455 + 201 = 656 ∴ You are 1 pixel down to far with y=“657” ?
Also, with the Mirror code in general ive noticed a funny line at the top of the reflected poster… to hide it, i reverse the XML order of the Code ie. Draw the Mirror 1st , 1 pixel up ‘655’… and Overlay the Thumbnails on top.
i meant to go one pixel down further in order to have a 1 pixel line in between the original and the mirrored cover since I am using this effect on my logo and other areas of the theme. Anyways i find it very awesome that you catched it.
Joey, based on your experience, does this effect compromise the performance a few percentage points or is it my vivid imagination?
I haven’t noticed any significant decrease in speed, to the contrary ive noticed an Increase in speed due to the fact of using jpgs instead of pngs in the demo on page(1)
* if your mirrordifusion.png is exactly 138 x125 … then you can delete scale_type=“” scale=“100” selected_scale=“100” as it’s not necessary.
* Since you have specified exact x co-ordinates for the mirrordifusion.png’s then align=“hcenter” is not necessary either.
* rename mirrordifusion.png to a name of a graphic element that the Firmware natively recognizes.
eg. since Mediafly is discontinuing their service as of 31 March 2012 … Rename your mirrordifusion.png to a name of one the Mediafly pngs. eg. mf_player_frame_bg.png
* Personally i try to remove ‘comments’ and ‘indentation’ … to reduce XML filesize and for efficiency.
Thanx a lot Joey, I will optimize the code according to your first example and I will adjust the image to the size specified in the code (was more like a try and rush kind of test thingie)
The comments are meant for modders they probably don’t slow down the system but the resizing certainly does, i shall fix that
thanx again, this thing really gives the whole thing the last touch. I love it
Hello again Joey, i think i found an ideal solution which can be optimized by using image already existing image names
The following code is from my Large Video xml but it is the same system.
In order to save code and graphics power I was creating 1 diffusion image instead of 7.
Not only that the performance has increased again (for me) it also allows you to make it seamless with your design.
The way I see it people are using 2 types of designs,
they are fading out to black (or other color) on bottom of the page with the standard gallery overlay image
they have an elaborate glass table design (like you) simply copy the part of the glass table design and put it in one image and fade it out to the top and you have a seamless glass table effect with your design.
You might argue that 1x 1280x 200 pixel image is reducing the performance compared to 7 times reloading the same image, well i tried and it is faster with one image, probably due to processing the code.
so here is what I used for my large video page
this is cropped from the middle but you can see the backdrop isn’t easy to match but it works great
1. Managed to Stop the ‘Flickering’ of the Backdrops when you press and hold the left or right arrow button when navigating.
ie. You’re on a Movie … the Backdrop loads and Displays … When you Start Navigating by pressing and holding the Arrow Buttons… the Backdrop does Not Change until you Stop on a New Movie … then the Backdrop displays for the new Movie.
Did a Bit of Optimizing … Navigation is Very Fast (Quick Test: 28 Movies / thumbs in 4 Seconds Flat) Will post a Youtube Speed Demo Tomorrow.
(also gonna see if it helps with png navigation speed in my Aeonish Theme)
Joey that must be an advantage of the older firmware.
When holding the button for longer than a second it skips an entire page and becomes completely uncontrollable, unless you found some code to prevent that. I would be more than interested to see that
Now i notice one major thing you are using local backdrops :laughing: so combined with reflections using jpg that should mean compatibilty with even the newer firmwares ?
yeah that is awesome indeed, seems i have to deal with that today myself, when I hold the left arrow key for longer than 1 second it will skip the page (7 columns) it is not changing the backdrop either but the entire navigation becomes unctorollable because somehow it is alos doing little steps in between. Let’s say I want to go from Episode 1 to Episode 8, all i had to do was press for 1 second… NO i end up somewhere at 10 or 11 and if I hold it too long i am ending up at 15 or even 23