Re: [Freevo-devel] tivoguide and tvguide plugin patch

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 --- jlaska <jl...@nc...> escreveu: 
> > And the "selected" variations, so if one want a 3d looking, the
> borders
> > could follow the background to give the intended look.
> > 
> > The guide could be formed using:
> > 
> > 1-----.------------------------2   
> 1------------------------------2
> > | CH1 | PROGAM 1               |    | 06:00 - PRG_CH3_1           
> |
> > }=====+========================{    | 07:00 - PRG_CH3_2           
> | 
> > | CH2 | PROGRAM 2              |    | 08:00 - PRG_CH3_3           
> |
> > }=====+========================7----9 09:00 - PRG_CH3_4           
> |
> > | CH3 | PROGRAM 3                     10:00 - PRG_CH3_5           
> |
> > }=====+========================8----A 11:00 - PRG_CH3_6           
> |
> > | CH4 | PROGRAM 4              |    | ...                         
> |
> > }=====+========================{    |                             
> |
> > |...  | ...                    |    |                             
> |
> > 3-----'------------------------4   
> 3------------------------------4
> 
> I think that's great, it's exactly what I had in mind for the
> *tivo*guide plugin.  I'm going to hold of of course until that
> support
> becomes available in the skin engine.  
> 
> As far as the images you drew above, I think we can condense the # of
> images slightly.  You need the 4 corners of a box, then a horizontal,
> and a vertical...and I think that's it (I could be wrong).  Some of
> the
> others are just variants of existing images.
> 
>    7 == 3
>    8 == 1
>    9 == 4
>    A == 2

No, you can't. It's not general.

Imagine you want a guide where 3D appearance or even cells with
different background/color from the screen background. 
   To make my explanation easy to understand, imagine each image (3 and
7) as 4 quarters, they should be colored:

3)                 7)
.-------.         .-------.
|   |###|         |###|   |
|---+---|         |---+---|
|   |   |         |   |   |
'-------'         '-------'

You can make things worse and imagine one want to simulate shadow
between two cells, ...


> Perhaps better to start small, the more images there are the more
> that need maintaining when a skin changes.

Skin authors could have images set like you said, but if one would
write the code, he should write it general enough.

 
> Who's the skin expert on the list?  Perhaps we can see what is needed
> and come up with a few patches.

Dischi, Aubin, Krister and I did most of skin code.
   I refactored the TV Guide (believe me, it was 1D before! Just like
other menus) and created the 3-View Areas Menu (Info, View and Listing)
concept together with Krister.
   Then, dischi make it general enough to use in every menu.
   I don't remember who, but I think it was aubin that wrote the 2D
menu, used in Image Menu, for example... I did some code to it too, but
I don't remember it I did the first commit.

   However due some time/hw/... problems I stopped coding for a while,
right before making everything a plugin and sometimes I find myself
quite lost to/how to use skin in other places, etc.   


Gustavo

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