Upstand

[mike-db]

Ok this is countinued from that thread about a useful idea or somthin like that.. Anyway here is the skin and this is all I got.
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/9247/temp9qh.png
But I was thinking of a "big" mode for the skin sort of like in FLO just so that the skin could be usfull to every body.

[skryingbreath]

Looking good so far :)
I like things a little dark, this is what i came up with;

[mike-db]

Cool We will probably use tha one :)

[Foxw]

:up: :down:

http://forums.winamp.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=1800709

[skryingbreath]

the buttons are a nice touch. Im not sure about the texture though :)
*Just IMO

[LuigiHann]

Oooh. You should put all 3 versions into the skin :blah: It could be one of those multi-textured-single-coded skins. Those are always cool.

[Foxw]

it was 2 min futzing... hehe the texture just one of my standards i call "ugly form"

^_^

[SLoB]

check the idea thread guys for a workaround ;)

[mike-db]

Maybe we could do what lugi said that would be cool, now useing skry's example I think this is what we should do for the ticker. (right click on winamp and open "ticker") but insted of right click I want to make it so that when you clikc the "ticker" button it opens this new window.

[hammerhead]

looks very similar to the xp taskbar

[skryingbreath]

Originally posted by mikwiththestick
Maybe we could do what lugi said that would be cool, now useing skry's example I think this is what we should do for the ticker. (right click on winamp and open "ticker") but insted of right click I want to make it so that when you clikc the "ticker" button it opens this new window.

:) That would be badassed :). If you want i can send you the .psd so you dont have to cut and paste ;)

[mike-db]

I can't read .psd files Yo;) im hard core MSPaint.

[skryingbreath]

Originally posted by mikwiththestick
I can't read .psd files Yo;) im hard core MSPaint.
http://forum.web-nuts.com/images/smiles/lmao.jpg
That's great :) Well are we going to use the one i posted? or have like 9 different subskins for the skin?

[mike-db]

Lets see em' all I got a couple more ideas but not much.

[Michgelsen]

Have you finished your previous skin yet?

[skryingbreath]

Originally posted by Michgelsen
Have you finished your previous skin yet?

Me? no. :D

[SLoB]

Originally posted by mikwiththestick
Maybe we could do what lugi said that would be cool, now useing skry's example I think this is what we should do for the ticker. (right click on winamp and open "ticker") but insted of right click I want to make it so that when you clikc the "ticker" button it opens this new window.

no need, in case ya havnt checked the idea thread, a workaround for the vertical songticker is there, also gonna post that in the maki thread so its available to everyone and not buried in a post

all u need to do is create a bitmap font with the letters rotated to which suits the orientation you want to implement if you dont want vertical text

as for the timer, it works on a same principle see UULs iCube skin

[mike-db]

Thanks, Michgelsen are you talking about xonix me and skry are working on that one sort of 2 skins at a time is cool.

[skryingbreath]

Lol, dude...I have so many projects going on :D You should see my WIP dir, it's crazy as hell! but i dont mind another project :D :D...Just gives me an excuse to not work on other ones :D

[mike-db]

Well have we really decided on what we are going to do and are we gonna start or just sit here saying what we are gonna do?

[skryingbreath]

Youre the boss :)

Which image do you want to use, I'll start coding it :)

[Michgelsen]

Hehehe ok so you (two?) are still working on all of them, that's clear now. I wasn't sure which project you might have abandoned and which one was still in progress. I'm looking forward to seeing the first one finished! ;)

[skryingbreath]

http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/forums/images/icons/LOL.gif

[GH0STce11]

Ok,
these look sweet.

and as someone said, it kind of looks like the xp taskbar. that's where i kinda got the idea for this.

another idea on top of making a new 'upstand' skin, would be to make a mod for the default modern skin that adds the upstand windowshade mode....just a thought

[skryingbreath]

Originally posted by GH0STce11
Ok,
these look sweet.

and as someone said, it kind of looks like the xp taskbar. that's where i kinda got the idea for this.

another idea on top of making a new 'upstand' skin, would be to make a mod for the default modern skin that adds the upstand windowshade mode....just a thought

Hmm :-\ Idk about anyone else bit i dont really like taking someone else's graphics and just switching 'em up. I'd like the skin to be 100% origional and different :D

[mike-db]

:D lets use yours as the 'default' then see if it possible to ether make a "image uploader" for the background of the skin and if possible a "image uploader" for all the buttons Or see if we could make a "multi textured" skin :D

[skryingbreath]

OK. I'm taking this from a skin im making and just flipping it sideways :D It looks decent. Tell me what you think, then i will start scratching the coding monkey in me :)

EDIT; I've started coding it :)

[mike-db]

Looking good. :D

[skryingbreath]

Giggity :)

The vertitext was pissing me off. If anyone could help put it into it it would help alot :)
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/9228/untitled12ip.jpg

buggy prealphas rule!

[mike-db]

This is looking great! Let me make some colour themes to! also Im going to code the "Big mode" for it ok?

[skryingbreath]

Originally posted by mikwiththestick
This is looking great! Let me make some colour themes to! also Im going to code the "Big mode" for it ok?

No problemo :)

[SLoB]

all u need to do is practically copy and paste the applicable code bits from vertitext, its a basic example and no harder to add than what uve already put in

the harder part will be creating a bitmap font with a top to bottom or vice versa read, with that i was planning at some point to create a PS action or script to create a bitmap font which all the user has to do is input the font size, font type and spacings and it would create it as they can be a time consuming job
the best way to ensure you could rotate the letters is to create each letter individually so it has its own set space within the image already then just rotate to orientation needed

[skryingbreath]

Slob, I tried doing that but i got Null lines like crazy >.<;

[SLoB]

to get you started with the songticker
substituted font with yer ttf, recommend creating bitmap fonts for diff orientation

also added 2 more chars in there so the songticker area is filled
http://www.slob.org.uk/wa5/1_upstand_withvertitext.wal

timer works on a similar concept, checkout UULs iCube for a timer workaround, just bosh the x value as x="0" y="??" for timer characters to line them up

its real easy, one day we might hope for rotation/orientation on the text object for songtickers ;)

[skryingbreath]

:o Thank you for doing that :) That definitelly lifts a load :D

[billyvnilly]

it would be cool if this skin behaved like corneramp, only for sides (skin for docking top/bottom and a skin for docking left/right) I dont know how hard that would be to work out though.


its a very nice skin btw, i can see myself using this.

[dlinkwit27]

the latest version looks good layout wise (and it doesnt have the dreadful bevels the first few did), but its too dark. I cant read anything on it.

[skryingbreath]

Originally posted by dlinkwit27
the latest version looks good layout wise (and it doesnt have the dreadful bevels the first few did), but its too dark. I cant read anything on it.

Well, that's the beauty of colour themes! :D

it would be cool if this skin behaved like corneramp, only for sides (skin for docking top/bottom and a skin for docking left/right) I dont know how hard that would be to work out though.
That would be cool. But i think getting the main layout(s) done is first priority :)

[mike-db]

Ok I think we should make a "options" window for the reason of brightness, I know there are coloure themes but if on someones monitor they are all to dark? There sohuld be a options window so that the user can control to brightness of the skin on any colour theme.

[skryingbreath]

Quick question :)

Is it possible for the 'vis' to go horizontal as well? so that it is like:

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[mike-db]

Hey! that would be sweet and we could make the skin resizable so that the vis could "disapper" if the user did not want it?

[SLoB]

quick bug fix on the vertitext ;)

bosh this in function UpdateSong after the variable iStrnglnght is declared

what this does is replace the remaining characters with a blank space if the track name is shorter than the amount of character positions declared in the skin, replace 17 with the amount of declared positions in group SongtickerGrp
if you dont bosh this in then the last character is present in the remaining spaces


//if track name is less than declared positions, blank rest of string as last char shows if this is not updated
if(iStrnglnght<17)
{
//16 spaces in replace string, track name could be 1 char
Temp = Temp + strmid(" ", 1, (17-iStrnglnght));
}

[mike-db]

Lol im stupid, Whats wroung?!?

[SLoB]

load up an mp3 with a name less than 14 chars, just rename an existing file with say blah.mp3, play that file and look at the songticker, the remaining character spaces are not blank but inherit the last character which in this case would b "h"
the above code just replaces the filename with blank spaces in the songticker so that it looks as it should
just need to replace the number 17 with however many text objects are setup in the songtickergrp and one less spaces in the string as potentially a filename could be 1 char
and recompile

it does this in iCube also ;) but the above fix works

[mike-db]

Ok thanks.

[mike-db]

Hey skry what else are we going to do for this? I have some Ideas but they are small.

[skryingbreath]

Originally posted by mikwiththestick
Hey skry what else are we going to do for this? I have some Ideas but they are small.

I'm kinda tapped out, I only have like 2 graphical ideas for this. Werent you going to code the Big Mode? :blah: :igor:

[mike-db]

Lol Yea but You need to make the graphics for it all I suck so much.

[mike-db]

skry have you finished any graphics for this yet?

[skryingbreath]

Oh shit! Dude, I forgot about this.. :-\

I swear, After christmas I will start and if they don't arrive at your front doorstep a week or so after new years you can have my first born :)

[mike-db]

YES, I will sacrifice the new born to... um its ok I don't need your ne born just hurry man!!

[billyvnilly]

I really like the idea of the vertical text...cant wait to see a finished product.

[skryingbreath]

Ok, I got bored and started again.

What say you to this mick?

[mike-db]

Thats pretty sweet shit lets use that :p

Edit/ NAh lets just sitck with the old design.

[skryingbreath]

Heh, the thing about the old design....I have not the psds for it and I dont feel like designing the old style. So yer stuck with this one :p

[mike-db]

Lol ok im sure we could work wiht it.

[Strahan]

I was asking about something like this in another thread.. if someone could make this:

http://cityservices.baltimorecity.gov/moit/ken/winamp_c.jpg

It'd be worth $20 to me :) Don't even need to display text on it, just the controls.

[SLoB]

dont mean to hijack the thread ;) but checkout the beta version of walpha, it has 4 modes 1 of which is a vertical stick mode, also has 3 font modes to show songticker in various orientations ;)

i'll gladly accept $20 ;) heheh

[skryingbreath]

I don't care if you hijack the thread. This kinda died a long time ago. I've got too much going on and a zillion other skins to finish and this was just a concept thrown up in the air.

Anyone else wants to take it up with Mik, go ahead.

[mike-db]

yea im working on it sorta... not really since my computer crashed I lost all my skins and shit.

[billyvnilly]

I dont think this is ever gonna get finished.

@slob, start a thread for Walpha please, i couldnt find it because it was in the middle of the alpine thread.

[skryingbreath]

I made something from this script slob made and in the same general idea of this thread.
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/9492/stickbuild2byskryingbreath6yd.th.jpg (http://img294.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stickbuild2byskryingbreath6yd.jpg)
Download (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/31172756/)