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katleeh:
Hello all,

I'm trying to either modify one of the other skins that are already there or make my own to help catalog my anime collection. In trying to make the changes I wanted things don't seem to be going correctly so I have some questions on just what can be done with the skins and information display for the movies/series.

1) I want to display a banner for the entire series/movie at the top of the information section as well as displaying posters and screenshots/fanart in another tab, but so far I haven't been able to get a banner to display properly as it keeps shrinking in size whenever I try and use the cdscan item. So what can I do here? If i use the screenshot section, it displays a list and I want to be able to have other fanart/screenshots that won't display with the banner.

2) Is there anyway to display information about the various episodes in the main information page? Information such as file size, length, etc?

3) What properties can be set/changed in the skins for display purposes? I know its based on XML but how limiting is what can be done there?

Thanks to anyone who can provide input here.

- KatLeeH

nostra:
A Skins manual can be found here: http://www.videodb.info/help/hlp_skins.html

Unfortunately you can't really do what you are asking for at the current skin engine stage, but it will certainly be possible in later versions (at least the fan art thing).

katleeh:
I've looked at the skins help... its somewhat helpful but not completely. For instance, what is the relationship for the TV Series episodes between the main skin page and the episode skin pages? What data can be called there and how? I'm trying to determine how the database works in relation to the skinz and the way they display information from the database.

- KatLeeH

rick.ca:
A skin is a skin. There is no "main" skin and "episode" skin. The same skin determines what appears in the information pane, whether the selected record is a movie, series or episode. So to answer your original questions...


* To display an image, it has to be placed in one of the existing image containers. The best choice for that is probably cdcover. That could be placed in an appropriate location—like at the top in a full-width column. The image can the be set at an appropriate fixed width, or to resize to fit the width available (autosize=true and stretch=true).


* No. It can only display information about the item selected in the list. Furthermore, you have to be creative in designing a skin that will work for any type of record (movie, series or episode). It's not so difficult considering fields can be set to not appear at all if empty. It's more challenging if you want to do something like display a poster for movies, but a banner for series and episodes.


* The only answer to such a general question is "read the manual." For practical purposes, it's probably better to try sample skins, see how they're coded, and then look to the manual for explanations of specific coding.

rick.ca:

--- Quote from: rick.ca on October 20, 2010, 03:12:15 am ---The image can the be set at an appropriate fixed width, or to resize to fit the width available (autosize=true and stretch=true).
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It seems these parameters only work for posters. Come to think of it, this must be why I gave up on including banners in my skin. If cdcover worked the same as poster, it would be possible to have a section at the top of the skin that would show a full-width banner—but only if one existed in cdcover. :-\

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