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RE: Arctic Horizon - dm21912 - 2020-08-23

on the subject of widgets, I think ive asked this before and you may have said no (in which case blame my awful memory), or you may not have noticed my request.. 

On music album widgets, the album title is both below the icon and also in the text line above

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It would be nice if the text above could instead say artist name for music widgets


RE: Arctic Horizon - dm21912 - 2020-08-23

getting an error when trying to update from repo version. it cannot find tmdb helper 3.3.13

2020-08-23 19:25:15.302 T:17066   ERROR: CAddonInstallJob[skin.arctic.horizon]: The dependency on plugin.video.themoviedb.helper version 3.3.13 could not be satisfied.

fixed by dowloaded 13.3.3 from repo but for some reason despite multiple refreshes of repo 13.3.2 was latest showing for me


RE: Arctic Horizon - drinfernoo - 2020-08-23

(2020-08-23, 20:29)dm21912 Wrote: getting an error when trying to update from repo version. it cannot find tmdb helper 3.3.13

2020-08-23 19:25:15.302 T:17066   ERROR: CAddonInstallJob[skin.arctic.horizon]: The dependency on plugin.video.themoviedb.helper version 3.3.13 could not be satisfied.

fixed by dowloaded 13.3.3 from repo but for some reason despite multiple refreshes of repo 13.3.2 was latest showing for me

I haven't had a chance to update the repo with the newest versions yet, but will get to it as soon as I can Big Grin


RE: Arctic Horizon - pkscout - 2020-08-23

I'm seeing something odd and intermittent with 0.5.0 that I can't 100% find steps to reproduce.  Sometimes on the home screen the information line seems to keep hold of information from another screen. Again, I can't really predict what will cause the problem, but once it happens I can fix it my arrowing down to highlight one of the items in the widget and then back up.

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RE: Arctic Horizon - pkscout - 2020-08-23

OK, while I'm on the info line, I have a request. In the PVR Timers screen I like to be able to see the plot (if provided), so I use the square row layout. Unfortunately with that layout I lose the date the show is actually being recorded (on the list screen it's in the list item). Would it be possible to add the date of the scheduled timer to the info line with the PVR TV Timers?  Thanks.

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RE: Arctic Horizon - Rijs43 - 2020-08-23

(2020-08-23, 20:10)drinfernoo Wrote:
(2020-08-23, 19:41)Rijs43 Wrote:
(2020-08-23, 10:21)jurialmunkey Wrote: 0.5.0 - Widget Overhaul

Heads-up for every one - version 0.5.0 overhauls the widget system.

There are several benefits:
  • Submenu is single row
  • Info is no longer limited to single widget pages and can be set for any widget (set in widget customisation -- "Display Info")
  • Fullscreen hub widget no longer requires using showcase hub replacement and can be set for any widget page.
  • Fullscreen widget now allows multiple "normal" widgets stacked underneath rather than switched via submenu
  • Settings widget navigation between rows now behaves properly

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Hi @jurialmunkey,

After testing the 2nd picture format..

I think it needs more cleanup on the screen.

1. Perhaps a divider between poster and text?

2. Remove header text (I.e. TV Shows etc)

3. Perhaps a slightly different background colour for text/ clearart section

4. The lower widget is showing a cut off of the widget header

For 3., there are a couple different options for styling of the divider, which I feel like each give a very distinctive look.

For 4., that is by design, to "hint" that there are more widgets to scroll.

Regarding point 3.. something similar to info dialogue with shadow divider would be great but this as just an idea..

Regarding point 4.. this is working for the widget if no Display info is visible, if so you see only a quarter of the below widget header.. if display info is disabled you will see the entire text.. so now I have more like a white line at the bottom of my screen when display info is enabled for lower widgets. Hope this makes sense


RE: Arctic Horizon - drinfernoo - 2020-08-24

I did just update the repo Big Grin

One thing I noticed right away: I set up.the first widget in a section without info, and the second one with info. When scrolling through the first widget, the info below showed the info for the second widget, but the ratings changed based on what was focused in the first widget.

Would it be possible to only show the info if the widget is focused?


RE: Arctic Horizon - jurialmunkey - 2020-08-24

(2020-08-24, 02:50)drinfernoo Wrote: I did just update the repo Big Grin

One thing I noticed right away: I set up.the first widget in a section without info, and the second one with info. When scrolling through the first widget, the info below showed the info for the second widget, but the ratings changed based on what was focused in the first widget.

Would it be possible to only show the info if the widget is focused?

I can't actually hide the info due to the way Kodi calculates the grouplist positioning. Basically because the end position of grouplist movement is calculated before the focus events fire, the gap left by the info causes a bunch of scenarios where the focused widget ends up off screen.

I've tried a *lot* of different ways to try to get it to work properly and I got pretty close but there was always at least one common navigation scenario where I'd end up with either the widget or the info offscreen when it shouldn't have been. The other option was a fade animation, but the big empty gap looked really weird.


Anyway, in the latest I've got it working so that *all* info spots will adapt to show the info for the widget currently on-screen, which should solve the majority of the issues.

e.g. Here's a setup I test where the widgets are:
1. Background Widget
2. Standard Widget
3. Info Widget

Normally in that scenario there's two issues: the info for (1) will still be on screen when moving down to (2); and the info for (3) will still be on screen when moving up to (2). But as you can see from the screenshots below, that's no longer an issue:

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RE: Arctic Horizon - drinfernoo - 2020-08-24

(2020-08-24, 11:05)jurialmunkey Wrote:
(2020-08-24, 02:50)drinfernoo Wrote: I did just update the repo Big Grin

One thing I noticed right away: I set up.the first widget in a section without info, and the second one with info. When scrolling through the first widget, the info below showed the info for the second widget, but the ratings changed based on what was focused in the first widget.

Would it be possible to only show the info if the widget is focused?

I can't actually hide the info due to the way Kodi calculates the grouplist positioning. Basically because the end position of grouplist movement is calculated before the focus events fire, the gap left by the info causes a bunch of scenarios where the focused widget ends up off screen.

I've tried a *lot* of different ways to try to get it to work properly and I got pretty close but there was always at least one common navigation scenario where I'd end up with either the widget or the info offscreen when it shouldn't have been. The other option was a fade animation, but the big empty gap looked really weird.


Anyway, in the latest I've got it working so that *all* info spots will adapt to show the info for the widget currently on-screen, which should solve the majority of the issues.

e.g. Here's a setup I test where the widgets are:
1. Background Widget
2. Standard Widget
3. Info Widget

Normally in that scenario there's two issues: the info for (1) will still be on screen when moving down to (2); and the info for (3) will still be on screen when moving up to (2). But as you can see from the screenshots below, that's no longer an issue:

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That looks great!


RE: Arctic Horizon - sasquatchjaques - 2020-08-24

New layout looks awesome

Would it be possible to add the option to display the clear logo in upper left rather then the section header as I feel this would tie in with the overall look 🤔

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RE: Arctic Horizon - umonkey - 2020-08-24

@jurialmunkey Loving the updates thanks and the new horizontal menu perfect. However since the rework of the widgets I'm no longer getting the next page item when the widget is linked to tmdb helper addon??


Arctic Horizon - darsuke - 2020-08-24

In that screenshot of The Handmaid's Tale it appears almost full screen. I don't know how to achieve that.

Has that always been an option or it came with version 5?


RE: Arctic Horizon - dm21912 - 2020-08-24

Are there any plans to skin global search?

I appreciate youve done work with how search is presented and used within the skin, but i was looking to use global search as i can be more specific.

for instance, on my music menu i have search option and that only searches artists and albums using runscript(script.globalsearch,artists=true&albums=true&songs=true)

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at the moment though global search uses default kodi skin. 

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or maybe there is a way to search only artists/albums, or shows with a command rather than using GS?


RE: Arctic Horizon - FXB78 - 2020-08-24

(2020-08-24, 21:22)darsuke Wrote: In that screenshot of The Handmaid's Tale it appears almost full screen. I don't know how to achieve that.

Has that always been an option or it came with version 5?
Always been there: 'Fullscreen Widget', although I think it was called Showcase Hub previously.


RE: Arctic Horizon - darsuke - 2020-08-24

(2020-08-24, 22:41)FXB78 Wrote:
(2020-08-24, 21:22)darsuke Wrote: In that screenshot of The Handmaid's Tale it appears almost full screen. I don't know how to achieve that.

Has that always been an option or it came with version 5?
Always been there: 'Fullscreen Widget', although I think it was called Showcase Hub previously.
Am still not understanding how to utilise it. I think I got the full screen to display but it's always blank. There's never anything populating. Not sure how to explain but it's obvious I'm doing something wrong if you all have it working.