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auzy's avatar
auzy
Binge Watcher
16 years ago

Springboard Description text color

Hi,

I'm looking to set the color of the description/synopsis text in the springboard screen, because the default color doesn't pop very well against the background color I want to use.

I'm setting it basically as follows:
theme = CreateObject("roAssociativeArray")
theme.SpringboardSynopsisText       =  "#707070"
setThemeDark(theme)


However, it seems the color only takes effect if on the springboard screen I set the set the description style to "video".
screen.SetDescriptionStyle("video")


If I set the description style to movie, the color doesn't take effect. (I've only considered "movie" and "video" so far)
screen.SetDescriptionStyle("movie")


I was planning to use the "movie" style so that I could also get the HD graphic on the springboard page, which looks like it's not included when the style is "video". Is there a way to get the best of both worlds? i.e. Custom description text color and HD indicator?
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5 Replies

  • dynamitemedia's avatar
    dynamitemedia
    Binge Watcher
    15 years ago
    yes i am having this same issue and have tried the following and i am using 

    screen.SetDescriptionStyle("video")

    also tried with "generic" and "movie"

    and the following i tried all combos but its still not changing the color

        theme.EpisodeSynopsisText  = "#000000"
        theme.EpisodeSynopsisColorText  = "#000000"
        theme.EpisodeSynopsisTextColor  = "#000000"

        theme.SpringboardSynopsisColorText  = "#000000"
        theme.SpringboardSynopsisText  = "#000000"
        theme.SpringboardSynopsisTextColor  = "#000000"


    its a very faint greyish blue color which doesn't show up on our grey background.

    I see that the Koldcast channel has is white and the rest the Bluish color. so i know its possible.

    Chris if that is your channel can you tell us how you did that? i thought i read you did the KoldCast channel
  • auzy's avatar
    auzy
    Binge Watcher
    15 years ago
    bittersweet to know it may not just be me 🙂 I haven't found a solution yet. One would think the "SpringboardSynopsisColorText" shouldn't be dependent on the "SetDescriptionStyle" (read: layout) setting, ideally, but if it is then maybe it can be updated in the future. Hopefully there's a workaround in the current release though!
  • RokuChris's avatar
    RokuChris
    Roku Employee
    15 years ago
    See if you have any better luck with theme.SpringboardSynopsisColor
  • dynamitemedia's avatar
    dynamitemedia
    Binge Watcher
    15 years ago
    thanks Chris how the heck i missed that is ridiculous! i had every combo but that

    EDIT: but still no luck on the genre and runtime...
  • dynamitemedia's avatar
    dynamitemedia
    Binge Watcher
    15 years ago
    I was able to get the Runtime working as well

    using

    theme.SpringboardRuntimeColor = "#000000"


    and the problem i had was not Genre but I actually had changed "actors" to show the Genre instead. like MMA or Boxing

    just some silly oversights