[mythtv-users] display of year in metadata lookup results in Arclight theme

[Thomas Boehm]

Hi Angela,

thanks for the quick reply. I deleted the theme from my theme directory,
so that we're talking about the same thing.

On 12/01/15 16:39, Angela wrote:
>> From: mythtv-users [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf
>> I'm using the Arclight theme and when I do a metadata lookup, the search
>> results don't show the year, but the day and month of the release. This is
>> totally useless. Who would know on what exact date a movie is released?
> 
> I am the maintainer of the Arclight theme. For me it shows "Released: DD MMM
> YYYY", 29 Feb, 2007

For me it shows for the "Predator (1987)" example of the other thread

"Released Jun 11"

> 
> In base.xml (twice):
> <textarea name="releasedate" from="timedate">
>                         <template>Released %1</template>

Yes, I have this twice

> And depends on one of your data format settings.
> 
> You may replace the entry in the themes base.xml:
> 
> <textarea name="year">
> <area>280,0,70,50</area>     <--- change
> <align>left,vcenter</align>   <---- change when needed
>                         <font>basesmall</font>

This changes the alignment of the year in the list of my movies, not in
the results of the metadata lookup. The lines in the just downloaded
theme are

<statetype name="buttonitem">
    <state name="active">
        ...
        <textarea name="year">
            <area>674,10,450,40</area>
            <align>right,vcenter</align>
            <font>basesmall</font>
            <alpha>210</alpha>
        </textarea>
        ...


While writing this I played with the appearance settings and solved it.
The "Date format" didn't include the year. This might have been the
default setting. I don't remember changing it. After changing it to
include the year it shows up in the search results too.

Wouldn't it be better to only show the year without the day and month,
and also independent of the "Date format" setting like the Terra theme
does it?


Thanks for pointing me into the right direction.
Thomas