Cheesey Productions Presents: IRIDIUM

[evewatchesstuff 1]

This is phenomenal looking. I've been poking around at building an alternative frontend for emby but this really looks impressive, especially since it seems quite customizable. 

Would love to get involved in testing this. Dropped you a PM

[Cheesegeezer 3096]

25 minutes ago, evewatchesstuff said:

This is phenomenal looking. I've been poking around at building an alternative frontend for emby but this really looks impressive, especially since it seems quite customizable. 

Would love to get involved in testing this. Dropped you a PM

Doooood if you wanna team up and build together then we can do it. My JS is shocking but I’m learning.

 

thanks for the kind words, i really wanna get this out at some point. I had December in my head but thats just simply not achievable lol  

[Locutus64 124]

@evewatchesstuff, he means December 3022. 

Edited November 9, 2022 by Locutus64

[Cheesegeezer 3096]

So, i've completely changed the programming language now. I've moved away from Web Development and I'm using .Net MAUI now.  Which is a great for x platform development.  Its still very new platform and has it's limitiations but I think that in the next 6 months it's gonna be pretty well rounded and feature rich.

It makes sense to me because i can deploy on android, android TV, iOS, MacOs and Windows Desktop.  

I'm still figuring a lot of stuff out but the basics are there and it's pleasant to work with, quite similar to WMC MVVM structure so i'm feeling quite at home.

Routing is bliss!! Templating is also great so and i can write in c# which reduces my learning curve massively.

 

Anyway i looks very similar to the Javascript version i was working on and i'm certainly happy with it so far.

 

Datagram is sent over the local network to find local servers

Select Users and then you have the option to stay signed in

 

[Cheesegeezer 3096]

Android

 

 

[chef 3804]

Man oh man that is beautiful 

[cassete 10]

Excelent

[Cheesegeezer 3096]

that was a lot of work refactoring.

I really love the look Now, need to add in indicators on the top menu and thinking of a clean blue underline to show which tab is currently selected.

 

Scrollable Main View that doesnt hinder the side or top menus

4K MOVIES

Comedy

 

i still need to add an imageFactory to cator for different scenarios. 
 

frickin lush tho… and it really loves a 4k display 

[arrbee99 1683]

Very nice. Makes a change from the lets just copy Apple thing...

[Locutus64 124]

Maybe a mouseover effect(color) instead of a line to give it a smoother look?

[sydlexius 262]

@CheesegeezerWhat's up with the kerning of the text for section headers such as "NEW ADDITIONS"?  It seems to be the glyph for I that is broken in particular.

Edited December 1, 2022 by sydlexius
Found more instances of kerning issues...

[Cheesegeezer 3096]

15 minutes ago, sydlexius said:

@CheesegeezerWhat's up with the kerning of the text for section headers such as "NEW ADDITIONS"?  It seems to be the glyph for I that is broken in particular.

Its fixed width font

Future fixed-width from Dafont.com

it was in the WMC version of this! 

[Cheesegeezer 3096]

@Luke have a question chief?

what is the deal with desktop implementation in WPF, Xamarin or MAUI, JS or anything these days and the lack of native KeyboardInputCommand implementation? 
 

Do you have anything saved from the original WPF MBT that i can steal? As a boiler plate i can integrate. 

we are just assumed that we are all swipey swipey devs. It’s a lot of work. 
 

MAUI is shocking for keyboard interaction, the have Semantic classes which is similar to Aria in JS. But ooooft its hard work and they removed the useful from Xamarin in Maui! 
 

cheers bud
 

 

[sydlexius 262]

5 minutes ago, Cheesegeezer said:

Its fixed width font

Future fixed-width from Dafont.com

it was in the WMC version of this! 

Understood.  Regardless, it visually stands out to pedants such as myself   I have plenty of fixed width fonts that I use that are properly kerned.  What they all seem to have in common is they're either full- or semi-serif fonts (typically full serif for uppercase).  I've yet to see a complete sans-serif monospace font that looked good.

[Cheesegeezer 3096]

Anyone interested here is some good screenies from the original release back in 2015 for WMC(god rest her soul - i miss it so much)

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/17620-iridium-a-new-mbc-theme-coming-soon/&do=findComment&comment=184451

 

[Cheesegeezer 3096]

2 minutes ago, sydlexius said:

Understood.  Regardless, it visually stands out to pedants such as myself   I have plenty of fixed width fonts that I use that are properly kerned.  What they all seem to have in common is they're either full- or semi-serif fonts (typically full serif for uppercase).  I've yet to see a complete sans-serif monospace font that looked good.

You have options to set your own fonts for titles, taglines, synopsis, etc 

dinnae worry pal

[sydlexius 262]

Just now, Cheesegeezer said:

You have options to set your own fonts for titles, taglines, synopsis, etc 

dinnae worry pal

FYI, that font is properly kerned in WMC 

[Cheesegeezer 3096]

1 minute ago, sydlexius said:

FYI, that font is properly kerned in WMC 

I did muck about with CharacterSpacing in Maui and it looks  

joys of learning new code environments lol  

[Cheesegeezer 3096]

Its the “I”’s that make it look poo  

[Cheesegeezer 3096]

4 minutes ago, sydlexius said:

FYI, that font is properly kerned in WMC 

Actually do you have any good UI fonts that pop and look super clean? I also notice in MAUI that it really pixilates the not native fonts.

 

[sydlexius 262]

1 minute ago, Cheesegeezer said:

Its the “I”’s that make it look poo  

I need some reading glasses or something.  Now that I look at it, its kerning is off a bit too.  Not having much of a knack for JS/CSS, I assume there's a way to toy with it?

[Cheesegeezer 3096]

1 minute ago, sydlexius said:

I need some reading glasses or something.  Now that I look at it, its kerning is off a bit too.  Not having much of a knack for JS/CSS, I assume there's a way to toy with it?

This is XAML and C# code behind.

MVVM

not JS any more thank god!!

Edited December 1, 2022 by Cheesegeezer

[sydlexius 262]

1 minute ago, Cheesegeezer said:

This is XAML and C# code behind.

MVVM

not JS any more thank god!!

Got it!  I'd love to play around more with XAML to replace some of my PowerShell forms, but without external modules it's horrible to implement...even with some of the modules out there it's still no fun.  There's subscription-licensed tools like PowerShell Pro, and perhaps I could give those a try.

[Cheesegeezer 3096]

3 minutes ago, sydlexius said:

Got it!  I'd love to play around more with XAML to replace some of my PowerShell forms, but without external modules it's horrible to implement...even with some of the modules out there it's still no fun.  There's subscription-licensed tools like PowerShell Pro, and perhaps I could give those a try.

Yup XAML is actually pretty good, android uses it, windows, etc, but its a standard like an xml file so it makes sense to use something that is and will be constantly supported. 

[Cheesegeezer 3096]

Been working on a cool feature.

Added in a custom api function to allow users to create their own RAL lists to the home screen.

This will let the user chose what they want for every library to be shown.

 

Home screen with size menu implemented.

expand the menu and then choose the Custom Library option

then play with the options

most calls will require a userId and an apiKey, the json option allow for the couple of scenarios where the Json return isn't wrapped in an Items: array

 

Tested without json on return an empty array

Test Ran with Json turned on - Returns my custom api call to get top rated items.