[KiSUAN]

Is anyone else having choppy searching while browsing through their video library? This skin would be perfect but doing fast browsing is a pain. While in showcase view, if I hold down the right arrow key to scan through movies, it'll pause for a second every 6-7 movies. It's much slower compared to regular night skin.

It's down to HDD speed. I Have the same issue but mine is down to a slow NAS speed. My Local HDD is fast, but as soon as I get to the part in my library that has content on my NAS, it slows down. This is in part due the "ExtraFanArt" and "ExtraThumbs" folders I Have. XBMC does not cashe them. So they have to be reloaded every time you start skipping along your library.

Well that is what I think it is anyway.

Think I see what jz1276 mean.

First both skins behave in the same way with Showcase View and No ExThumb, they are the same code wise. When I underclocked one of my machines I was able to see, as stated before in both skins, a small pause when continuous scroll, this is due to the amount of info that is being displayed, there are a crap load of fields being loaded with no pause. So if you don't have a pretty heavy machine you are always going to notice this.

Then when you enable ExThumbs this behavior gets more evident, as Oddsodz stated this info is not cached by XBMC, if the file is located in a slow HD this is worst. And it's here when you can see a difference between both skins, with Purity displaying worst scrolling, this is due to the extra work of the animation and conditions for the ExThumb not present in Night and with continuous scrolling it gets kinda "stuck".

Anyway, you might find more useful, a better experience and performance by using the Navbar. I'm sorry but I don't see a way of making this better as there isn't another way to code it, unless I remove the animation/conditions, which I won't do as I don't like having the frames all the time and like the animation, so unless more people ask for it I won't change it, but can tell you how too, it's pretty simple, open Viewtype_Showcase.xml and replace this:

Code:

<animation effect="slide" start="600,0" end="0,0" time="800" delay="600" condition="![IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(8245)) + IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(8246))]">Conditional</animation>

for

Code:

<animation effect="slide" start="600,0" end="0,0" condition="Skin.HasSetting(extrathumbs)">Conditional</animation>

and delete this two lines

Code:

<animation effect="slide" start="0,0" end="285,0" time="0" condition="Skin.HasSetting(extrathumbs)">Conditional</animation>

Code:

<animation effect="slide" start="0,0" end="-285,0" time="400" delay="500" condition="![IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(8245)) + IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(8246))]">Conditional</animation>

Enjoy