[mythtv-theming] How to set up a test bed for a theme

[Federico Ferri]

In data lunedì 1 agosto 2011 08:52:58, Jason Taylor ha scritto:
> On 1 August 2011 16:20, Kenneth Emerson <kenneth.emerson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm new to theme programing, but trying to learn.  I currently use the
> > blue-abstract-wide theme and wanted to make some small changes to one of the
> > menus (baby steps in the learning process).  Trying to follow the
> > instructions on the (several) theme wikis, I created a directory in the
> > mythtv user's home directory:
> >
> > /home/mythtv/.mythtv/themes/blue-abstract-wide/
> >
> > Then I copied the xml file I wanted to modify to that directory.  I believe
> > the wiki said that the frontend will search this directory first and then
> > the /usr/[local]/share/mythtv/theme directory for everything else.
> >
> > Well, that seemed to get mythtv and myself very confused.  The first thing
> > I noticed was that I now had two versions of blue-abstract-wide to choose
> > from in the Theme Chooser setup menu.  Not realizing what was happening, I
> > selected one and ended up with the complete theme loaded into the
> > home/mythtv/ directory instead of the /usr/local/share directory.
> >
> > I cleaned that up and got things back to where they had been and when I
> > reloaded the frontend, I ended up with the Tera theme and could not get the
> > blue-abstract-wide theme back.  It wasn't until I deleted the
> > blue-abstract-wide directory from /home/mythtv/.mythtv/themes directory that
> > things went back to normal.  I assume that happened because, lacking a
> > working theme, the frontend defaults to the Tera theme?
> >
> > Since then, I have been making changes directly to the blue-abstract-wide
> > theme residing in the /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes directory although that
> > is not optimum as my changes will get wiped out each time I update.
> >
> > Obviously I have something screwed up either in my configuration or in my
> > interpretation of the instructions for testing.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> 
> Copy the theme to ~/.mythth/themes/blue-abstract-modified
> 
> Change the theme name...
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythUI_Theme_Development#themeinfo.xml
> 
> You can then use this to reload the theme while mythfrontend is running
> 
> kill -USR1 $(pidof mythfrontend)
> 
> Thanks what I did anyway
> 
> 1 note if the XML in invalid the frontend will load the default theme as a
> fall back..
> 
> ~/.mythtv/themecache some times seems to need to be cleared out as well
> (which im guessing is what was happening to you)
>  Jason Taylor
> 
> 
i add a tip:
if you run mythfrontend from terminal whith this command "mythfrontend -v gui,extra,osd" you will se some interesting log..

bye, Federico