SKINNING XLOBBY 3

[Colby]

I completely redid my skinning document. It is very current. I still have things to tweak, obviously, but there is gobs of new information in it that may be a help to us. If I forgot something obvious or I am incorrect about something please let me know.

"You never know how dumb you really are until you document what you know"

http://xlobby.incolby.com/Skinning_Xlobby_3/SkinningXlobby3.html

P.S. I need to update the link on the help page, but i dont have access. I also would like to host this on XLobby.com. Steven can i upload this website?

[bfauska]

Colby,
I haven't checked out the new skinning doc yet, but I am sure it is great. Let me be the first to thank you for doing something to help people learn this software and use it to it's full potential. I know that if it wasn't for your last skinning doc I would never have gotten XLobby working well enough to decide I needed to build an HTPC around it (maybe I SHOULDN'T be thanking you... it's an expensive hobby.)

Thanks and keep up the good work.

Brian

[jowaldo]

good job colby!

About uploading it to the main xlobby site and changing the link on the help page, only Steven has access to do that... Your best bet is just to email him the files and have him put it up.

[rika]

Colby once again, Fantastic work!!!!

Rika

[vicom]

Excellent !!! ... is it possible to have it in PDF?

[Colby]

Excellent !!! ... is it possible to have it in PDF?

Havent I done enough work? Maybe, or someone else has my permission to make it pdf for me, and I will host it with the web version.

[Myth]

I completely redid my skinning document.

Good Job Colby!

Just a couple of minor problems

There is an image missing from image.html

and Glossary.html is missing

Myth

[Colby]

Thanks,
Fixed image. I am redoing the Glossary so I never uploaded it. Thanks though.

[jowaldo]

I just tried converting it to PDF, but since its on a bunch of different pages, and trying to keep the left page frame out of every page just isn't working right...

[rembetis]

I just tried converting it to PDF, but since its on a bunch of different pages, and trying to keep the left page frame out of every page just isn't working right...

I managed to create a .pdf. A couple of the images were cut off but I don't believe it effects the documents intelligibility at all. For the time being, it is available here but I would appreciate it if someone with access to the Xlobby server would host it there. I don't have the bandwidth to serve it up forever. I'll add the Glossary when Colby uploads it.

FWIW, jowaldo, you can load individual frames by using View > Source on the frameset and finding the individual html files.

Oh, and nice job Colby!

[abobader]

Good job Colby!

[jowaldo]

I just tried converting it to PDF, but since its on a bunch of different pages, and trying to keep the left page frame out of every page just isn't working right...

I managed to create a .pdf. A couple of the images were cut off but I don't believe it effects the documents intelligibility at all. For the time being, it is available here but I would appreciate it if someone with access to the Xlobby server would host it there. I don't have the bandwidth to serve it up forever. I'll add the Glossary when Colby uploads it.

FWIW, jowaldo, you can load individual frames by using View > Source on the frameset and finding the individual html files.

Oh, and nice job Colby!

I would have done the view>source trick... but to be honest I was being too lazy to do that yesterday

Thanks for making it..

I put it up here (I put it in your folder Colby... hope you don't mind)

http://www.xlobby.com/files/colby/XlobbySkinning.pdf

[vicom]

Big ups to Colby...
Remebetis thanx for the PDF version

[FREDDYPD]

Colby,
I am just getting started here and this doc looks great! I can't wait to free up some time and start to customize xlobby to fit my needs!

[cooldog]

Colby,

Nice guide!

I feel guilty asking you this, because you've obviously *already* put in a huge amount of effort, but what the hell ... here goes:

Take a look at this thread: http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4600

My post in that thread is basically a plea for a "howto" for skinning. As an example, what I'd like to do is to add another catagory, "Videos" (as in camcorder) that functions almost identically to the "Movies" catagory. It would have its own database, and should be "importable", just like movies, where a jpeg found in the directory becomes "coverart", etc, etc, etc.

From looking at your new guide, I have pieces of the puzzle, but not all of it. I figured out that I can clone the "Movies" screen, but not how to put a "Videos" button on the "Menu" screen.

It's been a bit frustrating ....

If you're up for writing some "howtos", I'm up for proofreading, testing, and editing.

BTW, if you care about typos (my eye seems to naturally catch'em ... call me anal, I guess) I found a few in the new guide ... let me know if you want the info ...

Regards,
Paui