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ChoccyHobNob
2008-05-10, 23:23
Still WiP But I thought I'd show my current progress to see if anyone but me is interested in this...

http://idisk.mac.com/choccyhobnob-Public/osxbmcb.jpg

The Home screen still needs tweaking.
Dialogs, Context Menus, OSK, OSD, File Manager and Settings are all still unthemed but I'm getting there :grin:

And I have a question.

From the confines of a theme is it possible to change the colours of the fonts, a lot of this is darker than I would like because the fonts are all white and wouldn't be clear otherwise. Is it possible to make them all black?
IllumiNaughty
2008-05-11, 00:06
I don't think you can change the font color via a theme.
Would be cool of it was made to where if 'color.xml' exists in a xpr then it would default to that, that way you don't have to download the font color separately.
Look at the blue or red themes/font colors for PM3 to see the way you are going to have to make it.

Oh yeah,
Awesome theme, good to see more themes for PM3.
ChoccyHobNob
2008-05-11, 00:30
I just found it, you can :grin: put a file called <themename>.xml in the /colors dir

Note to self... read the wiki, read the wiki, read the wiki ..sigh..
Killarny
2008-05-11, 00:31
As far as I know, when a theme is selected, if there is a corresponding color.xml with the same name as the theme, it'll be automatically selected..

When the user selects a theme, XBMC will automatically also select the themes default color set, based on the &lt;themename&gt;.xml file located in the colors/ folder.
http://xbmc.org/development/skinning/

Edit: cool, you found it :)
UND3R ACHI3V3R
2008-05-11, 04:34
Please release this!
platanito21
2008-05-11, 05:15
Looks really nice, though i might try one with black instead of grey since Apple seems to be using black a lot more in their GUI these days (its usually semi-translucent too but I don't know if you could make something like that happen). Anyway, great job. when do you think it'll be ready for downloading???
Jezz_X
2008-05-11, 05:23
I have to say very nice and its amazing how you have managed to make it look so different yet good at the same time
NineT9mustang
2008-05-11, 08:00
Amazing man, very impressive...I was waiting when someone was going to come out with a good PM3 theme...and you just came out of no where with a BAM :)

good job :)
jmarshall
2008-05-11, 10:00
Indeed - this is extremely nicely done. It almost looks like a different skin altogether.

Well done!
Kuhl
2008-05-11, 22:20
I'd like to see the giant XBMC scaled down. I think it'd help with the look, Other than that I think its great. i'm always a fan of these nice clean skins.
ChoccyHobNob
2008-05-11, 22:24
Thank you for the kind comments everybody, that spurred me into finishing this today instead of enjoying the sunshine, every texture that I had already done had to be redone because other people would be seeing it now :laugh:

I tried to upload this to blackmarket but they have a 5MB file limit and the zip is 8.8MB. I've emailed the site admins to ask if they can raise the limit for me.

In the mean time, here are a few more screenshots to whet your appitite, shame I can't edit my posts or I'd just have updated the first post. ah well :grin:

http://idisk.mac.com/choccyhobnob-Public/osxpmiiiss.jpg
ChoccyHobNob
2008-05-11, 22:48
OK I can't wait for blackmarket, You can download this from here (http://idisk.mac.com/choccyhobnob-Public/OSXPMIII.zip) :grin:
MikeBeecham
2008-05-12, 12:15
Excellent work mate...this really does look like a different skin, whilst keeping the PM3 elements in place.
aart
2008-05-12, 13:25
totally fresh, i love it!
WeirdH
2008-05-12, 20:06
Looks great! Anyone know how to change font color, the standard white kinda blends in with this new background on my CRT tv.
WeirdH
2008-05-12, 20:38
D'oh!

Never mind, I didn't see the included .xml at first.. :sniffle:
So now with full conviction: looks great! :laugh:
Soner
2008-05-13, 23:24
Look like really good, but how do you install it ?
I put it in my Skin directory, the name appears in the options of XBMC but i can't choose it !
Help please
IllumiNaughty
2008-05-13, 23:48
It's a theme, they go in the skins 'media' folder.
for instance...
xbmc/skins/Project Mayhem III/media/OSXTHEME.xpr

Then you select the theme in the settings.
Soner
2008-05-13, 23:56
Ok thank you very much.
ChoccyHobNob
2008-05-14, 02:40
I just noticed a bug in my theme. Actually IMHO it's a bug in the PMIII skin but that's neither here nor there :lol:

In the scraper settings PMIII is using dialog-panel.png for the background instead of dialog-panel2.png (which given the size of the dialog I think it should be using) this means that in my theme you get this... :sad:

http://idisk.mac.com/choccyhobnob-Public/3.jpg

The radio buttons are almost impossible to see and the background is distorted so the title bar overlaps the body of the dialog. Caveat emptor and all that!
ChoccyHobNob
2008-05-14, 02:46
Moving on from this theme, I've started messing around with a few simple mods to the skin (we've all got to start somewhere, right?). Now if you are in file mode, you get this main screen...

http://idisk.mac.com/choccyhobnob-Public/1.jpg

But if you use library mode, you get this...

http://idisk.mac.com/choccyhobnob-Public/2.jpg

I have much bigger things planned but I'm not showing anything that is just a photoshop mockup, I'll wait until i can grab a real screenshot of it working. I'm just really enjoying playing with the skinning engine and learning all the available xml.
Mickey
2008-05-22, 23:29
Wonderful! Congratulations, I am fan :)

BTW, how to activate the "Library Mode" ?
Daggerx
2008-05-26, 18:48
Just installed this. Sweet!!!

Thank you.
Blackbolt
2008-05-29, 20:41
Switched to this from MC360, ;D
ChoccyHobNob
2008-05-30, 03:26
Switched to this from MC360, ;D

You _are_ joking aren't you!
Martomo
2008-05-30, 13:34
Love your theme Choccy, glad to announce it's available on XBMC Black Market (only a little bit late).
ChoccyHobNob
2008-05-30, 20:44
Awesome! thanks Martomo, does this mean there is a new version of your script that handles the color.xml file now?
Martomo
2008-05-31, 01:16
Awesome! thanks Martomo, does this mean there is a new version of your script that handles the color.xml file now?
It's not available yet, but we have the code laying around for handling color XML files, currently we've disabled the feed for the Theme Browser in Project Mayhem III, seeing it crashes on startup, but you can still download it through the site.

I hope to release it soon, also with a fix for Project Mayhem III and more.