exclude buttons?

[gavpayne]

hey all..

can i make a skin and leave out control buttons (ie.. the eject button')?

i know this is possible with winamp 3 (through xml)... what about winamp 2?

gav.

[flatmatt]

Yes. You can either crop the biutmap to not include the buttons you don't want (in some cases), or else you can simply copy the background to the file for the buttons. The buttons can still be pressed, but there will be no visual indication of it. Note that winamp.com does not publish skins without cbuttons (meaning the buttons in cbuttons.bmp: previous, play, pause, stop, next, eject).

[dlinkwit27]

yes. you can also make a skin without the top half. <see attachment> (not made by me, i forget where I got it)

[Ned Decca]

why only make half a skin????

[StillWater]

I've left out the eject button in skins of mine before (in "Zima", at least). Obviously, some people use it, but for me personally, it's the most useless thing about winamp. I didn't skin it to make the skin less cluttered, but I included a second version of cbuttons.bmp which had the eject button skinned, and gave instructions in the notes on how to activate it. Maybe that's what you might want to do.

[dlinkwit27]

Originally posted by Ned Decca
why only make half a skin????

to take up less space. it's like a bigger stick mode :)

[LuigiHann]

Originally posted by dlinkwit27
to take up less space. it's like a bigger stick mode :)

That half-skin looks really good in the right layout. (I put a screenshot if people are dubious of downloading it.) If they had put sliders on their eq-winshade volume and balance, I'd call it perfect. I may consider a layout like that sometime, it's cool...

[dlinkwit27]

sry for the thread de-railment, but here is a link to other colours of that same skin. it also has screenies.

http://www.customize.org/details/28559
also
http://www.customize.org/details/28512

btw, it is made by status, the same status as the one who started a skin over in the WA3 section.

[status]

same status who was afraid to post it here or submit it to winamp.com because people are picky about his notorious habit of cropping stuff... ;)

[skinme!]

The ideas neat. The skins are little washed out though...

[status]

they're part of a suite, take it up with the rest of the artists involved. :P

[LuigiHann]

I like it. Would you be terribly offended, status, if I tried to make a skin with similar transparency? I'd credit you with the idea, of course, but I'd probably do some bizzare things with it...

[Krynis]

heh i love to see threads get this utterly derailed so fast

[LuigiHann]

Originally posted by Krynis
heh i love to see threads get this utterly derailed so fast
Whattaya mean "derailed"? I'm definately still talking about ... buttons. :D Check out my little "experiment" with that region idea. Isn't it cute? Stack it Main(full) on top of pl(winshade) on top of EQ(either mode);)

[status]

great work dude, that's really cute. :D

and of course i don't mind, anything really cool i do leads to copycats, so somebody actually ASKING first is kinda flattering...

...a nod in the submission credits would be nice tho'. ;)

[amano]

wow, luigi hann, kirby is a great skin. I want to see more half skins!!!