Topic: My First Theater View Skin... MetroX Theatre (Read 44920 times)

marko · « **Reply #50 on:** September 05, 2013, 10:30:58 am »

I would help road test this too. Looks tidy and elegant, informative, but not too 'busy'. Interesting.

sirganty · « **Reply #51 on:** September 11, 2013, 08:35:51 am »

Sorry guys, everything's been a bit hectic so i've not looked at it for weeks

work got crazy
had a drinking related accident which left me with pins holding my wrist together
then took the kids away on vacation

I'm back and refreshed, and get my arm back in a weeks time, so should be pretty soon after that!

InflatableMouse · « **Reply #52 on:** September 12, 2013, 12:27:55 am »

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you make a full recovery.

Micromecca · « **Reply #53 on:** September 19, 2013, 05:33:46 am »

Sirganty - this looks really promising, thanks for putting the time in to show what is actually possible with a theater view.

William-NM · « **Reply #54 on:** September 20, 2013, 09:51:26 pm »

Just a Thank You for MetroX - really appreciating it. MC:UX looks like it will be fantastic, too. Hope you get 100% healed up and thanks again for putting the energy into making this awesome player even cooler.

kurushi · « **Reply #55 on:** October 15, 2013, 12:37:39 pm »

Release date?

InflatableMouse · « **Reply #56 on:** October 30, 2013, 11:31:50 am »

Hows it coming Sirganty? I'm getting itchy. Ready for testers yet?

SpeedD408 · « **Reply #57 on:** December 05, 2013, 09:02:37 am »

Any chance we can get a beta version for a Christmas present?

Daveyravey · « **Reply #58 on:** January 18, 2014, 03:06:07 am »

any news on this new skin? looks fantastic

Daveyravey · « **Reply #59 on:** February 15, 2014, 10:05:08 am »

Since build 108 this skin causes crashes and hangs on my set up. Andy ideas why this may be?

_mulder · « **Reply #60 on:** February 21, 2014, 05:06:04 pm »

I have had this happen to me as well. And the animated background video does not work anymore with the latest version of MC

Edit: oops, I guess it got fixed in the latest version. Will have to check

John_82 · « **Reply #61 on:** April 08, 2014, 04:56:24 pm »

Any progress on MC:UX or is it still a pipedream ?

Could see this transforming theatre view.

InflatableMouse · « **Reply #62 on:** August 11, 2014, 01:54:32 am »

The second one to go MIA ... ?

MrHaugen · « **Reply #63 on:** August 12, 2014, 02:05:00 am »

That MC:UX skin sure looks good! Looking forward to testing it in action. I hope stuff like this will be natively possible in MC one day.

sirganty · « **Reply #64 on:** August 29, 2014, 03:39:56 pm »

Sorry guys,

Have been AWOL for a good while

Right, bad news...
Runtime querying performance (MCWS, last.fm, tmdb, TheTVDB) was so bad (making the theatre view UI really unresponsive) that I decided the only way I could make mc:ux work was to have a 'background' process constantly creating/saving images on a timer in the background, and leave the only 'live' images based on playing now info.
Sort of worked, but I didn't like the fact my service was effectively building loads of stuff in the bg, which ultimately would never even be seen, as it would be created and overwritten before anyone ever saw it.

I also got frustrated with the fact I could never target every 'location' the way I wanted...
For those who haven't tried, you use a 'location' variable to determine what to display on a given page, but certain 'locations' are repeated within the traversal hierarchy, but in fact the true path is different, and so the same 'location' logic displays images etc I didn't want displayed in that scenario.

Anyway, it all annoyed me enough I stopped temporarily to see if I could code a 'complete' theatre view interface using nothing but MCWS.
This was going really well... Looking beautiful, data enriched, nice user interaction, just felt good.... Until I hit a brick wall ensuring 'focus' changed correctly.
Effectively I wanted MC to run in the background all the time... except when I kicked off a video.
Then I wanted to be able to start playback in display mode until the video stopped (manually or natural end) and then MC back to bg and get focus back.
Almost impossible

So I've now given up on that too.

Long story short, I've given up with theatre view.
I've spent my spare time over the last 3 weeks learning objective-c
I have an alpha, and will be releasing a jremote competitor before I grow old and grey

Sorry guys

John_82 · « **Reply #65 on:** August 29, 2014, 04:28:13 pm »

Sorry to see this fail to come to fruition, but it's impressive you stuck with it that long!

I know how you feel after wasting countless hours on things like this. Hopefully J River will wake up one day and take theatre view out of the dark ages one way or another.

Sesam · « **Reply #66 on:** August 29, 2014, 05:31:23 pm »

Bad news indeed

. But yea I guess there is a reason why we get so few third party Theater View skins. I briefly looked into skinning Theater View myself and quickly gave up, because it appeared poorly documented and complicated, and most importantly very limited in what you can actually do. I have hoped that skinning Theater View would get more advanced, and that we would get more professionally made standard skins for it already included. While MC has gotten lots of other features, almost nothing in Theater View appears to have changed with recent versions.

JimH · « **Reply #67 on:** August 29, 2014, 06:49:58 pm »

You may have posted about it, but we need a few simple requests. We would also like Theater View skinning to be easier.

MrHaugen · « **Reply #68 on:** September 03, 2014, 12:16:26 am »

Yes. Please give some suggestions for improvements. Perhaps in a dedicated thread. It's time we get a bit more options and flexibility in TV. We really need that sort of feedback from people who know how to skin. I've tried, but I know to little about it to give concrete suggestions.

These kind of things should be possible in TV. At least I hope so, one day...

InsaneRC · « **Reply #69 on:** September 06, 2014, 09:29:07 am »

Quote from: MrHaugen on September 03, 2014, 12:16:26 am

Yes. Please give some suggestions for improvements. Perhaps in a dedicated thread. It's time we get a bit more options and flexibility in TV. We really need that sort of feedback from people who know how to skin. I've tried, but I know to little about it to give concrete suggestions.

These kind of things should be possible in TV. At least I hope so, one day...

+1
exactly what he said. We need more room to show all that customization of JRiver in Theater View. I'm no programmer or artist and barely understand customizing. I have played around with Theater View and made my own personal clone of some other not name skin. Its hard to list things when I don't understand exactly what can be done. Maybe a list of what we'd like? Then you can see if it's possible?

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