IMDB PLOT ISSUE

[jaimwa]

hi there

i have a strange problem relating to imdb. i recently upgraded to the most recent version of xbmc and have everything working perfectly except the plot page for movie info on imdb. it selects the correct film etc but i can not get to the second page of the plot info. there is no button to move to the second page the way there used to be on the previous version of xbmc and i can not figure out how to do it. am i missing something really obvious?

thanks

j

[C-Quel]

its a skin issue... but i thought i was the only one bothered by it so never mentioned it.

the problem:

cast/plot are under the same button yet require different focus one for textarea(plot) one for listview(cast)

at the minute if you set onright/onleft to 50 it goes to textarea(plot) and set it to 4 it goes to listview(cast) you cannot have both selected i think this was overlooked by the devs.

i'm currently trying to seperate the buttons to solve my issue.

edit: also if you are on about the spin controls not been visible just try moving right from the button in question and pressing your select button or 'a' on controller you may find the spin control is there but the co-ords are wrong so you cannot see it.

[C-Quel]

if fact if any devs are reading this what are the chances of being able to use a command such as <onright> twice within one control? or even <onright>4,50</onright> thus enabling a dual function button the ability to focus on more than one area as in dialogvideoinfo id50 & id4 are never onscreen together so this would overcome the one or the other choice problem.

[jaimwa]

deanrparry, thanks for the info - i really thought i was going mad! could you let me know if you get a fix? will swapping skins fix it short term?

thanks

[C-Quel]

i know hdeetv does not have this problem as his buttons are laid out horizontally so the onleft,up,down,right work differently. the only ther option you have is take a look at dialogvideoinfo.xml pal or pal16x9 change the values to match the ones below.

this wil enable you to push right for plotinfo and left for cast not the best fix but it works.

at line 270

<control>
<description>tracks/review</description>
<type>button</type>
<id>5</id>
<posx>50</posx>
<posy>120</posy>
<label>206</label>
<onleft>50</onleft> <<<<
<onright>4</onright> <<<<
<onup>6</onup>
<ondown>8</ondown>
</control>

<control>
<description>play</description>
<type>button</type>
<id>8</id>
<posx>50</posx>
<posy>158</posy>
<label>208</label>
<onleft>50</onleft> <<<<
<onright>4</onright> <<<<
<onup>5</onup>
<ondown>6</ondown>
</control>

<control>
<description>refresh</description>
<type>button</type>
<id>6</id>
<posx>50</posx>
<posy>196</posy>
<label>184</label>
<onleft>50</onleft> <<<<
<onright>4</onright> <<<<
<onup>8</onup>
<ondown>5</ondown>
</control>

[jmarshall]

was unaware of this. please post a bug report on sf so that we can track it.

[jaimwa]

hi jmarshall, how do i get a bug report to post?

cheers

j

[jmarshall]

note that there is a fix for this issue in the skin files i believe:

make the <onright> of the list control point to the textbox control.
make the <onright> of the textbox control point to the listcontrol.
make the <onleft> of both controls the cast/plot button control.
make the <onright> of the cast/plot button control the listcontrol.

that should do the trick.

cheers,
jonathan

[C-Quel]

thanks jmarshall :fixed: and so easily i completely overlooked the simplicity of the co-ords needed.

thank you.

[jaimwa]

hi jonathan

sorry to pester you but please could you tell me where to make this change. i just had a go at it but can't find where to do it - i looked in the skins folder and the xml inside the project mayhem iii folder but nothing there....

thanks

jaim