[mythtv-users] Help with theme writing (porting Retro)

[Christopher X. Candreva]

First -- is this the appropriate place to post questions on writing themes ? 
If not where is the correct place (devs list ?)  Second -- I will happily 
accept pointers to documentation as the answer . . .

I'm working on themeing the recordings-ui.xml file. Starting from the 
default theme, I wanted to replace the rounded area used to select a 
subtitle with an image.  I replaced this:

                <state name="selected" from="active">
                    <shape name="selectbar">
                        <area>25,0,857,30</area>
                    </shape>
                </state>

With this:
                <state name="selected" from="active">
                    <imagetype name="selectbar">
                        <filename>rk-selectbar.png</filename>
                        <crop>0,0,880,29</crop>
                    </imagetype>
                </state>

This 'works', however, mythfrontend now displays an error about a duplicate 
object "selectbar". Experimentation seems to indicate the area is still 
being defined, somewhere. If I change the name of the image, both the area 
and image show up -- even though I am not defineing it.


I'm having some other problem but I'm going to post one at a time, since as 
I said it 'works', but there are weird side effects, such as in other states 
I can then change the font size, but not the color.

Full recordings-ui.xml and useable Retro-wide theme available here:
http://www.westnet.com/~chris/Mythtv/Retro-wide.tar.gz


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