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Mythvideo gallery view
Howdy,

A question(s) that I have meant to ask for ages :

I use mythtvideo galley mode (blootube). At the moment the ".." (up one
level) is counted as a video in the count at top of screen. Is this
supposed to be the case?
Also, the default image is a ? mark and green "return" arrow in bottom
right. Should I bother coming up with a new graphic or is there one
already and the theme is just buggered?

Pic @ http://skynet.ie/~shabba/mythvideo.png

Thanks,

Damian O'Sullivan Tel: 087 2241456 damian@linux.ie
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Re: Mythvideo gallery view [ In reply to ]
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Damian O'Sullivan<shabba@skynet.ie> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> A question(s) that I have meant to ask for ages :
>
> I use mythtvideo galley mode (blootube). At the moment the ".." (up one
> level) is counted as a video in the count at top of screen. Is this supposed
> to be the case?

Whether it's supposed to be the case or not, it is definitely a
"known." :) Probably shouldn't be, though.

> Also, the default image is a ? mark and green "return" arrow in bottom
> right. Should I bother coming up with a new graphic or is there one already
> and the theme is just buggered?


The "?" is actually an image, it's there because the State->buttonitem
image uses it. Works great for a video with no image, not so well for
the upfolder state. I worked around this by replacing the default
buttonimage with a nice linear gradient. Attractive, and no ugly ?.

So, the long and short of it is you can remove that image by changing
the default filename for buttonimage to a null, or any other image you
like. Better to leave it *some* image, though, so that there is a
placeholder when there's no cover art.

>
> Pic @ http://skynet.ie/~shabba/mythvideo.png
>

Looking good.

Robert
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Re: Mythvideo gallery view [ In reply to ]
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Robert McNamara wrote:

> Whether it's supposed to be the case or not, it is definitely a
> "known." :) Probably shouldn't be, though.

"known" ? :-) I suppose no ticket then?

> The "?" is actually an image, it's there because the State->buttonitem
> image uses it. Works great for a video with no image, not so well for
> the upfolder state. I worked around this by replacing the default
> buttonimage with a nice linear gradient. Attractive, and no ugly ?.

I am curious as to why the .. does not use the folder.(jpg|gig|png) image
like a regular dir? This would work fine as all my dirs have images.


> So, the long and short of it is you can remove that image by changing
> the default filename for buttonimage to a null, or any other image you
> like. Better to leave it *some* image, though, so that there is a
> placeholder when there's no cover art.

Does the default image have that green arrow ? I would have though that
was only for backup type button?

>>
>> Pic @ http://skynet.ie/~shabba/mythvideo.png
>>
>
> Looking good.

Meeds your patches to be submitted :-). I don't wanna upgrade DB unless
its official as it is my production box.

Damian O'Sullivan Tel: 087 2241456 damian@linux.ie

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Re: Mythvideo gallery view [ In reply to ]
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Damian O'Sullivan<shabba@skynet.ie> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Robert McNamara wrote:
>
>> Whether it's supposed to be the case or not, it is definitely a
>> "known."  :)  Probably shouldn't be, though.
>
> "known" ? :-) I suppose no ticket then?

None that I know of-- I've spoken to Anduin about it before but was
never motivated enough to open a ticket. It's very likely a simple
fix, I'd guess.

>
>> The "?" is actually an image, it's there because the State->buttonitem
>> image uses it.  Works great for a video with no image, not so well for
>> the upfolder state.  I worked around this by replacing the default
>> buttonimage with a nice linear gradient.  Attractive, and no ugly ?.
>
> I am curious as to why the .. does not use the folder.(jpg|gig|png) image
> like a regular dir? This would work fine as all my dirs have images.
>

This is probably a limitation of the "folder" hunt code. I've
identified a few other weaknesses in it that I'd like to see fixed
too, but most of them involve getting MythVideo/SG directory
preferences working.

>
>> So, the long and short of it is you can remove that image by changing
>> the default filename for buttonimage to a null, or any other image you
>> like.  Better to leave it *some* image, though, so that there is a
>> placeholder when there's no cover art.
>
> Does the default image have that green arrow ? I would have though that was
> only for backup type button?
>

The green arrow should be from the "upfolder" state in the buttonlist.
(working from memory)

>>>
>>> Pic @ http://skynet.ie/~shabba/mythvideo.png
>>>
>>
>> Looking good.
>
> Meeds your patches to be submitted :-). I don't wanna upgrade DB unless its
> official as it is my production box.

From your lips to God's mouth. ;) Hopefully in the drive towards .22
in the near future the MythVideo stuff will make it in. I'm led to
believe it will.

Robert.
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Re: Mythvideo gallery view [ In reply to ]
> > I am curious as to why the .. does not use the folder.(jpg|gig|png) image
> > like a regular dir? This would work fine as all my dirs have images.
> >
>
> This is probably a limitation of the "folder" hunt code. I've
> identified a few other weaknesses in it that I'd like to see fixed
> too, but most of them involve getting MythVideo/SG directory
> preferences working.


Would you want it to display the folder.png from the current folder or from the one above?


IE. If I'm in /video/MyNameIsEarl/Season3 should it show

/video/MyNameIsEarl/folder.jpg or /video/MyNameIsEarl/Season3/folder.jpg ?

On one hand I think it should show the one above but it would be
nice to see the current folders icon as well somewhere even if it's just
an element a themer can choose to display or not.




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Re: Mythvideo gallery view [ In reply to ]
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Greg Estabrooks wrote:
> Would you want it to display the folder.png from the current folder or from the one above?
>
>
> IE. If I'm in /video/MyNameIsEarl/Season3 should it show
>
> /video/MyNameIsEarl/folder.jpg or /video/MyNameIsEarl/Season3/folder.jpg ?
>
> On one hand I think it should show the one above but it would be
> nice to see the current folders icon as well somewhere even if it's just
> an element a themer can choose to display or not.
>

The one above I guess but I think an up arrow would be fine. I just tried
deleting all refs to preview.png (the ? image) from my themes and it is
still there. I guess the line

./libs/libmythui/themeinfo.cpp: m_previewpath =
m_theme->absoluteFilePath() + "/preview.jpg";

might be responsible.. Wonder why we have a hard coded value in the code.
I guess preview.jpg is a special case.

Damian O'Sullivan Tel: 087 2241456 damian@linux.ie

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Re: Mythvideo gallery view [ In reply to ]
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Damian O'Sullivan wrote:
> ./libs/libmythui/themeinfo.cpp: m_previewpath =
> m_theme->absoluteFilePath() + "/preview.jpg";
>
> might be responsible.. Wonder why we have a hard coded value in the code. I
> guess preview.jpg is a special case.
>


Scratch that. It is just a preview image of theme for settings screen..
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