[foghat]

The addon probably calls a custom dialog when the play action is selected.

Skins don't have control over actions like that. Skins can define onclick / oninfo / onback actions BUT ONLY when these aren't already defined by Kodi. When it comes to a container with playable content then Kodi overrides the onclick action with whatever the user has chosen in the media settings for default select action (i.e. choose; play; resume; or show info). So what happens is that when a user clicks on something playable, if the default action is play then Kodi attempts to start playing the content. If the content needs to load then Kodi will make DialogBusy.xml visible. If the content is from an addon then Kodi will tell the addon to play the content -- this is when the plex addon would call its own custom busy dialog.

Its not like the skin receives the actions/clicks and then tells Kodi what to do. It is the other way around. Kodi receives the clicks and then decides what properties to set and what windows/dialogs to make visible etc. Only in cases where it doesn't have something specifically defined to do for that action will it check to see if the skin has defined an action.

Its the same reason why you will notice that when playing music/video, pressing back whilst on a widget will open the visualisation/video rather than return to the side menu. In this scenario the onback setfocus command that I have defined in the skin is overridden by Kodi with the fullscreen command.

All this is done to enforce that behaviours remain fairly consistent across skins and so that keymaps and user settings aren't overridden by skins.

Got it thanks.

[foghat]

Colorbox advanced settings

Heads up for everyone that I've added an advanced settings dialog for colorbox.

This is intended to work with the most recent github version of colorbox which is currently waiting approval for official repo. The settings will still work with the current repo version, but a few wont do anything (desaturate effect wont work and blend control will do nothing as these are both new features).

This should give everyone the ability to fine tune effects how they want. Note that changing the image quality will also change the intensity of the effect due to a shift in resolution. For effects like blur I recommend using Quality at 8 (the lowest setting) as it will be the fastest and because the image is blurred it isn't possible to really tell much of a difference.

The image window should give real time updates so that you can preview your effect settings.

This is very cool thx. There is another donation coming your way. In celebration of all the great work you are doing here and also on me coming into another contract and only having a nice 2 week break (instead of 2+ months) between contracts.

Yes, inside the library would be great but you could add an option to disable it for users who may fined it confusing.
Are you going to highlight the icons or keep the slim vertical scroll bar as navigation?
I like the slims vertical scroll bar option or highlighted borders around the icons. Do you have other ideas in mind.

I'm only going to have the one option, otherwise the settings get way too bloated. Plus it gets difficult managing multiple conditions.
Using the slim highlight on the side. When the menu isn't focused, only the icon will be slightly brighter and the highlight will disappear.

You can test on latest git. Option is in Skin Settings > Miscellaneous > Icon only mode (scroll down to see it).

some proposals for the icon mode
1. The addition of an indicator if there are submenus
2. At settings, i think it should be added the name of highlighted menu somewhere on the screen, possibly at the topbar. Settings screen has so many icons that it's difficult to navigate. Maybe when highlight a setting menu to become active instantly like home menu does, so the name is visible at the topbar

Agreed. There either needs to be an option to use icons on home screen only, or there needs to be some way to identify what the icon is when selected - as there are just too many icons once you move outside the home screen - whether that is further into the library or into settings. If cannot do both, my preference would be for an option to show icons only on home screen.

[Hinkel]

Hello @jurialmunkey, I have some doubts. First, does Horizon skin have Artwork Beef support?

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=258886

If the answer is yes, would it be necessary to install Artwork Helper? And finally, if I use Artwork Beef could I uninstall Artwork Downloader? Thank you in advance. Cheers.

[jurialmunkey]

Hello @jurialmunkey, I have some doubts. First, does Horizon skin have Artwork Beef support?

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=258886

If the answer is yes, would it be necessary to install Artwork Helper? And finally, if I use Artwork Beef could I uninstall Artwork Downloader? Thank you in advance. Cheers.

I've never used Artwork Beef, but it is my understanding that it doesn't need skin support - It just runs automatically. The skin doesn't have Artwork Helper support though.

You can uninstall Artwork Downloader if you wish, the skin will work fine without it.

[Hinkel]

Hello @jurialmunkey, I have some doubts. First, does Horizon skin have Artwork Beef support?

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=258886

If the answer is yes, would it be necessary to install Artwork Helper? And finally, if I use Artwork Beef could I uninstall Artwork Downloader? Thank you in advance. Cheers.

I've never used Artwork Beef, but it is my understanding that it doesn't need skin support - It just runs automatically. The skin doesn't have Artwork Helper support though.

You can uninstall Artwork Downloader if you wish, the skin will work fine without it.

Thank you

[jurialmunkey]

This is very cool thx. There is another donation coming your way. In celebration of all the great work you are doing here and also on me coming into another contract and only having a nice 2 week break (instead of 2+ months) between contracts.

Agreed. There either needs to be an option to use icons on home screen only, or there needs to be some way to identify what the icon is when selected - as there are just too many icons once you move outside the home screen - whether that is further into the library or into settings. If cannot do both, my preference would be for an option to show icons only on home screen.

Thanks!
Much appreciated!

I've got a simple solution. When the side menu is focused, the sub header will show what the icon label is:

[jurialmunkey]

How do I add Reload Skin to my main screen(submenu)

Just add a menu item like any other.
Click "Action" and scroll down the bottom to "Custom Item >" and input

Code:

ReloadSkin()

Give the item a label and save.

[Edworld]

Jurialmunkey:

Colorbox advances settings, can you add in the description box for each type of bkur what the default vakues are?

A fancy solution would be a default button on each type.

Thanks

[foghat]

This is very cool thx. There is another donation coming your way. In celebration of all the great work you are doing here and also on me coming into another contract and only having a nice 2 week break (instead of 2+ months) between contracts.

Agreed. There either needs to be an option to use icons on home screen only, or there needs to be some way to identify what the icon is when selected - as there are just too many icons once you move outside the home screen - whether that is further into the library or into settings. If cannot do both, my preference would be for an option to show icons only on home screen.

Thanks!
Much appreciated!

I've got a simple solution. When the side menu is focused, the sub header will show what the icon label is:

Awesome! thx.

[jurialmunkey]

Colorbox advances settings, can you add in the description box for each type of bkur what the default vakues are?
A fancy solution would be a default button on each type.

I just pushed an update where it will reset the effect to the recommended defaults when cycling through the different effects. I tried a few different approaches and this was the best. A lot of the settings are shared between effects so it makes no sense to retain them. Plus a few of the effects work better with different quality settings (twotone/desaturate/dataglitch really all should be set to 1 for quality, whereas things like blur should be set to 8 for the performance increase).

Labelling the defaults is a bit confusing because the change in resolution from quality level will interfere with the other effect settings -- e.g. with pixelate if the pixelsize is 4 and quality is 8 the size of the blocks will be the same as if pixelsize was 32 and quality was 1 (it will just have more fidelity)

I also added a reset to defaults button which basically does the same thing as cycling through, but is useful if you are playing around with settings and want to compare back to what the original ones were.

[taurus35]

jurialmunkey,

Great work, loving the latest updates....very slick.

Have just noticed on the Movie Info page I have no icon showing for the new CinemaVision option that's been added.

Just also noticed that when in Icon only mode the backgrounds shift the width of the icon bar but then don't shift at all if you pop into a sub-menu.

Cheers

[jurialmunkey]

jurialmunkey,

Great work, loving the latest updates....very slick.

Have just noticed on the Movie Info page I have no icon showing for the new CinemaVision option that's been added.

Just also noticed that when in Icon only mode the backgrounds shift the width of the icon bar but then don't shift at all if you pop into a sub-menu.

Cheers

Thanks

Cinemavision icon is showing for me. Sometimes what can happen is when switching between skins some of the icons wont load correctly. It can be fixed by restarting kodi.

Fixed the background shifting bug (forgot to disable parallax animation when icon only mode is enabled).

[taurus35]

jurialmunkey,

Great work, loving the latest updates....very slick.

Have just noticed on the Movie Info page I have no icon showing for the new CinemaVision option that's been added.

Just also noticed that when in Icon only mode the backgrounds shift the width of the icon bar but then don't shift at all if you pop into a sub-menu.

Cheers

Thanks

Cinemavision icon is showing for me. Sometimes what can happen is when switching between skins some of the icons wont load correctly. It can be fixed by restarting kodi.

Fixed the background shifting bug (forgot to disable parallax animation when icon only mode is enabled).

jurialmunkey,

Thanks, quick work

CinamaVision icon now showing for me once I restarted.
Parallax animation is now stopped on icon only view..is it supposed to work on sub-menus in icon only mode? or is it intentional that it doesn't?

Cheers.

[Blurayx]

How do I add Reload Skin to my main screen(submenu)

Just add a menu item like any other.
Click "Action" and scroll down the bottom to "Custom Item >" and input

Code:

ReloadSkin()

Give the item a label and save.

Thanks

[bsoriano]

Jurial,

Here is an updated zip with Spanish strings. It is up to date as of your latest changes in Git. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AlII29kkG6TFh_NppabBY1D7bN9rUA

Regards,

Bart