but not for others.
Regards,
Bart
