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| Topic: | Daniel's TSU7000 PCF is HERE!!!!! This thread has 109 replies. Displaying posts 61 through 75. |
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| Post 61 made on Monday August 29, 2005 at 09:03 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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Considering how this is basically a color version of my black and white file, I'm not sure why I'd want to convert it to black and white again...
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| Post 62 made on Monday August 29, 2005 at 13:57 |
NeilR Long Time Member |
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On 08/29/05 06:18 ET, Daniel Tonks said...
The channel buttons are fairly easy to do yourself
- there's a PSD file in the download just for
that. It has two layers, the blank background
and the reflection. Just find the TV logo you
want, cut it out from its background, resize appropriately,
paste it in the PSD file and move to behind the
reflection, then save as a PNG file.
I'm not really sure how to describe how to change
the Surf buttons. You could use the TEXT tool
in Photoshop to type in similar sized and colored
labels and then add the slight shadow behind them
(I'm sure you've noticed the selection bracket
is a separate element so you only really need
to create one version). One problem is some of
your words are too long: "ENTERTAINMENT" and "DOCUMENTARY"
will never fit in the allocated space, thus why
I used only short words like "FUN" and "LEARN"
- and ones slightly longer like MOVIES are pushing
it.
I could whip you up KIDS, SPORTS, SHOP, NEWS and
MUSIC though. Daniel that whould be much appreciated if you could, would save me a lot of time and effort. I will have a go at the channel logos myself. Thankyou once again.
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| Post 63 made on Monday August 29, 2005 at 15:14 |
Martin Clark Long Time Member |
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On 08/29/05 09:03 ET, Daniel Tonks said...
Considering how this is basically a color version
of my black and white file, I'm not sure why I'd
want to convert it to black and white again... Basically its because i love the way youve altered it to no longer need the home page, And the left right selection idea on each screen is nice, so in all it wasn't as daft a request as has been hinted at already, Obviously if its loads of work it isnt worth the effort. Thanks Daniel in any case i'm now trying to use your config to convince the wife to let me get a colour pronto.. lol..
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| Post 64 made on Monday August 29, 2005 at 16:28 |
Boarderbiker Long Time Member |
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Why worry about what the wife says? Do what you feel is right and let her sort out her feelings regarding it!!
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| Post 65 made on Monday August 29, 2005 at 23:42 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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It would take a lot of work to convert the color layout due to the transparency issue - and every single image uses alpha transparency. Or, if I have to come up with some other way to deal with transparencies, I would probably have to re-create about 1100 graphics from scratch (and right now I'm all graphic'd out!)
Besides for the tweaks to the top UI, the differences are mostly evolutionary refinements at any rate - the 3000 layout can work fine without a home page, or by just ignoring the Home button. I just took that concept a step further on the color layout.
And once you use a TSU7000 you'll wonder how you could ever see anything on the TSU3000! ;-)
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| Post 66 made on Monday August 29, 2005 at 23:45 |
Maddog1 Lurking Member |
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On 08/29/05 16:28 ET, Boarderbiker said...
Why worry about what the wife says? Do what you
feel is right and let her sort out her feelings
regarding it!! I admire your attitude! You must either be a bachelor or recently divorced.
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| Post 67 made on Tuesday August 30, 2005 at 02:20 |
Audioz Long Time Member |
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Daniel - any chance you can post a version for the Marantz RC9500? Iknow there is apparently a work around - but I am clearly a retard as I cant get it to work!
Any help appreciated.
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| Post 68 made on Tuesday August 30, 2005 at 05:08 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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The workaround is listed in the FAQ, but I do not recommend the use of my file with the RC9500 until Marantz releases their next software/firmware upgrade later this year. The current firmware version does not support custom system area font colors, so the status bar at the top will be black text on a black background, and the 4 hard button labels will be black text on a dark grey background.
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| Post 69 made on Tuesday August 30, 2005 at 06:05 |
King Ad Rock Long Time Member |
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Hi
I've just finished a hybrid version for the RC9500 that mixes the colorised frame of Daniel's TSU3000 PCF with all the new wizzy graphics Daniels done for the 7000. This is my workaround until Marantz issue the upgrade. I'll post it to Daniel today.
Cheers
Adam
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| Post 70 made on Wednesday August 31, 2005 at 09:48 |
randman Long Time Member |
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Daniel - one thing that many folks may find useful, particularly those who like the font styles that you used (and either can't replicate the same nice font styles that you used or are content with bitmap manipulation), is to provide the alphabet and numbers (A-Z, 0-9) that folks can use to assemble new red labels (24-bit versions) and new yellow surf buttons to their hearts' content.
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| Post 71 made on Saturday September 3, 2005 at 03:47 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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I'll be posting a new version this weekend... I've upped the number of surf categories from 5 to 15, so everything should be covered. I'll also likely just choose to upload the full 24-bit version of the file (it won't impact remote memory usage since everything is converted to 16-bit -- or obviously less -- when downloaded).
I'll also have a new micro-utility that may be useful to some folks.
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| Post 72 made on Saturday September 3, 2005 at 22:37 |
On 09/03/05 03:47 ET, Daniel Tonks said...
I'll be posting a new version this weekend...
I've upped the number of surf categories from
5 to 15, so everything should be covered. I'll
also likely just choose to upload the full 24-bit
version of the file (it won't impact remote memory
usage since everything is converted to 16-bit
-- or obviously less -- when downloaded).
I'll also have a new micro-utility that may be
useful to some folks. That would be really great. I've been having LOTS of problems with modifying the labels contained in your file, because as others have noted, they just open in Photoshop as 'black and red blobs'. Interestingly enough - even the 'details' view in Windows XP Explorer shows these images correctly! Grrr photoshop ;)
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| Post 73 made on Monday September 5, 2005 at 08:38 |
randman Long Time Member |
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Just downloaded version 1.0.3 of Daniel's PCF. Labels can now be opened okay in Photoshop. Thanks, Daniel!
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| Post 74 made on Monday September 5, 2005 at 10:36 |
Boarderbiker Long Time Member |
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Thanks Daniel. Once again, everyone here owes you, even if they don't realize it.
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| Post 75 made on Tuesday September 6, 2005 at 08:17 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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Glad things are editable now - it was a surprise to heat that PPENG was converting those images into such an obscure format. Although I'm even more surprised that Photoshop doesn't support the full PNG specification!
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