new skin/vertical volbar problem

[drwho9437]

Since I was having quite a few problem makeing my other skin in the way I would like (I will probobly have to use a bunch of drawers), I decided to wip up another skin based on the same colors. Here is a pic:
http://wam.umd.edu/~bryceb/tga.jpg

The only problem I am having is the vertical volume bar doesn't remember its position or rather it inverts it. If you move it to the top, close and reopen it is at the bottom. The volume remains unchanged. If you close and reopen again it stays at the bottom. So it only inverts the slider if you move it. (3/4 up makes it 3/4 down etc.) If anyone wants to help me with this I would be greatful. Just download the attached zip to look at what I did.

Also my .wals never seem to work. I zip up just the contents of my skin folder and save with the extention "wal" I have winamp pick that skin and it won't show the player everything else but the player.

[Naamloos]

It's a bug i have it in one of my skin im working at too :)

[mark e]

Wow, cool :cool:

[drwho9437]

Here is a new version of the skin added a readme, skinshot and changed the vis to nonstandard. Pic at top of post reflects the changes.

[Gonzotek]

Drwho, What are you using to zip the file? Winamp doesn't like files that have been zipped with "max compression", and I think that by default, WinZip (the most popular windows zip tool) uses max compression. I don't know what Zipped Folders uses under Windows ME and above. I used to recommend Power Archiver, because it was powerful and free, but it is no longer free :(.

Just trying to help, I might be way off on this one :)

-=Gonzotek=-

[drwho9437]

I think I even tried it on none but that didn't work either.

[Gonzotek]

Another thought:

You could provide your skin in an NSIS installer. BlueKeyDesign and I were throwing out some ideas for NSIS in another thread, relating to winamp3 skins, but it's easy enough to pacakge up the skin folder and let the user install it. I'll make one for you, if you'd like :)

-=Gonzotek=-

[drwho9437]

Thanks but maybe when it is done. I'm working on the eq at the moment. Then playlist, then I don't know what.

[Gonzotek]

That's fine, but if you install NSIS, I can send you the script that makes the installer and it will work through the different versions, picking up new files and whatnot automatically. Then you just need to right-click on the script in explorer and "Compile NSI" whenever you feel you have a version that you want the public to see. It's fine with me if you just feel like waiting, but I already have the script worked out, so it really isn't any trouble at all. Makes distributing a whole lot easier for newbies and whatnot.

I guess if you aren't going to release a bunch of "beta" versions of the skin, there's no point in doing all that.

BTW, I haven't mentioned yet, that I like your design, and can't wait to have the full skin. VERY USEFUL!!!

One small suggestion: There is very little room to grab the skin to drag it around...maybe you could denote a "drag" area just below the volume, or somewhere else?

Thanks,
-=Gonzotek=-

[drwho9437]

Here is a picture of the most recent changes:


They are shading on the background, button colors changed, eq complete except of the vis color problem as per my other post.

I'm working on the studio files now. Colors are all done but the buttons and positions need work and I need help on this as per my other other post.http://wam.umd.edu/~bryceb/tga2.jpg

[-[WonderBlood]-]

Cool, I want it. NOW!!! :cool:

[Naamloos]

Maybe you should change the colors and of the vis/font etc to fit the rest of the skin...

[drwho9437]

noname what do you mean the title bar and the blue vis or what?

[Naamloos]

Blue vis, blue font and the purple status

[drwho9437]

So you recomend blue title, blue vis, blue time, and the play, pause, stop to be purple?

Is that right?

[drwho9437]

I am still strugling with the studio stuff. There doesn't seem to be ways to eliminate or change certain items. (For instance I want the fonts in the pl to be smaller to match the other part of the skin.)

Here is another status update picture:
http://wam.umd.edu/~bryceb/tga3.jpg

[YtseJam]

Hrm... Sorry for this useless post, but... humpf humpf, you got SR-71 in your PL. kewlio...

[Plague]

Very nice skin man!

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So you recomend blue title, blue vis, blue time, and the play, pause, stop to be purple?
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I think he meant that those things could be set to other colors that better match the skin...

[drwho9437]

My mp3s are things that aren't worth buying on CD or that I lisson to constantly SR-71 falls into the former catagory. Catchy on occation.

[drwho9437]

What colors would you recomend then. (I am red green color blind so color selection is not my forte)

[Naamloos]

Aw man that sucks :(

Something like your ML font color (or PL)

[drwho9437]

So like this?
http://wam.umd.edu/~bryceb/tga5.jpg

[Naamloos]

Yeah I think that looks much better :)

[drwho9437]

I kinda liked the blue but this is good too probobly most people will like it more so I will change it over. If I find some time, I will skin the thinger this week and release a complete (if buggy (read vertical vol bar/eq vis problems)) version of the skin.

[drwho9437]

Still incomplete but due to the high number of downloads of the previous two zips which are horrably out of date here is a new one.

You'll need to unzip it to get it to work.

[drwho9437]

Here is a screen shot update.
http://wam.umd.edu/~bryceb/tga10.jpg

I still can't get the wal files to work though. Any tips?

[drwho9437]

Here is a zip of the version above. You'll have to extract it to get it to work.

[omarello]

very nice skin, i like the red and blue one though, and if you could make the pl text a bit smaller it would be gr8. very nice, i love it.:D

[drwho9437]

The people spoke on the red and blue. I will make the pl text smaller once it is possable. I don't think it is for now, beta 2 as I recall. Thanks for your comments.

[drwho9437]

Please go to this thread from now on...
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=65399