Tried to find a way around Moviesheet with the Moviesheet as a Thumbnail. (and without having to use the dummy file method)
I created a method of having a Moviesheet + Thumbnail gets displayed at the bottom of the screen. (bonus… has a ‘Reflection’ as well)
Also, all files eg. Movie.mkv Movie.jpg Movie.xml are contained in one MAIN folder. No subfolders are used with the method. (It is a simple Navigate → Click → Play Movie)
This is NOT a ‘Covertrickle’ method !
This method only requires you to create ONE sheet whenever you want to add a new movie.
(And also if you delete a movie, everything is still in correct alphabetical order.)
The Moviesheet in this Demonstration is a small resolution… but the navigation is fairly quick.
YOUTUBE LINK: 00:01:00 min Navigation Speed Demonstration
I did experiment with Larger Resolutions, but unfortunatly the navigation became horribly slow (unworkable)
This Method can also be applied to wall sheets,wide thumbs etc… with carefull design and layout.
I can post a Visual Explaination of how i achieved this. One hint: i got the idea from “Photo View” and some of its code.
This Gallery view is a Work In Progess (Thumbnail spacing needs alginment tweaks, ‘Watched’ and ‘Favourite’ Overlays need to coded and graphics designed)
You’ll be able to use others, but they have to be of a similar layout. I had a similar idea, so I’ll try to explain how it works.
Instead of using scale , it uses no scale, so it relies on the width and height set in the xml and does not scale the image. By not scaling the image it will use the full size of the image, but will cut off anything that does not fit within the set width & height that is set in the xml.
By setting the x & y postion in the xml for the thumbnail image in scroll plane, you can determine which part of the Moviesheet you want to display.
Here is more less what it’s doing:
Here a Moviesheet.
And here is what it is doing to display the thumbnail.
So size and placement is important in the Moviesheet.
