Theme: Sage Pro MC Theme V0.08 for SageMC 16x9 STV V6.3.7

[gplasky]

Sage Pro MC Theme V0.08 for SageMC 16x9 STV V6.3.7

A loadable UI theme for the SageMC 16x9 STV. Requires SageTV V6.3.7 or later. Also designed to be used with flachbar and Mike's latest customizations. A SageProMC.layout prefs file is included in the directory.(Tested and developed with 6.3.7 RC.)Incudes some graphics from Foofaraw Showicons for the time being.

(A version of this theme is also available for the Default STV. Please see here for the Default STV version

Installation

Unzip the package into your Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Themes folder.
First go and pick this as a theme. My Menu->Settings->Select Theme->Select. The list in the dialog box scrolls so go down and choose Sage Pro MC. Once that is done and you are back at the Main Menu choose your "Options" button or right click and choose "Customize Screen Layout" ->Import/Export Layout->Import All. Go Up a Folder and browse to the Themes directory->SagePro MC directory and choose SageMC Pro.layout. Choose yes to overwrite and you should be all set to go.



For support or suggestions, see this forum thread here.

Screenshots





Shades of Meedio
Yes I know some will recognize it from my Meedio Pro theme I did long ago.

Icons
Icons were originally created by Paul Davey. He originally did the GANT icons that are included with the Dynamic Menu plugin. According to the documentation included with the icons:

It basically means that you are free to alter and redistribute Buuf as you wish. However, you must attribute it thusly:

Based on icons by Paul Davey aka Mattahan. All rights reserved.
You may NOT use any Buuf icon commercially without my permission.

Features
Takes advantage of the new customizations in SageMC 16x9 6.3.7

If you have questions or comments put them in this thread. The issues you see may be more related to the new features and importing of customizations in the SageMC 16x9. Please pursue those questions here.

Download from here.



Gerry

[technazz]

Looks great. Ill have to give it a go. Good Work!

Technazz

[bcjenkins]

Gerry,

All the new work on SageMC make me want to check it out again.. Your theme would be one reason as would the AMG. Any chance the weather icon has been looked at?

TIA

B

[bialio]

Hey Gerry,

In the theme.properties file you can now put some hooks in for the AMG - of most interest is probably the "amg/color_focus_highlite" - set that to the color of your highlite bar (looks like roughly 0xBB5B28) and it will "match" if you have the AMG loaded.

btl.

[heffe2001]

For whatever reason, it looks like the main menu layouts aren't getting updated on my system (I go to import all, go through the steps, say it can overwrite, and it stays the same as the regular system). I'm running the latest Sage beta, latest SageMC, and the download from here. I'm also on Vista if that makes any difference (I'm going to go set the permissions on the folders Sage is installed in to full access if it's not, just in case that's the problem). Also, this is through Placeshifter (testing it at work) if THAT makes any difference.

**I think it was the bad .jar file from the distribution, I pulled it down like the hour after it was released, and didn't notice the fixed Jar file in the SageMC thread...

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by bcjenkins

Gerry,

All the new work on SageMC make me want to check it out again.. Your theme would be one reason as would the AMG. Any chance the weather icon has been looked at?

TIA

B

Looked at and changed.

Unfortunately I don't have the ability of defining a different set of weather icons like I do in the Default STV. I am going to make it a seperate download that you would have to replace the existing with.

(My next update for the default STV will have the changed icon for you.)

I'm also going to put in a request to flachbar to see if an alternate weather icon directory could be defined in the theme.xml like it can in the default stv.

Gerry

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by gplasky

I'm also going to put in a request to flachbar to see if an alternate weather icon directory could be defined in the theme.xml like it can in the default stv.

Gerry

Sure Gerry, no problem...


Dirk

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by gplasky

Looked at and changed.

Unfortunately I don't have the ability of defining a different set of weather icons like I do in the Default STV. I am going to make it a seperate download that you would have to replace the existing with.

(My next update for the default STV will have the changed icon for you.)

I'm also going to put in a request to flachbar to see if an alternate weather icon directory could be defined in the theme.xml like it can in the default stv.

Gerry

I'm thinking it would probably make the most sense to just make the weather icons themable. They would then reside in a subfolder in your theme. The default weather icons would be moved to the default theme so they would be picked up if the selected theme doesn't have them.

Aloha,
Mike

[heffe2001]

The bad .jar file was the culprit on my system, although I'm still seeing one tiny issue, the text for Recent & Upcoming both are solid white, so it sort of looks a bit off (especially compared to the screenshots above).



Set it up on one of my PC clients at the house via remote, and it looks fine, could it be something with Placeshifter?

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by heffe2001

The bad .jar file was the culprit on my system, although I'm still seeing one tiny issue, the text for Recent & Upcoming both are solid white, so it sort of looks a bit off (especially compared to the screenshots above).

I'm guessing there may be another "older jar" file in your jars folder. Not sure what it could be. I didn't see this on my 2 ysstems, MVP or HD xt.

Gerry

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

I'm thinking it would probably make the most sense to just make the weather icons themable. They would then reside in a subfolder in your theme. The default weather icons would be moved to the default theme so they would be picked up if the selected theme doesn't have them.

Aloha,
Mike

This is the way it is handled in the default STV. You can define the path to the weather icons relative to the STV\SageTV3 directory. I put the weather folder in my theme for the default and define the path accordingly. That would work great.

Gerry

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by bialio

Hey Gerry,

In the theme.properties file you can now put some hooks in for the AMG - of most interest is probably the "amg/color_focus_highlite" - set that to the color of your highlite bar (looks like roughly 0xBB5B28) and it will "match" if you have the AMG loaded.

btl.

I'm going to take a look at this and work on it this week. Thanks for the info.

Gerry

[Khristopher]

Love the theme, but I can't seem to import the layout. Nothing changes when I do so.

[heffe2001]

Originally Posted by Khristopher

Love the theme, but I can't seem to import the layout. Nothing changes when I do so.

Same problem as me, check the last couple days of the SageMC thread, it'll have a fixed .jar file for import/exports.

Could be a older .jar file, but if it is, it's something from the main package of SageMC from maybe 1 revision back, reloaded the server and none of the stuff was copied from the old (except the wiz.bin file). I'll check though and see what's what in there..

[gplasky]

Make sure you got the latest jar file from the SageMC 16x9 thread. And make sure it's the latest SageTV 6.3.7 and latest java. Other than that it should work.

Gerry

[Khristopher]

Got it!

However in the process.....I lost my own custom layout which I guess didn't save properly! *sigh* Oh well, thanks for the great theme!!

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by Khristopher

Got it!

However in the process.....I lost my own custom layout which I guess didn't save properly! *sigh* Oh well, thanks for the great theme!!

Note that when you start sage up (and when you close), SageMC now automatically saves a backup of all of your SageMC properties, including layouts. Look in the ...\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Backups folder. You might be able to recover your layout.

Aloha,
Mike

[heffe2001]

Originally Posted by gplasky

I'm guessing there may be another "older jar" file in your jars folder. Not sure what it could be. I didn't see this on my 2 ysstems, MVP or HD xt.

Gerry

I see several older jars, but not sure if they are the latest or not. I'm going to attach the list and see if you just happen to notice any that are outdated.

03/23/2005  09:45 AM            72,906 jdic.jar
10/20/2005  03:00 PM            28,080 nielm_getrssnews.jar
12/04/2005  05:25 PM            31,789 servlet.jar
03/29/2006  09:26 AM            22,327 commons-logging-api.jar
03/29/2006  09:26 AM            89,764 sbbi-jmx-1.0.jar
03/29/2006  09:26 AM           491,164 mx4j-tools.jar
03/29/2006  09:26 AM           167,500 mx4j-remote.jar
03/29/2006  09:26 AM           261,135 mx4j-jmx.jar
03/29/2006  09:26 AM            31,605 commons-logging.jar
03/29/2006  09:26 AM           268,794 commons-jxpath-1.1.jar
03/29/2006  09:26 AM           148,179 mx4j-impl.jar
05/04/2006  07:56 AM           109,503 sbbi-upnplib-1.0.3.jar
10/24/2006  12:57 AM            32,094 nielm_sagemenureader.jar
12/06/2006  09:18 AM           263,281 jcifs-1.1.6.jar
09/12/2007  08:45 PM           358,085 log4j.jar
09/12/2007  08:45 PM           355,030 mail.jar
09/12/2007  08:45 PM            54,829 activation.jar
09/21/2007  09:57 AM            41,185 nielm_sageimdb.jar
12/03/2007  12:35 PM           539,093 gkusnick.sagetv.jar
12/15/2007  06:27 PM            15,590 mailcheck.jar
12/21/2007  02:00 PM            14,655 nielm_sageutls.jar
12/21/2007  03:31 PM            52,854 nielm_sagexmlinfo.jar
12/21/2007  03:33 PM           374,237 nielm_sagewebserver.jar
01/26/2008  04:56 PM            18,177 df_sageutils.jar
01/28/2008  03:01 PM            52,166 sagemc.jar

[gplasky]

I don't see anything out of the ordinary. Are you using VMR9 or overlay? 3d turned on or off? Color overlay on or off?

Gerry

[heffe2001]

This is on both the HD Extender, AND the MVP extender, the client PC I loaded it on works just fine.

Originally Posted by gplasky

I don't see anything out of the ordinary. Are you using VMR9 or overlay? 3d turned on or off? Color overlay on or off?

Gerry