STV Import: SageMC Advanced Mini Guide

[chrishallowell]

Excellent work! Thanks a lot!

Just wondering how I change the default orange highlight coloring?
I looked in them.properties in the folder: ....SageMCE\Themes\Default but didn't see anything there.

Thanks,
Chris

[tawd1992]

I'd also like to know how to change the color of the highlighted channel. Thanks for making such a neat add on for SageMC.

[bialio]

in the theme.properties file, add this line :

amg/color_airinginfo=0xnnnnnn

where nnnnnn is the hex value (RGB) of the color that you want to be.

btl.

[tawd1992]

I have a suggestion for the AMG. When you select a channel, the guide stays on for about another 5 seconds. I'm done with the guide when I select a show, so I don't need to look at it anymore. If you could put an option in a future release that would close the guide after a channel is selected I think people might find that useful. Either way, the guide is great & thanks for all the time you put into this.

[maxpower]

Originally Posted by tawd1992

I have a suggestion for the AMG. When you select a channel, the guide stays on for about another 5 seconds. I'm done with the guide when I select a show, so I don't need to look at it anymore. If you could put an option in a future release that would close the guide after a channel is selected I think people might find that useful. Either way, the guide is great & thanks for all the time you put into this.

That's a good suggestion and the way I expected it would work. FYI, you can make the guide disappear immediately by pressing the left arrow.

[bialio]

Originally Posted by maxpower

That's a good suggestion and the way I expected it would work. FYI, you can make the guide disappear immediately by pressing the left arrow.

I considered doing that early on myself. I ended up leaving the guide up because that's what the normal MiniGuide does as well. I'll look into that for future versions.

btl.

[Kirby]

I've got a silly question, regarding the channel ordering in the AMG. On my normal guide, I have channels listed like this:

• 2 - PBS
• 3 - CBS
• 4 - ABC
• 5 - PBS

and so on. While in the full guide, page down scrolls down to the next page (6, 7, 8 and 9). In the AMG however, I cant seem to get this behavior. Looking at this pic:

Originally Posted by bialio

if I change the 'navigation' setting it seems to change the direction that UP/DOWN move through the channel listing, but just like this pic, the channels are listed in reverse order from the main guide. So my question is, have I missed an obvious setting somewhere to get the AMG listing to mirror the main guide? Or cant it do this, in which case can I request that option?

[bialio]

The latest version of SageMC has an option to Reverse the navigation in the mini-guide. I think this is over in the Screen Specific settings (same area that you selected "External STVi" to enable the AMG). So set that to reverse*, and then toggle the Navigation setting of the AMG until you get the layout and direction that you are looking for.

FYI - In future versions of the AMG that setting will be renamed to Channel Order (Ascending or Descending).

btl.

[Kirby]

Originally Posted by bialio

The latest version of SageMC has an option to Reverse the navigation in the mini-guide. I think this is over in the Screen Specific settings (same area that you selected "External STVi" to enable the AMG). So set that to reverse*, and then toggle the Navigation setting of the AMG until you get the layout and direction that you are looking for.

FYI - In future versions of the AMG that setting will be renamed to Channel Order (Ascending or Descending).

btl.

Yup, I'm positive I didnt change a setting in that part other than the EXternal STVi. I saw one for the main guide (which obviously didnt apply). I'll check it out tonight. thanks!

[maxpower]

Originally Posted by bialio

I think that's a good suggestion maxpower. Here's what I'm playing around with as far as adjusting the layout :



What do you guys think?

Any idea when this update will be available (having the title fill the width of the AMG display for the channel with focus)?

[bialio]

Very soon. I got sidetracked for awhile (2 new toys - iPhone and a new car) but I actually loaded up my dev machine yesterday and started polishing up a new release.

I've got some cool ideas floating around for release 2.0 - so this release will just be few cosmetic things......

btl.

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by bialio

I considered doing that early on myself. I ended up leaving the guide up because that's what the normal MiniGuide does as well. I'll look into that for future versions.

btl.

You're right, it should be a general setting. I'll add this option into SageMC.


Dirk

[Kirby]

Is there a way to reduce the font size of the non-highlighted channel? Is that a SageMC font setting, or could an option be added to allow it to be changed (smaller)?

[bialio]

That option is available in the 1.2 release of AMG.

Which can be found here

btl.

[mkanet]

Cool! I've been waiting for this new release

[mkanet]

Maybe I read it wrong, but I could have sworn that I read somewhere you were planning on getting the channel order to display the way some of us were hoping to see in this update.

Also, is there a way to change the focus channel # font size?

[bialio]

The order has been available since the last update of the Core SageMC - see this post :

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...8&postcount=88

There isn't a way to change the focus channel number / name font size.

btl.

[maxpower]

Originally Posted by bialio

the 1.2 release of AMG.

Which can be found here

btl.

Looks great! Thanks for the update.

[mkanet]

I'm just thrilled. First, I discover that the channel order can be adjust... and... I'm finally able to change that default orange color of the focus to something that matches my taste better.....



PS: There's a little grey alphablended area at the bottom that shouldn't be there after resizing.. but pretty minor...

[bialio]

send me a screen shot with the options menu open - it looks like something might be wonky with some of the settings there to make the alpha extend at the bottom.

btl.