Basic Home Editor for MediaPortal
Universal BasicHome Editor for MediaPortal
V0.1a

IMPORTANT : Before using, please backup BasicHome.xml for any skin that you're planning to test this with, as there is not currently an undo function built in.

Current Limitations
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- Only works on 'static' Basic Home screen skins (for example, will not work on Aeon or anything with that level of animation)
- Control Animation settings currently not supported (however shouldn't be too much of a problem if all that needs changing is layout)
- XML code view not formatted correctly, so difficult to read


Current Features V0.1a
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-Displays Currently Installed Skins
- Allows selected of skin to edit
- Displays Filepath of selected Skin
- Displays number of control Elements
- Displays control elements in table form for easy editing
- Displays complete XML (however not formatted as of yet)
- Allows user to edit values and save XML file[/list]

Planned Features
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- Allow User to change file path (Currently assumes default MP UserFiles Path)
- Colour picker / Image browsing capabilites (currently all manual text input editing)
- Possible 'drag and drop' layout interface
- Visual feedback on control placement/images/colours
- Full screen visual preview of Basic Home screen based on user settings
- Choice between XML Code view and Visual Feedback view (via tabs)
- Support for Animations
- Skin aspect detection (4:3, 16:9 etc)


Usage
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- Open
- Select Skin from dropdown Menu
- Make Changes to data
- Click Commit Changes to save fi