Skin settings - Skin settings provide skins with user-definable (by the skin designer) property settings that can be leveraged for many purposes including making logical decisions about when or how controls are displayed and what the controls display.TV guide genre/custom colouring - Provides the ability to highlight programs in the TV guide using colours.New menubutton control - A new versatile button control for displaying a list of selectable items.Skin themes provide the ability of the skin designer to offer such features as colour changes, font changes, layout changes or any combination of these or other special skin appearance or function related changes. By convention, a skin theme should be selectable from the Settings -> General window where the skin selection is also made. Skin themes - Skin designers may offer themes for their skins.The following significant skin engine enhancements have been made to improve the usability and extensibility of the MediaPortal user interface: Highlights of this release: Enhancements to the skin engine and default skin Make sure that you read the instructions at the end of this article regarding installation, upgrade and extension compatibility. Please be aware that this is Alpha Software - so expect it to have some problems and quirks.

So the purpose of this Alpha release is to get all those great new features and bug fixes tested by the community, and fix the remaining problems, to work towards the final release version.

In this new version we again introduce many exciting new features which will enrich your Home Theatre experience.Īdding new features and fixing bugs means that we had to do significant changes to MediaPortal's source code. We are very proud to announce that the first Alpha Version of our new major release, MediaPortal 1.3.0 is now available for download!

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