xDatabase

[CiXel]

In the quest for a flat database option, doing a custom search for ALL works about 98% of the way. The only real issue is that since an xdb.all event gets applied to folder as well they show up too, but that's not you Thank you for re-adding the xdb.all option. I'm getting closer to fleshing this out.

[S Pittaway]

try the "use type" option, you can then search for xdb.all == "movie" (if you are talking about the movie db)

[CiXel]

try the "use type" option, you can then search for xdb.all == "movie" (if you are talking about the movie db)

Hmm, I don't understand what you are suggesting? Could you elaborate a little?

[S Pittaway]

i was too lazy to go back a page and look what i called it anyway,

added ini file option - General - Add All Entry Value, if this is blank it xdb.all is set to the "type" field, if not this text is used.

if you leave it blank it will copy the type field, for the movie database thie is either movie or folder depending on if its a folder or not.

[CiXel]

Ah yes, the 'type' field works great. It denotes folders as 'folder' and movies as 'movie'.
xDatabase does it again.

So close...
Now the LAST step in this equation is getting all of the titles to appear in one single alphabetical list As it stands right now, it displays a-z on the the first folder 's items then a-z on the second folder's. I'd like it to display as if you ran a sorttitle filter, like when you open the search screen. But this will still be usable (WAF)

Just think, after all this I get to try to make Theatertek run via xLobby's USBUIRT plugin... Fun!

[S Pittaway]

i had a play with reflections -

It works but the code is a bit stinky, can anyone help? please have a nosy at http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6336&p=45243#p45243

[S Pittaway]

Updated

4 Jun 2008 - Added support for star images for imdb ratings and user ratings
4 Jun 2008 - Added support for image reflections


Star Images

To use the star images you need to set this in the ini file

[Settings]
Format Star Image = image directory\filename*.ext

Where image directory is the path to the star images, filename is the common name and * ranges from 1 to 100.

For example you could have a collection of star images like this C:\Stars\stars-1.png .. C:\Stars\stars-10.png .. C:\Stars\stars-100.png and you would set the ini file entry to be Format Star Image = C:\Stars\stars-*.png

CiXel has made up some star images that you can use, if you are a pay-lobby user you can find them in the my xlobby section under add on downloads.



Refections

Reflections are controlled via two entries in the inifile -

[b]xCache - Thumb Reflectivity = double[\b]
This controls the reflectivity of the shadow image and can vary from 0 to 1.
If it is 0 the no reflection is added, If it is 1 all of the image will be reflected.
I think a good value is 0.33

[b]xCache - Thumb Reflectivity Blend Color = text[\b]
This determines the type of reflection that is generated.
If it is left blank (or set to TRANSPARENT) a "real" reflection is added that can be over-layed on another background image - i.e. its a transparent reflection. To do this the file type must be set to png!
Transparent reflections seem to seriously slow down xlobby and they burn up memory really quickly. It may even cause memory errors if you have a large amount of coverart...
If it is set to a solid colour i will simply fade the reflection into that colour. This means you can use jpgs which saves a lot of memory!
If you screen is using a solid background go for the solid type - its quicker to draw and uses a lot less memory - i guess this is why the apple uses a black background

Here is an example of a solid refection -

Here is a of a transparent one (like i said they tend to be quite big, this is the only one i could find less than a 1 MB )-

[CiXel]

Wow-
That transparent one is REALLY transparent

On a side note. Nice work. It'll be interesting to try this out over the weekend. xDatabase does it again.

[Marbles_00]

VERY indeed. Looking forward to incorporating this...I just have to get off my keester, and get back into skinning.

[S Pittaway]

The pngs with transparency tend to be quite big i couldent see one that was less then the 1Mb upload limit, i found one last night

Its usable but i have had to chose my cover sizes carefully to keep xlobby from crashing (and thats on a xp system with 4Gb of mem (i know xlobby can only access 2Gb but still...):))


Hopefully Wes will notice this and add reflections to the category offset/rotate funtionallity (category>photo>cover>-5>0.55 etc)

[CiXel]

Yeah, it's definitely a small visual thing that can add a lot of 'slickness' to a skin.

[scottw]

Ok I must be doing something wrong. I am trying to setup the stars and cannot get it to show anything but 0 stars.

I am starting off with using xAnt so my movies Db shows a list of movies and the appropriate tags, one being "rating" with for example 51/10 (which I think is supposed to be 51 out of 100). I setup the ini by adding:

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[Settings]
Format Star Image = c:\xlobby\stars\Stars5-*.png

[movies]
IMDB - Generate stars  = true


I run a xDatabase "database add extra tags" with a variable of "movies". I get a new tag added called "xdb.imdb.star.rating.image" with a value of "c:\xlobby\stars\Stars5-0.png, it is Stars5-0.png for all movies no matter what the rating is.

What am I missing???

[S Pittaway]

ok, this will only work on two fields.

one is the user rating added by this plugin it is called xdb.rating, this is a simple 5 character rating (the plugin has functions to toggle/set etc).

the other is the imdb user rating which has a format of 0.0-10.0 / 10.0. If the spider is run against imdb it is normally pulled across and saved in a tag called imdb_rating.

A tag called rating is normally used to store the film classification (u, pg, 15 etc).

If you dont have a imdb_rating tag it will use a rating of 0.0 (seems fair enuff) and so set it to a stars5-0.png image.

If you have a rating tag name and its format i can easily add in to the plugin (as long as it does not conflict with any of the fields i use )

[Rusty]

Ok here is what I have so far in the ini file.

[movies]
xCache - Thumbs Reflectivity = .33
xCache - Thumbs Reflectivity Blend Color = TRANSPARENT
xCache - Thumbs Cache Type (jpg/png ect) = png
xCache - Thumb Cache Type (jpg/png ect) = png

// Draw the main image to oGraphic

// Copy the bottom of the main image to RGraphic / RImage

//Now flip it
RImage.RotateFlip(RotateFlipType.RotateNoneFlipY);

// Finish the reflection using a gradiend brush
LinearGradientBrush brush = new LinearGradientBrush(PictureRectangle, Color.FromArgb(200, Color.Black), Color.FromArgb(255, Color.Black), 90, false);
RGraphic.FillRectangle(brush, PictureRectangle);

//Draw the reflection on the main image
SrcRectangle = new Rectangle(0, 0, RImage.Width, RImage.Height);
PictureRectangle = new Rectangle(0, Height, Width, RHeight);
oGraphic.DrawImage(RImage, PictureRectangle, SrcRectangle, GraphicsUnit.Pixel);

Also have a command to xcashe_update when I "goto movies".

It is creating the images to the folder and converting them to PNGs. But it is still not creating the reflections. What am I missing? It looks good what you have going on. Thanks.

[S Pittaway]

somethings got confused there because you have some c# code in it

upload the xdatabase.ini file and i will have a quick look.


btw, you only need to call "xcache update" when you add new items to the database, dont call it everytime you enter!

call it once - let it run - it may take a while to generate all of the covers...

when its done the new coverart should show up.