[giftie]

I just tested on all the skins I have on my system and out of 27(yes 27 - these include SVN versions) only 9 have a problem(really 6 since 3 are SVN versions of the 6) It looks like the Skin developers have missed a couple of things.

I'm going to post my findings in the Skin Developing thread to see if fixes can come swiftly...

[Nuka1195]

the slides regex is case insensitive, but, since the change to compiling the regex, the re.IGNORECASE should be up in where the regex is being compiled, not in the search, plus you should use answer_format.search() not re.search(answer_format)

[Nuka1195]

also can we determine a goo format for handling themes/genres.

i think in the slides.xml since it is more flexible. the format i like is.

PHP Code:

<slides mpaa="PG-13" theme="George Lucas | Science Fiction | Star Wars">
    <slide>
        <question format="Q[0-9]+.jpg" />
        <clue format="Q[0-9]+c.jpg" />
        <answer format="Q[0-9]+a.jpg" />
    </slide>
</slides> 


mpaa could be "rating" or if need be, which i don't think it's necessary "bbfc/mpaa..."

[SlaveUnit]

If you do not use themes would you have:
<slides mpaa="PG-13" theme="N/A">
or
<slides mpaa="PG-13">

[Nuka1195]

<slides mpaa="PG-13" theme="">

or

<slides mpaa="PG-13">
no theme
or

<slides theme="80's">
no rating
or

<slides>
<slides mpaa="" theme="">
no rating or theme


any format will be picked up by the regex. i'll try to make it so a improperly formatted slides.xml will still be valid. which i think i have done, so if we decide on a format and giftie want's i'll supply it.

[Nuka1195]

and how sliders could look like with a patched xbmc

[SlaveUnit]

and how sliders could look like with a patched xbmc

Trust me. Seeing that hurts us as much as it hurts you. I dont know details on why they dont patch it but I would love to see it patched if it doesnt harm other things with the core of XBMC.

[giftie]

and how sliders could look like with a patched xbmc

Yea, sure.. Tease...

Though it is still up to the skin for how the slider looks.

Don't worry SlaveUnit, there is still hope for you to play with the new version..


The next updated will correct the case problem in slides.

[Nuka1195]

about sliders, i just meant the "15 sec" eg.

about themes and genres. are you planning on a folder naming convention?

PHP Code:

Genres
  |__Action
  |    |__movie1.mov
  |    |__movie2.mov
  |
  |__Comedy
        |__movie1.mov 


the problem with that is not flexible, what if you want a drector theme or something else.

[commoman81]

about sliders, i just meant the "15 sec" eg.

about themes and genres. are you planning on a folder naming convention?

PHP Code:

Genres
  |__Action
  |    |__movie1.mov
  |    |__movie2.mov
  |
  |__Comedy
        |__movie1.mov 


the problem with that is not flexible, what if you want a drector theme or something else.

movie theme would be perfect directors make different types of movies, just so that the slide shows match the type of movie u are watch whether its a horror, cartoon or whatever the slides would be that type.

[Nuka1195]

currently the shortcut choices are

based on: FP= feature presentation
FP title
FP genre
FP Studio
FP Writer
FP Director
FP Decade (70's, 80's...) based on FP Year

keywords:
"kids" - will probably work by limiting by mpaa also
"Adult"
"Movie Theater"
"Drive-In"

other:
any keyword you enter.



you can see a folder structure would not handle this.

[commoman81]

currently the shortcut choices are

based on: FP= feature presentation
FP title
FP genre
FP Studio
FP Writer
FP Director
FP Decade (70's, 80's...) based on FP Year

keywords:
"kids" - will probably work by limiting by mpaa also
"Adult"
"Movie Theater"
"Drive-In"

other:
any keyword you enter.



you can see a folder structure would not handle this.

looks good cant wait to try it out

[giftie]

about sliders, i just meant the "15 sec" eg.

Yea, that does look better then "15.00"

about themes and genres. are you planning on a folder naming convention?

PHP Code:

Genres
  |__Action
  |    |__movie1.mov
  |    |__movie2.mov
  |
  |__Comedy
        |__movie1.mov 


the problem with that is not flexible, what if you want a drector theme or something else.

I would not think a folder naming convention should be used except for maybe just to separate the two types of slides, Q&A and Trivia which the folders are ignored but not the contents(no changes from how the script runs now). Leaving the Theme in the slides.xml and letting the script pull that information would be better. There are so many different themes we could set up: Actor, Director, Genre, Production Year, IMDB rating.... Really too many to keep things simple(for slide makers) though I can see both Genre and Director as the main(maybe only themes) as Movies can have many genre's therefore match many different slides.

Maybe even have Genre pulled out of Themes(as a separate entity).

[Nuka1195]

so,

<slides rating="R" genre="Action / Adventure / Science Fiction" theme="George Lucas / Star Wars">

that sounds good to me also.

about the types of slides. it could be handled auto, just by determining if there is a question and a clue and/or answer.

[giftie]

about the types of slides. it could be handled auto, just by determining if there is a question and a clue and/or answer.

As it is, I just personally like keeping things visually organized - for the human element