Confluence mod help

[sealeysonic]

Will do.....sorry about the late reply

[sealeysonic]

This work is still on going a is there any chance i can email a Home.xml for someone to change it do that all the buttons do the same as `pictures` button....apart from `Video` and system buttons...? pm me ur email addy plz

[lordkramdar]

I have a problem sort of concerning this...

So I've edited my Home menu to my liking.


But now I'm trying to get the custom skin settings to match up, in order to have custom backgrounds for each menu entry. I know you can just have a static background by adding it to the <icon> field of Home.xml, but I'm trying to have multi-image backgrounds on each menu entry. And for the life of me cannot figure it out on my own.



I can edit the <label> of it, but that's it. I can't figure out how to make each menu entry in here point to the one in Home, and vice versa.
Hopefully this all makes sense.

Oh, I'm editing Custom_Skin_Settings_1111 to try and do this, which I hope is correct.

Oh, and even though it looks like in the second picture, the backgrounds aren't functioning for the TV entry in Home, they're not. TV entry in Home menu is just the static videos.jpg, yet it shows up in here.

I thought it had something to do with this string:
<thumb>$INFO[Skin.String(Home_Custom_Back_Video_Folder)]</thumb> for that entry.
Tried to edit it to Custom_Back_TV_Folder, which is what is under the TV entry in Home.xml, so I have no idea. Can't figure it out. Might just have to go with static images for now.

[Spongy]

This work is still on going a is there any chance i can email a Home.xml for someone to change it do that all the buttons do the same as `pictures` button....apart from `Video` and system buttons...? pm me ur email addy plz

Sorry I missed this sealey, if you still want help paste the files to pastebin or something and post a link.

I know you can just have a static background by adding it to the <icon> field of Home.xml, but I'm trying to have multi-image backgrounds on each menu entry.

That's what the <thumb> tag is for.
Create a PM3.HD/backgrounds/movies folder and move the images you want into it.

Edit Home.xml to replace this.

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				<item id="1">
					<label>3</label>
					<onclick>ActivateWindow(Videos)</onclick>
					<icon>special://skin/backgrounds/videos.jpg</icon>
					<thumb>$INFO[Skin.String(Home_Custom_Back_Video_Folder)]</thumb>
					<visible>Library.HasContent(Video)</visible>
				</item>

with this.

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				<item id="1">
					<label>3</label>
					<onclick>ActivateWindow(Videos)</onclick>
					<icon>special://skin/backgrounds/videos.jpg</icon>
					<thumb>special://skin/backgrounds/movies/</thumb>
					<visible>Library.HasContent(Video)</visible>
				</item>

I prefer this way because you can easily copy/share the skin.

...Or you can edit <thumb> to put them where ever you want.
Example.

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					<thumb>E:/images/fanart/movies/</thumb>

This is nice if you have a lot of skins pointing at the same images.

If you want to add everything to the settings menu, it will take a lot more work.

[lordkramdar]

Awesome, that worked after some trial and error. Thanks!

[sealeysonic]

Here we go..i think....i wan all the buttons to goto Pictures.....(add source etc) apart from Videos.thanks

http://pastebin.com/aUczHd7j