Change skip intro and credit buttons

[Shawn9347]

Hi,

the buttons for skip intro and skip credits look a little old fashioned IMO. Could you change it to a more modern looking button like plex itself has? And maybe an option to change the location if it's not too much to ask?

[croneter]

Sorry, this is front-end and thus COMPLETELY not my area 😢. Pull requests are always welcome though.

[Shawn9347]

Okay, I can do that. Do you have an easy way to test changes? Or do I just start a tv show episode over and over again in kodi every time I make a change to the xml file? xD

[croneter]

Great! No sorry, you'll have to fire up Kodi again and again to test your changes.

[Shawn9347]

Oh okay. I'll see what I can do when I find the time.

[m1dy]

@Shawn9347
script-plex-skip_marker.txt
That's how I changed it for me. Very minimal and fades to 20% opacity after 5 seconds so it doesn't disturb as much if I decide to watch the intro/credits.
Maybe you can use this hack job as an inspiration.

[Shawn9347]

Yea I found the file as well. Best would be that the button goes away after a few seconds and is visible whenever you open the player controls just like in plex.

[m1dy]

I wouldn't want the button to disappear completely. Always good to know that skipping is possible without having to open player controls.
Did try that before. Had the button go away after 5 seconds. Didn't like it as much as how I do it is now. Sometimes I wasn't sure I could skip because I didn't pay attention in the beginning.
Maybe you try my solution and see if you like it :)

[Shawn9347]

Yea okay I will leave the functionality as is.

[Shawn9347]

border doesn't work in this case. I don't know why yet. I would like to add rounded corners.

[croneter]

Any progress here, @Shawn9347?

[Shawn9347]

No sorry. I really haven't had any time to work on this.

[Shawn9347]

Okay I have no clue how to fix this. This is totally not my specialty either. But, @croneter at least remove the shadow around the button. The width of the shadow is litteraly the entire screen so that's really annoying obviously.

It's this part.
<control type="group"> <height>64</height> <control type="image"> <width>100%</width> <height>64</height> <texture colordiffuse="44000000">skipintro-background.png</texture> </control>

[Shawn9347]

@Shawn9347 script-plex-skip_marker.txt That's how I changed it for me. Very minimal and fades to 20% opacity after 5 seconds so it doesn't disturb as much if I decide to watch the intro/credits. Maybe you can use this hack job as an inspiration.

This version has issues as well. There's a blue line across the text and no idea why.

[Shawn9347]

@Shawn9347 script-plex-skip_marker.txt That's how I changed it for me. Very minimal and fades to 20% opacity after 5 seconds so it doesn't disturb as much if I decide to watch the intro/credits. Maybe you can use this hack job as an inspiration.

How did you get that border effect? I want to make it less but none of the values in the code change the border.

[m1dy]

I don't see any border with my implementation.
Can you take a screenshot?

[thorindwarf]

May I ask you where do I have to put script-plex-skip_marker.txt in order to "deploy" it? :)

[m1dy]

@thorindwarf
just replace this file with it:
\addons\plugin.video.plexkodiconnect\resources\skins\default\1080i\script-plex-skip_marker.xml
notice that it should have .xml as the extension. I just uploaded it as .txt because github doesn't like xml for some reason

[thorindwarf]

Yep, I found it :) Thanks!