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RE: Amber for Leia/Matrix - Filmbuff - 2021-02-27

(2021-02-27, 00:00)bsoriano Wrote:
(2021-02-24, 17:50)Filmbuff Wrote:
(2021-02-24, 15:23)bsoriano Wrote: @Filmbuff , unfortunately, I cannot reproduce this issue on Windows, which is the only environment that I can test in at this time.

Regards,

Bart
@bsoriano 
That's fine, it's not that big of a deal. I tried it with the default skin, to see if it's a Kodi/Android issue, but surprisingly it works as it should on the default skin, very odd indeed.
@Filmbuff , could you please try the latest from GitHub? I made some fixes to the seek bar that I am hoping will resolve this issue.  Please let me know if it is indeed solved.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

@bsoriano  Perfect, thank you! Now it stays on for a couple of seconds.


RE: Amber for Leia/Matrix - NoBiluS - 2021-03-01

Hi Bart, 

I've just tested Amber and for me it's near the perfection, thks to the work since 2 years !
I use the fanart view with netflix option and clearlogo.

I have 2 questions : 

1/ Is it possible to hide the name of movies at this position ? Cause for me, it make a double with the clear logo at upper left.

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And center the icons ?

2/ I use only smart playlist in kodi, but its not possible to have the good number of movies, cause it works on movie library statistic and take cartoons in the count. Can you make an option to select smart playlist movie library to have the good result ?

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Thks a lot Smile


RE: Amber for Leia/Matrix - snarfo - 2021-03-01

It's Stupid Question Time. I display my media views in Tall List and I've been trying to get it to display like it does in the view selector dialog, but for some reason in my Movies library I can't get any list views (except Big List) to display the movie's release date as it shows in the selector example. I haven't found any options to toggle that on or off. Any pointers? Feel free to start with a heavy sigh and an eyeroll--- I won't be offended :-)


RE: Amber for Leia/Matrix - phantom10 - 2021-03-01

Amber is an amazing skin and I got some questions for which I couldn't find an answer. I use Kodi on Windows with the mouse. Skin Version 3.2.126.

1) The seek bar is not clickable. I can't jump to a specific part of the movie.
2) When I move the mouse during a movie (which sometimes happens by accident when sitting on the sofa), the info screen takes 60% of the screen and shows the huge fanart. Is there any way to have a minimal version of it since I only need the critical buttons and seek bar?
3) Trakt: "Next episodes" shows the highest show and not based on the last one I watched. The Trakt website has an option to choose the behavior. So if I watch a later episode it will always stay as the next episode even if I didn't watch the earlier seasons yet. The setting is called: 
"Calculate Up Next Using:"

thank you very much.


RE: Amber for Leia/Matrix - bsoriano - 2021-03-02

(2021-03-01, 21:35)snarfo Wrote: It's Stupid Question Time. I display my media views in Tall List and I've been trying to get it to display like it does in the view selector dialog, but for some reason in my Movies library I can't get any list views (except Big List) to display the movie's release date as it shows in the selector example. I haven't found any options to toggle that on or off. Any pointers? Feel free to start with a heavy sigh and an eyeroll--- I won't be offended :-)
@snarfo , in my opinion, the only stupid question is the one you do not ask, so no worries! What is shown in the view selector next to the movie title in Tall List is actually the date added, not the movie release date.  To have that label appear, ensure that you have the setting "Hide Second Label in List Views" set to No, like this:

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Then, if you sort your movies by date added, you should see Tall List like this:

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Regards,

Bart


RE: Amber for Leia/Matrix - bsoriano - 2021-03-02

(2021-03-01, 23:23)phantom10 Wrote: Amber is an amazing skin and I got some questions for which I couldn't find an answer. I use Kodi on Windows with the mouse. Skin Version 3.2.126.

1) The seek bar is not clickable. I can't jump to a specific part of the movie.
2) When I move the mouse during a movie (which sometimes happens by accident when sitting on the sofa), the info screen takes 60% of the screen and shows the huge fanart. Is there any way to have a minimal version of it since I only need the critical buttons and seek bar?
3) Trakt: "Next episodes" shows the highest show and not based on the last one I watched. The Trakt website has an option to choose the behavior. So if I watch a later episode it will always stay as the next episode even if I didn't watch the earlier seasons yet. The setting is called: 
"Calculate Up Next Using:"

thank you very much.
@phantom10 , thank you for your kind words.

1) I checked and fixed the issue.  The changes are already on GitHub.

2) I will add this to my To-Do.  No promises on ETA, though.

3) Where are you seeing this? The skin does not have a Trakt Next Episodes shelf/widget.  Please clarify.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart


RE: Amber for Leia/Matrix - bsoriano - 2021-03-02

(2021-03-01, 13:14)NoBiluS Wrote: Hi Bart, 

I've just tested Amber and for me it's near the perfection, thks to the work since 2 years !
I use the fanart view with netflix option and clearlogo.

I have 2 questions : 

1/ Is it possible to hide the name of movies at this position ? Cause for me, it make a double with the clear logo at upper left.

Image

Image

And center the icons ?

2/ I use only smart playlist in kodi, but its not possible to have the good number of movies, cause it works on movie library statistic and take cartoons in the count. Can you make an option to select smart playlist movie library to have the good result ?

Image

Thks a lot Smile
@NoBiluS , thank you for your kind words.

As for your first request, I will add this to my To-Do; no promises on ETA, though.  

In terms of the second, yes, you can have playlist statistics as the statistics line.  Just choose "Movie Playlist Statistics" as the option for the statistics line.  Here is how I have configured my Top 250 playlist menu item:

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And it gives me this:

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You will notice from y example that I have enabled to use Embuary Helper for Playlist Backgrounds, and selected a small number of playlist fanarts to use as background.  This is so that the backgrounds show up sooner for playlists, and also to avoid getting black backgrounds if there is any item in the playlist that does not have fanart.

Regards,

Bart


RE: Amber for Leia/Matrix - jdig4240 - 2021-03-04

Hey bsoriano, just curious. Your skin works well on Touchscreens. Can you tell me if you made any specific changes to get this to work correctly on Touchscreens? I notice many skins that are having touchscreen issues on Matrix, but you seem to have figured it out correctly. Thanks!!

Oh, and one thing you might have overlooked with the changes to Matrix. In the  dialogaddonifo.xml the type="button" id="14" needs to be added so the "Versions"  button shows up so you can update/check for other versions of the addon in the Addon Information screen.


RE: Amber for Leia/Matrix - phantom10 - 2021-03-04

(2021-03-02, 22:17)bsoriano Wrote:
(2021-03-01, 23:23)phantom10 Wrote:  
@phantom10 , thank you for your kind words.

1) I checked and fixed the issue.  The changes are already on GitHub.

2) I will add this to my To-Do.  No promises on ETA, though.

3) Where are you seeing this? The skin does not have a Trakt Next Episodes shelf/widget.  Please clarify.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart

I see it at: "TV Shows -> Next Episodes". I thought that it is the list from Trakt but maybe I am wrong?
It is nearly identical with "https://trakt.tv/users/USERNAME/progress/watched/activity?hide_completed=true"
Except that it shows the list according to this Trakt setting "Calculate up next using: Last episode aired" instead of "Last episode watched"


RE: Amber for Leia/Matrix - bsoriano - 2021-03-04

(2021-03-04, 05:28)jdig4240 Wrote: Hey bsoriano, just curious. Your skin works well on Touchscreens. Can you tell me if you made any specific changes to get this to work correctly on Touchscreens? I notice many skins that are having touchscreen issues on Matrix, but you seem to have figured it out correctly. Thanks!!

Oh, and one thing you might have overlooked with the changes to Matrix. In the  dialogaddonifo.xml the type="button" id="14" needs to be added so the "Versions"  button shows up so you can update/check for other versions of the addon in the Addon Information screen.
@jdig4240, thanks for the info! I had already added button 14 to the addon info dialog.

As for touchscreens, the credit goes to @pecinko who created the skin, I just follow his design.  The only items I have created specifically for mouse/touchscreen are buttons you can enable that allow you to go back, go to the home screen and bring out the sideblade; I also adapted @sualfred 's code to have a touch friendly alphabet strip, and I also made some changes to make the OSD more mouse/touchscreen friendly.  Thank you for the feedback that the skin works well on touchscreens Smile

Regards,

Bart


RE: Amber for Leia/Matrix - Filmbuff - 2021-03-04

Amber keeps getting better for every update, great work @bsoriano!

A suggestion, would it be possible to alter the search results in the skin?
I use global search, only search in local library, and show only local info.

As it looks now.

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This is my suggestion.

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1 would use the movie poster.
2 would use the movie fanart.
3 would show up the media flags for the selected movie.

Additionally, maybe enable sorting of the search results by year as well as alphabetically.


RE: Amber for Leia/Matrix - NoBiluS - 2021-03-04

(2021-03-02, 22:24)bsoriano Wrote:
(2021-03-01, 13:14)NoBiluS Wrote: Hi Bart, 

I've just tested Amber and for me it's near the perfection, thks to the work since 2 years !
I use the fanart view with netflix option and clearlogo.

2/ I use only smart playlist in kodi, but its not possible to have the good number of movies, cause it works on movie library statistic and take cartoons in the count. Can you make an option to select smart playlist movie library to have the good result ?

Image

Thks a lot Smile
@NoBiluS , thank you for your kind words.

As for your first request, I will add this to my To-Do; no promises on ETA, though.  

In terms of the second, yes, you can have playlist statistics as the statistics line.  Just choose "Movie Playlist Statistics" as the option for the statistics line.  Here is how I have configured my Top 250 playlist menu item:

Image

And it gives me this:

Image


You will notice from y example that I have enabled to use Embuary Helper for Playlist Backgrounds, and selected a small number of playlist fanarts to use as background.  This is so that the backgrounds show up sooner for playlists, and also to avoid getting black backgrounds if there is any item in the playlist that does not have fanart.

Regards,

Bart
Thks Bart, so i dont have the option movie playlist statistic in my list...

For the first request, when you have the time, and its not necessary to center the logo, it can be same without text at the bottom Smile 

Thks !

@Cyberdom, tu peux me dire ce que sont les noeuds de films ? Je ne comprends pas la traduction ! 
Merci


RE: Amber for Leia/Matrix - bsoriano - 2021-03-04

(2021-03-04, 14:18)Filmbuff Wrote: Amber keeps getting better for every update, great work @bsoriano!

A suggestion, would it be possible to alter the search results in the skin?
I use global search, only search in local library, and show only local info.

As it looks now.

Image


This is my suggestion.

Image

1 would use the movie poster.
2 would use the movie fanart.
3 would show up the media flags for the selected movie.

Additionally, maybe enable sorting of the search results by year as well as alphabetically.
@Filmbuff , thanks for your kind words Smile

I will see what I can do about your request, since the dialog that is shown for the search results is just the select dialog, which is used everywhere in the skin.  I think that I will be able to manage your requests, except for the sorting of the results, since Kodi manages that.  More to come on this.

Regards,

Bart


RE: Amber for Leia/Matrix - NoBiluS - 2021-03-04

Another thing, i wanna try the vertical menu with icon list (estuary), but i dont have the icon menu that i show some previous page in yout post.

I probably did not understand the manipulation to be done...


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RE: Amber for Leia/Matrix - Cyberdom - 2021-03-04

(2021-03-04, 17:56)NoBiluS Wrote: @Cyberdom, tu peux me dire ce que sont les noeuds de films ? Je ne comprends pas la traduction ! 
Merci
It seems to me that movies nodes are views for organizing files from the videos menu.
https://kodi.wiki/view/Video_nodes

But I let @bsoriano give more details on the movies nodes.