[mythtv-theming] [0.27] Design problems/questions

[Angela]

I am redesigning the image gallery (grid) in the Arclight theme and in the
thumbnail grid I wanted the filename only for directories displayed in the
thumbnail.

                <statetype name="nodetype">
                    <state name="subfolder"> 

Seems to work only. Other states like 'image', 'file', 'upfolder' are not
working, is this correct?



Solving the unavailable 'image' or 'file' state a came across some oddities,
which are maybe problems or intended to be working as is, please comment:

I have an area and want to position an image in the right upper corner, only
the first code snippet works, all others display the image in the left upper
corner, why?
Does the statetype widget not propagate the parent height and width
information further down? Does it also only process position widgets and
ignores area widgets inside?

  <buttonlist name="buttonlist_gallery">
       <spacing>0</spacing>
       <area>0,0,1920,1080</area>
       <align>bottom,hcenter</align>
       <searchposition>610,340</searchposition>
       <layout>grid</layout>
       <scrollstyle>free</scrollstyle>
       <arrange>stack</arrange>
       <wrapstyle>flowing</wrapstyle>
       <showarrow>no</showarrow>
       <drawfrombottom>no</drawfrombottom>
       <buttonarea>40,40,100%-80,1000</buttonarea>
       <spacing>9</spacing>
       <statetype name="buttonitem">
           <state name="active">
               <area>0,0,280,280</area>
	    <imagetype name="buttonimage">
		   <area>0,0,280,280</area>
		   <mask>images/masks/mask_rounded_border_medium.png</mask>
		   <filename>images/shared/DefaultPicture.png</filename>
	   </imagetype>


	// image on the right upper corner of the thumb, correct
               <area>0,0,300,300</area>
                <statetype name="nodetype">
                    <position>100%-90,5</position>
                    <state name="subfolder">
                        <imagetype name="icon">
                            <area>0,0,80,80</area>
                            <filename>images.png</filename>
                            <preserveaspect>yes</preserveaspect>
                        </imagetype>
                    </state>
 
	// on the right upper corner but image is not resized
                <area>0,0,300,300</area>
                <statetype name="nodetype">
                    <area>100%-90,5,80,80</area>
                    <state name="subfolder">
                        <imagetype name="icon">
                            <filename>images.png</filename>
                            <preserveaspect>yes</preserveaspect>

	  </imagetype>
                    </state>

	// image on the left upper corner, image resized.
                <area>0,0,300,300</area>
                <statetype name="nodetype">
                    <position>0,0</position>
                    <state name="subfolder">
                        <imagetype name="icon">
                            <area>100%-90,5,80,80</area>
                            <filename>images.png</filename>
                            <preserveaspect>yes</preserveaspect>
                        </imagetype>
                    </state>

I noticed that I can't use statetypes more than once, is this true?

                <statetype name="nodetype">
	                <state name="subfolder">
...
                <statetype name="nodetype">
	                    <state name="subfolder">

Even surrounding those with groups doesn't work, it takes the last
occurrence.

	<group name="group1">
	                <statetype name="nodetype">
			<state name="subfolder">
....
	<group name="group2">
	                <statetype name="nodetype">
			<state name="subfolder">


			

It is not possible to call a group from within a statetype when it uses
relative positioning/sizing.

                <group name="textgroup">
                    <area>10,10,-5,-5</area>
......

                <statetype name="nodetype">
                    <state name="subfolder">
                        <imagetype name="icon">
                            <area>190,5,80,80</area>
                            <filename>images/folderclosed.png</filename>
                            <preserveaspect>yes</preserveaspect>
                        </imagetype>
		<group name="metadata1" from="textgroup">
			<area>0,0,280,280</area>  (also not working without
it)
		</group>

	</state>