[Skin]Lighter Confluence for XB0X

[VanZan]

I downloaded the latest nightly and my question is can I use Confluence Lite with another build such as Jan's XBMC4XBOX v2.1? Or will it only work with the latest builds? Thanks guys and sorry for being a numpty.

[skatulskijean]

recently added works only with the nighltly Builds

i make in next days a new build from my jan'sEnglish xbmc4xbox

regards jan

[BuZz]

worth noting that if you are running the nightlies, pm3 skin will not look right. it's a change in the way it seems to handle text overflow with some of the gui updates. it can be fixed in the skin (which has a lot of old defunct ways of doing things including non existant tags), or it might be something I can workaround in the code.

[Geeba]

Has there been much in the way of memory gain with the lighter skin?

[xbs]

Give it a try and post your findings

[Nextelhalo]

I dont know about much memory gain but it's alot snappier and quicker through the menus. Fanart pic's load almost instantly and transitions are very smooth.

@xbs, i was able to put that code it and get wide icons to work but i'm running into an odd problem. When XBMC generates thumbnails out of the wide icons i have most of them show up nice and clean but some have big pixels and look like low res pictures. I've redone all the icons and cleared out the thumbs cache. Any pointers on that?

[trogggy]

I really like this skin, so first of all a big thanks xbs!
But (there's always one)...
I've noticed some strange behaviour. If I click on Movies then I go into my list of films. If I then go back to the home page and click 'Videos' I get a choice of different libraries (TV, Movies, Playlists). If I go to the left and come out of library mode then I see my files, but the next time I click on Movies it also takes me to the files view (until I re-enable library mode).
If I'm on the home page and go to videos then 'files' in the sub-menu, and then come out and click Movies I also get a files view.

On my PC I don't see any of this - there's an option in skin settings to always go to file view when clicking videos and Movies always goes to my film library but I can't find that on the xbox.
Is it possible to add the 'always go to files when clicking Video'? Or is that just something I have to live with if I want to use it?

Edit: After a bit of reading I've realised that the new confluence lite doesn't have this, it's on the Eden version - although hopefully Jezzx will be adding it, so I'll make a plea now for you to port it across if and when he does!

[xbs]

Fixed in SVN. Movies now point to Movies node and TV Shows to TV Show node. Videos takes you back to where you were before, files or library.
Thing is that file mode is going to be merged (and die out eventually) with library mode... on the left slide menu (I've added it to the Xbox port) you can't find the library mode button any more.

[trogggy]

This place really needs a thanks button!

It would be a great shame if file mode disappeared though. There are always things that are better accessed that way - I have home videos, footy matches, F1 content and plenty of other stuff that I can't put in a library without spending too much time generating my own .nfo files for - as well as other stuff that's strictly temporary (eg plugging a usb drive in).
Maybe I've misunderstood what you're saying though.

[xbs]

AFAIK file mode is integrated in the library, for ex. the video xml that showed file mode videos only exists on the Xbox, it's possible to have files on the library but organized in folders.

jmarshall posted this:

"You can exclusively use file mode in Eden whilst STILL having pretty metadata for those folders for which XBMC's built-in library stuff suffices. eg if you have Movies, TV Shows and Music Videos, then you can quite happily scan those into XBMC's library, but browse them in filemode. When you do, you get all the pretty metadata. Dharma didn't have this, so for those of you who wish to organise their media using the filesystem, Eden is a great step up in this regard.

Obviously you're still somewhat restricted, as if you're browsing via filesystem then you can't do some of the niftier db-related stuff, but it's better than Dharma nonetheless."

[Dom DXecutioner]

xbs,

yesterday i took some time to modify my global search script; today i made some changes and thought i would take the time to ask you to test it out. the script now works almost in the same way the main xbmc script (emphasis on ALMOST).

you should be able to use the main xml gui from the confluence and confluence lite mod; you will, however, need to include all of the images that apply to those xml files; although during my test with confluence lite mod, it works pretty well.

the only difference is, i don't use the "SEASONS" section as did not find that useful; instead, however, this section will be used to search for movie actors... if any movie actors are found, it will display their name; once you click on the respective actor, it will take you to all the moves by the selected actor.

you may need to modify the label to reflect "actors" or "movie actors" or whatever suits your liking. i'm also considering adding a "tv shows actors" section but that have to be added to the xml as this does not exist in the main branch. i'm also considering to use the "season" section to be used for one single section for the actors, however, i will need to add other buttons to be able to select "movies" or "tv shows" with its respective counts of items. that is to say, if the actor has movies and tvshows (maybe even episodes), the gui should display the actor's name and uder it "Movies (5)", "tv shows (4)", "tv episodes (2)", then the user can select what they wish to browse.

also, i will need to add a section for searching games; again, the skin will need to support this new section as well... shouldn't be, too, difficult though.

anyway, if you get the change, please tested it out... [link removed]

[xbs]

I'll try it ASAP.
Thanks Dom.

[Dom DXecutioner]

i fixed the tvshows icons that were not showing up and the movies not playing; sorry bout that... http://www.mediafire.com/?5ryhz7go5cgbeyn

[xbs]

Noticed a couple of small issues...
The search window doesn't close when a song is started.
There's a typo in "Enter new search string..."
The "New Search" label isn't showing.
The top labels aren't showing either e.g. "Searching - Movies".
(These last two are related to control 198)


I also had to add the default background image

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<include>CommonBackground</include>

'cause it doesn't show the home screen in the background like XBMC... couldn't find why this happens but I think it's not related to the script but Xbmc4Xbox itself.

[Dom DXecutioner]

Noticed a couple of small issues...
The search window doesn't close when a song is started.
There's a typo in "Enter new search string..."
The "New Search" label isn't showing.
The top labels aren't showing either e.g. "Searching - Movies".
(These last two are related to control 198)


I also had to add the default background image

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<include>CommonBackground</include>

'cause it doesn't show the home screen in the background like XBMC... couldn't find why this happens but I think it's not related to the script but Xbmc4Xbox itself.

I will fix that when I get home from f from work. The reason why the home screen isn't showing is because I use a window and not a dialog, I may change that...also, I can make the fanart show but you will need to add an image with id of 99; the script will take care of the rest.

[Spongy]

I have a solution for you - I have backported the job manager and the core recentlyadded functionality from xbmc mainline.

Thanks for this BuZz. Recently added is a feature I always loved and never used because it killed the home screen. Now I it works great.

"confluence lite included in nightly builds as of r31403. Cheers!"

Thanks for bringing us this skin xbs. I spent an hour just setting up/enjoying the home screen.

Is it just me or does everything show as resume-able?
Even items marked as watched show the resume icon over top of the watched icon.


Where can I find the latest builds? Is there somewhere I can see the recent changes made?
I've begun modding it and would like to include any recent changes. The switching in and out of file mode has got me a few times.

[xbs]

http://redmine.exotica.org.uk/projects/ ... repository

BuZz is working on getting the resume feature ported to Xbmc4Xbox so I didn't remove the code. But overlapping is strange, I'll look into it.

[Nextelhalo]

@XBS, disregard my last question about the wide icons looking blurry, i've trouble shot the problem down to XBMC and not just the skin.

[BuZz]

increase the thumbsize in advanced settings somewhat. although the nightly build has some better size calculations based on overall area, ignoring aspect, if its still too blurry, you should increase the thumbsize more.

[xbs]

The resume overlay and watched overlay show up in the same position.
The issue is that the resume overlay is always visible because the feature isn't ported yet.