Adding Spice to the Time Section in Kodi

KODI SKINNING HELP TUTORIALS Adding Spice to the Time Section in Kodi

Hello again,  I am back with another Kodi Tutorial this Time its about Time. This tutorial will cover Adding Spice to the Time Section in Kodi.

 

We are going to mess about with the clock and add a little spice to it (ie give it a little Border).

 

Along with Damo, I have been blogging these new Kodi skinning tutorials for a week or so with more to come. If you have missed any of the previous ones you can view them below.

 

 

View Kodi Skinning Tuorials here.

 

 

Adding Spice to the Time Section in Kodi.

Ok, lets go peeps, where did we get to? we got as far as

Adding Spice to the Time Section in Kodi

 

So now we are going to have a play with the Time/Date section at the moment it looks like this.

Adding Spice to the Time Section in Kodi

 

Everything I am doing is all about personal preference, so its all about choice.

What I will do is move the time to the center of the menu bar and put some border around it.

If you have followed from the beginning you will know what tools we need. So lets go and open the Home.xml in Notepad++

First we will deal the the Time/Date.

You will find it on line 139ish

2

The 2 tags as we should be familiar with now are <width> and <height> which is normal and we have to change them.

 

Mine will look like this.

5

 

You will notice in that code you can actually Change the Color/Shadow etc But i will cover that later in a different .xml file.

Don’t forget to SAVE in Notepad++ and USE your Task Manager to CLOSE Kodi if it was open.

 

So what i am left with is this.

Adding Spice to the Time Section in Kodi

So the Time/Date is in the center of the screen which is what i was looking for.

 

Now i want to do away with the Grey bar it sits in so for that we need this bit of the Home.xml.

Adding Spice to the Time Section in Kodi

So after changing the submenu_bar.png tag to what your .png is called in my case it is highlight.png

And the changing the values till your satisfied. These are my changes.

 

You will notice that i added a <top> and a <left> tag this just gives you more manipulation and control of what you are trying to achieve.

Adding Spice to the Time Section in Kodi

And here is the end result.

 

But if you look real close to the right you will notice that we still have the submenu_end.png on the screen?

Adding Spice to the Time Section in Kodi

 

As i have mentioned in my Sub Menu Tutorial you can tackle this in 2 ways.

 

1 . You can delete the submenu_end.png so you end up with

Adding Spice to the Time Section in Kodi

 

That will remove it from your Build.

Adding Spice to the Time Section in Kodi

 

2 . Or you can replace it with another .png which i chose to do with these lines and a wookie3d.png. and a <top> tag added.

 

This is the final string.

Adding Spice to the Time Section in Kodi

 

TIP – Have you noticed in Line 29 it has <top>-85</top>

That is because if you had a Value of lets say “100” that would be Low if you were to drop the “100” to “50” that would raise the .png on the screen.

So if the tag reads <top>0</top> you might think that you have reached your limit on lifting the .png

BUT NO by putting a in front of the Value it will lift it up even more.

 

So this is the End result of our Time and Date Tutorial.

Adding Spice to the Time Section in Kodi

 

So there you have it.

Hope you have enjoyed this Tutorial and keep following for the rest of the Kodi Skinning tutorials to do a Complete Build..

Have fun playing about.

 

As i have said many times its all Trial and Error.

The Next Tutorial we will be sorting out the RSS feed bar.

Until next Time

Till next time. Be Good.

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