SageTV Skin ++: SageMC 6.3.7

Some people really like teh default Sage skin due to its simplicity. It is straightforward and very easy to use. Those wanting a little more, say folks pining for a Media Portal'esque skin, look no further then the latest SageMC version. This verions brings the abilty due use and import .layout files that brings a certain level of easy skinability. Something which Sage was sorely missing until its latest versions.

Hit the read more button for the full changelog. You will want to visit this thread to see the custom layouts people come up with.

Announcement Post: 

Dynamic Submenus

• Dynamic Submenu configuration is now completely independent of the Main Menu configuration.
• The Title Panel can now be disabled from the layout configuration menu.

• Icon menu mode
  • Icon menu scrolling will wrap vertically when vertical wrap is enabled.
  • For single row icon menu, menu scrolling will wrap horizontally when horizontal wrapping is enabled.
• Fixed Focus menu mode
  • 3 arrangements available: Horizontal, Vertical, FreeForm. Horizontal and Vertical arrangements have limited options to simplify configuration. In the FreeForm arrangement, each icon can be individually moved and configured

• Dynamic Submenu configuration is now completely independent of the Main Menu configuration.
• The Title Panel can now be disabled from the layout configuration menu.

• Icon menu mode
  • Icon menu scrolling will wrap vertically when vertical wrap is enabled.
  • For single row icon menu, menu scrolling will wrap horizontally when horizontal wrapping is enabled.
• Fixed Focus menu mode
  • 3 arrangements available: Horizontal, Vertical, FreeForm. Horizontal and Vertical arrangements have limited options to simplify configuration. In the FreeForm arrangement, each icon can be individually moved and configured.
  • Options common to all arrangements
    • Selection Bars can be set to Folder View, Main Menu, and None
    • Number of Icons can be set from 1 to 10
    • Focused Icon selects which displayed icon will retain focus
    • Set Icon Positions opens a new popup menu where the relative position of each icon can be adjusted (vertical for the horizontal arrangement; horizontal for the vertical arrangement; position, scale, and opacity for each icon in FreeForm arrangement)
    • Nav Direction selects whether the icons will transition in the direction of an arrow press (Default) or opposite the direction of an arrow press (Reversed).
    • End Point Animation selects the animation style to be applied to the icons at the ends of the arrangement. Wrap causes the icon at one end to slide to the position at the opposite end. Note that only the wrap animation correctly maintains the transparency (for opacity < 1.0) of the icons during animation. This appears to be a bug in the core and may be fixed in the future.
    • Animation Style sets the timeline to be used for the animation. Quadratic is used by default. Available options are linear, quadratic, cubic, and bounce.
    • Animation length (ms) sets the duration of the animation in milliseconds.
    • Ripple Delay (ms) adds a cumulative delay to the menu transition animation for each icon. This results in a ripple or wave-like effect.
    • Show Text selects whether or not the text will be displayed along with the icon graphic in the menu icons.
    • Dbl Click Delay (ms) sets the time that the UI will wait for a second click/select to be performed before proceeding with the primary action. This is used to bring up the popup menus for 'My TV', 'My Music', and 'My Videos'.
  • Horizontal and Vertical arrangement options
    • Icon Size Min / Icon Size Max sets the relative size limits for the displayed icons. The focused icon always receives the maximum size and the icon farthest from the focused icon receives the minimum size. All others icons are linearly scaled between these limits.
    • Opacity Min / Opacity Max sets the relative opacity (transparency) limits for the displayed icons. The focused icon always receives the maximum opacity and the icon farthest from the focused icon receives the minimum opacity. All others icons are linearly scaled between these limits.
  • FreeForm arrangement options
    • Navigation Keys sets whether the up/down or left/right keys will trigger a menu transition.
• Text menu mode
  • Added animated transition to MCE style menu
• Layout Editing
  • Added layout import/export to configuration menu. (.layout files)
  • Added menu and object cloning in dynamic menu mode.
  • Added undo for object editing. (pressing undo will revert the object to its state when the configuration menu was first opened)
  • Added display of x position, y position, and scale to move/scale popup when moving all objects
  • Added Number listener to move/scale popups. Now when you press 1-9 it will cause the object to jump to that location on screen. (i.e. 1 = jump to upper left corner, 5 = jump to center, 8 = jump to bottom center, etc. Also, pressing 0 will set the scale to 1.0) The only place this works a bit differently is for the Fixed Focus Icon Menu. For that only buttons 5 and 0 are active. (The other numbers didn't work intuitively because of the way in which the icon positions are defined)

• When in Text/MCE menu mode, a new option is available to use the Fixed Focus icons (from the fixed focus menu mode above) as the displayed icons. The configuration is the same as when in the Fixed Focus menu mode, except that the 'focused' icon never actually receives focus. It just displays the icon associated with the focused item in the text menu. The animated icon transitions will occur whenever the selected menu item is changed. This mode can be used to approximate a 'Front Row'-like menu configuration.

• The Time and Date display can now be enabled/disabled, moved and scaled.

• The informational icons (Info/Conflict/Rec) have been separated from the Time/Date display. The icon group can now be moved and scaled.

• New objects have been added to display the four most recent recordings and the next four upcoming recordings as in the 'My TV' screen.
• The Recent and Upcoming Recordings objects can be separately moved and scaled.
• Only one recording is shown at a time to conserve real estate. Once the Recordings object is selected, the items can be scrolled into view.
• Pressing 'Select' jumps you to the Detailed Info screen for that recording.
• Pressing 'Options' brings up the same option menu available in the 'My TV' screen

• The Diskspace Bar can now be enabled/disabled, moved and scaled

• The Shudown icon now properly scales with screen size (available on the Main Menu only.)

• Added SageMC properties backup/restore buttons to SageMC Options >> Main (.sagemc files)
• Added automatic SageMC properties backup at application start and exit. (application_start_backup.sagemc and application_exit_backup.sagemc)
• Added a compatibility check at startup for Java, SageTV, and SageMC jar version
• Added display of aspect ratio mode in OSD
• Added video thumbnails in MyTV (can be disabled in MyTV options)
• Added 'ImportScript' theme property that allows theme designers to import and run STVi code when the theme gets loaded
• Added the ability to define a main menu item that will play all your music albums in random order. Add the following to your dynamic main menu file: