Graphics for SageMC (Glassy Icons, etc.)

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by technazz

Since we are upgrading our FX on SageMC.. I was looking closely at the Time Bar.. I think it needs a facelift.. anybody agree?

Technazz

I can take a look at it, but I'm pretty sure that the time bar uses internal shape widgets rather than external graphics. If this is the case, it would have to be reprogrammed before any cosmetic surgery could be applied.

Aloha,
Mike

[MeInMaui]

For anyone who is having trouble with the genre icons not showing up:

Open your sage.properties file (or sageclient.properties if you are using the service) and make sure the path in the following property line is correct.

mlbdude/weather_image_root=\\STVs\\SageTV3\\SageMCE

Mine was pointing to OriginalV2 instead of SageTV3. Once I made the change, the genre icons showed up properly. Don't forget to shut down SageTV first before editing the properties file so that any changes you make will stick.

Just a bit of background info: The weather_image_root property is used to set the rootPath attribute in the STV. This is apparently used in several places. So if it is incorrect, it could cause a number of problems. Hope this helps!

Aloha,
Mike

[geogecko]

I just tried these, and they don't seem to appear on my system (Movies, Genres, correct?).

I checked the property weather_image_root, and it appears to be pointing to the correct location.

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by geogecko

I just tried these, and they don't seem to appear on my system (Movies, Genres, correct?).

I checked the property weather_image_root, and it appears to be pointing to the correct location.

Did you ever see the original included genre icons show up in the 'My Videos' screen? All these problems seem really strange. I think kricker is having problems seeing the showicons and there are several cases of the genre icons not showing up. I have to wonder if there are some other leftover property settings from old SageMC installations that are messing things up. One thing you could try is temporarily rename your sage.properties file (or sageclient.properties, you know the drill) and let sage generate a new one. Then load SageMC v6.10 and see what happens. As long as you keep your backup properties file you can always get back to where you started. It might be worth a try.

Aloha,
Mike

[MeInMaui]

Hi All,

The genre icon set has been updated to v0.2.
In this version I have added 5 more genres (Crime, Documentary, Film-Noir, Mystery, and War) to the set for a total of 21 genres. Enjoy!

Aloha,
Mike

[Kirby]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

Did you ever see the original included genre icons show up in the 'My Videos' screen? All these problems seem really strange. I think kricker is having problems seeing the showicons and there are several cases of the genre icons not showing up. I have to wonder if there are some other leftover property settings from old SageMC installations that are messing things up. One thing you could try is temporarily rename your sage.properties file (or sageclient.properties, you know the drill) and let sage generate a new one. Then load SageMC v6.10 and see what happens. As long as you keep your backup properties file you can always get back to where you started. It might be worth a try.

Aloha,
Mike

Mine still dont work. Checked that one entry you suggested but it was ok. I really couldnt have left over MC entries though, could I, since I started with a clean install of 5.10, then 6.10 on top of that without ever runing Sage with 5.10.

I also tried erasing the properties files and re-generate them. No luck there.

And just for the record, several beers last night didnt help either!

[geogecko]

Yes, I was one of the others that totally rebuilt their system on 6.10. Last week, I totally uninstalled everything, deleting the sagetv directory as well. I ran the default STV, set everything up, then switched to 6.10.

I haven't checked in My Videos yet...let me check.

Hmm, when I do by Genre, in My Videos, I don't get any, just a folder that says Unassigned...

[Kirby]

Thats how mine were. I went into that folder and updated some via IMDB, and now have about 9-10 genres, but those still list the folder icon and not the awesome graphics by Mike.

[geogecko]

LOL, I just did that, and now I have these huge squares, with Mikes little icon bar genre at the top. Cool.

Not sure that's how it's supposed to look...but?

Still don't show up in My TV...Movies.

[Kirby]

You can change it on the left from Folder view to List view if you want. But i'm really mifted that I cant get these to work!

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by geogecko

LOL, I just did that, and now I have these huge squares, with Mikes little icon bar genre at the top. Cool.

Not sure that's how it's supposed to look...but?

Still don't show up in My TV...Movies.

Glad to hear you got them working! The icons were definitely made with the list view in mind. And I think the 'My Videos' section is the only place that is currently set up to use the genre icons.

Originally Posted by Kirby

But i'm really mifted that I cant get these to work!

I'm at a loss. Maybe you need to fly out here with your rig so we can both apply beers to the problem?

Aloha,
Mike

[Kirby]

Ugh I havent a clue on this still.. I want my genre icons, and I want them now!! Two nights of trying the beer method have failed miserably!

Anyone with a working genre icon setup care to share the props file, or look at mine? I'm just wondering why I get nothing, not the original icons, not Mikes, in folder view or list view, in either My Videos or My TV/Movies. Argh!

*edit* for anyone that has working genre icons, do you also have logging enabled? if so, maybe could you look in your log file and see if there is any reference to genre icons at all? I didnt notice any in mine, but did see references to folder.jpg or something similar, but nothing specific to the GenreIcons folder, or the images inside it.

[MeInMaui]

Kirby,

Here is a snippet from my sagetvclient_0.txt log file.

Fri 9/1 17:43:10.533 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\GenreIcons\Action.png
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.543 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.windows.WImage@1dfc95e
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.544 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.554 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=524 h=77
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.555 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\GenreIcons\Adventure.png
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.566 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.windows.WImage@1bcf620
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.567 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.581 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=524 h=77
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.581 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\GenreIcons\Animation.png
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.592 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.windows.WImage@1e28608
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.593 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.603 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=524 h=77
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.604 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\GenreIcons\Anime.png
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.615 Received command of:NOOP from Socket[addr=/127.0.0.1,port=42024,localport=1066]
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.616 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.windows.WImage@7a7686
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.617 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.628 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=524 h=77
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.629 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\GenreIcons\Comedy.png
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.641 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.windows.WImage@37bf73
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.642 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Fri 9/1 17:43:10.653 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=524 h=77

I don't know if this helps at all, but there you have it.

Aloha,
Mike

[Kirby]

well it tells me that for whatever reason, my systems arent even trying to load the images! Look at my log data:

Sun 9/3 16:04:45.986 Received command of:NOOP from Socket[addr=/192.168.1.6,port=42024,localport=2108]
Sun 9/3 16:04:48.619 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\hover_my videos.png
Sun 9/3 16:04:48.637 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@133badd
Sun 9/3 16:04:48.638 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:48.643 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=162 h=225
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.010 setUI(sage.bz@1f323bd[Video Library Folder View]) histIdx=1 uiHistory=[sage.bz@12bed82[Main Menu], sage.bz@1f323bd[Video Library Folder View]]
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.050 setUI(sage.bz@1aabda3[Video Library Folder View]) histIdx=1 uiHistory=[sage.bz@12bed82[Main Menu], sage.bz@1aabda3[Video Library Folder View]]
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.261 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\menu_list_focus.png
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.258 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@1b04310
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.258 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.274 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=420 h=77
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.274 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\arrow_round_right_nofocus.png
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.274 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@1d5176d
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.274 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.274 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=16 h=16
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.368 Rendered new font to cache font=java.awt.Font[family=Arial,name=Arial,style=bold,size=26] numGlyphs=1674 numCachedGlyphs=238 numImages=2
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.368 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.383 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=256 h=256
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.383 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\menu_list_nofocus.png
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.383 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@f801c4
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.383 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.388 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=420 h=75
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.516 Rendered new font to cache font=java.awt.Font[family=Arial,name=Arial,style=bold,size=19] numGlyphs=1674 numCachedGlyphs=382 numImages=2
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.516 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.524 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=256 h=256
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.524 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\videos_logo.png
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.527 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@1a28182
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.527 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.531 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=276 h=70
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.531 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\list_sub_nofocus.png
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.544 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@ccfa5e
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.545 ImageUtils creating scaled masked copy width=1024 height=75 mask=null BufferedImage@d57bcb: type = 2 DirectColorModel: rmask=ff0000 gmask=ff00 bmask=ff amask=ff000000 IntegerInterleavedRaster: width = 1038 height = 75 #Bands = 4 xOff = 0 yOff = 0 dataOffset[0] 0
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.554 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.555 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=1024 h=75
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.640 Rendered new font to cache font=java.awt.Font[family=Arial,name=Arial,style=bold,size=25] numGlyphs=1674 numCachedGlyphs=248 numImages=2
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.640 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.653 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=256 h=256
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.653 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\photo_folder.png
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.664 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@87cbde
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.664 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.680 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=271 h=223
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.681 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\arrow_round_down_focus.png
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.680 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@1a32902
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.680 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.680 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=16 h=16
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.680 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\arrow_round_up_nofocus.png
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.680 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@1896444
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.680 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:49.680 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=16 h=16
Sun 9/3 16:04:50.977 Received command of:NOOP from Socket[addr=/192.168.1.6,port=42024,localport=2108]
Sun 9/3 16:04:51.650 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\list_sub_focus.png
Sun 9/3 16:04:51.660 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@14aa453
Sun 9/3 16:04:51.663 ImageUtils creating scaled masked copy width=1024 height=77 mask=null BufferedImage@1bf502d: type = 2 DirectColorModel: rmask=ff0000 gmask=ff00 bmask=ff amask=ff000000 IntegerInterleavedRaster: width = 1038 height = 77 #Bands = 4 xOff = 0 yOff = 0 dataOffset[0] 0
Sun 9/3 16:04:51.675 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:51.687 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=1024 h=77
Sun 9/3 16:04:53.745 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\icon_empty_nofocus.png
Sun 9/3 16:04:53.762 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@21e5f0
Sun 9/3 16:04:53.758 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:53.783 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=410 h=410
Sun 9/3 16:04:54.744 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\icon_empty_focus.png
Sun 9/3 16:04:54.765 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@1e7f21
Sun 9/3 16:04:54.774 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:54.789 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=410 h=410
Sun 9/3 16:04:55.980 Received command of:NOOP from Socket[addr=/192.168.1.6,port=42024,localport=2108]
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.433 ImageUtils loading binary data length=5290
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.430 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@1108691
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.430 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.432 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=96 h=140
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.446 ImageUtils loading binary data length=6972
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.446 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@548719
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.446 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.446 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=100 h=140
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.450 ImageUtils loading binary data length=4899
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.461 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@a0fbd6
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.461 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.461 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=98 h=140
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.464 ImageUtils loading binary data length=4220
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.461 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@1549f0e
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.461 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.463 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=98 h=140
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.467 ImageUtils loading binary data length=4338
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.477 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@10cface
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.477 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.479 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=100 h=137
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.477 ImageUtils loading binary data length=4826
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.478 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@1ece626
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.479 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.481 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=98 h=140
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.493 ImageUtils loading binary data length=4582
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.494 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@d39f3c
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.495 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.497 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=97 h=140
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.504 ImageUtils loading binary data length=4545
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.494 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@14966cc
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.495 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.497 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=98 h=140
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.508 ImageUtils loading binary data length=5604
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.509 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@118cb72
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.510 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.512 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=94 h=140
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.580 Rendered new font to cache font=java.awt.Font[family=Arial,name=Arial,style=bold,size=8] numGlyphs=1674 numCachedGlyphs=815 numImages=1
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.580 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:04:56.586 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=256 h=256
Sun 9/3 16:05:00.977 Received command of:NOOP from Socket[addr=/192.168.1.6,port=42024,localport=2108]
Sun 9/3 16:05:01.292 ImageUtils loading file C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Images\arrow_round_down_nofocus.png
Sun 9/3 16:05:01.294 ImageUtils creating BI copy sun.awt.image.ToolkitImage@12471dc
Sun 9/3 16:05:01.289 Premultiplying alpha for BuffImage...
Sun 9/3 16:05:01.289 Creating DirectX9 Texture from memory w=16 h=16
Sun 9/3 16:05:05.977 Received command of:NOOP from Socket[addr=/192.168.1.6,port=42024,localport=2108]
Sun 9/3 16:05:08.040 setUI(sage.bz@12bed82[Main Menu]) histIdx=0 uiHistory=[sage.bz@12bed82[Main Menu], sage.bz@1aabda3[Video Library Folder View]]

As you can see, I entered the My Videos area (video library) and set to both folder and list view, and nothing happened. But I wonder why its not trying to fetch the images at all. I was at least expecting to see it trying, and failing.

[Jesse]

Hi,

I am still using the latest dev build posted by mlbdude and the icons work fine. My genre listview looks just like the screen cap posted by Mike.

You could try unzipping to the desktop and manually replacing the genre icon folder. I got both this and the unzip method to work for me.

Is there any way to make them much bigger? I would like them to pretty much fill the entire "bar" (probably not the right term) in the listview.

We have an older version of photoshop if that would be needed for editing, but I have almost no experience with it.

TIA

Jesse

[gbutters]

Kirby,

Send me your prop file and let me see if anything jumps out.

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by Jesse

Is there any way to make them much bigger? I would like them to pretty much fill the entire "bar" (probably not the right term) in the listview.

We are planning to look into this once flachbar gets back. It will require some changes to the STV.

Aloha,
Mike

[Jesse]

Hi Mike,

Please do not take my request as a criticism! They are a huge improvement just the way they are. Thanks again for all your efforts.

What happened to flachbar?

Take care,

Jesse

[geogecko]

He had an overdose of vacation (flachbar).

Kirby, I wonder if it has anything to possibly do with icons being enabled or disabled. Maybe we should compare prop files. I'll also compare, if you send it to me (or post it).

[Kirby]

ok, here is my props file.