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English => Development => Scripts and Templates => Topic started by: Zacca on October 17, 2009, 06:21:58 pm

Title: Zskin
Post by: Zacca on October 17, 2009, 06:21:58 pm

This is my first skin for PVD
Is a small contribute for the big big work of nostra  ;D


unzip the files into the dir /skins/movies

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Title: Re: Zskin
Post by: nostra on October 18, 2009, 11:43:43 am

Thanks for upload your skin, Zacca.
It seems like you have spent some time working with skins. Maybe you have some suggestions of how to improve the skin system?

Title: Re: Zskin
Post by: Zacca on October 18, 2009, 05:18:29 pm

This skin is not all what i wanted to do....
I wanted to add, near the video codec, the audio codec and the number of channel of the first stream but i failed.

A good idea to make all graphically better is to associate a picture to the codec.

Some other idea is:
To use the fields more than once
To use all the fields justify left center right

For now it's all
Thanks to you  :D

Title: Re: Zskin
Post by: rick.ca on October 18, 2009, 06:05:59 pm

I like all Zacca's suggestions. But I think what's needed most at this point is some good documentation. Minor tweaking is not too difficult, but the learning curve for building a skin from scratch is rather steep. The fact so few users post skins or ask questions suggests not many are even trying.

As a starting point, I would suggest a brief overview of how the whole system works, plus a comprehensive listing of all the commands available, their syntax and where they can be used. Some instruction as to the necessary structure would be helpful as well. Not being a programmer, I'm easily confused about how to structure rows and columns to get the result I want.

With such technical documentation in place, users could help by providing instructions an examples for how to do specific things.

Title: Re: Zskin
Post by: schmendrik on January 11, 2010, 12:32:55 pm

Quote from: rick.ca on October 18, 2009, 06:05:59 pm

But I think what's needed most at this point is some good documentation.

hi all,
is there one? i want to make my own template but have no idea where to start though..

Title: Re: Zskin
Post by: nostra on January 11, 2010, 08:32:00 pm

Not yet. I am working on it.

Title: Re: Zskin
Post by: schmendrik on November 19, 2010, 03:58:32 am

any news on this?

Title: Re: Zskin
Post by: rick.ca on November 19, 2010, 09:09:44 am

It's here (http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?board=11.0;sort=subject).