Calling all skinners WA2.9 is here.
 

Yes, in case you don't go into GD, you can now pick up WA2.9 from here.

http://www.nullsoft.com/cookie

Read more about it here.

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=129231

Attached is a quick zip of the extra bitmaps you will now need to make your skins compatiable with the new windows, plus a bit of a text file telling you how the gen.bmp/genex.bmp works.

Please bear in mind that...

These skin specifications are subject to change, so don't distribute any new skins that widely.

Questions...

hmm....interesting

[akura] fully supports it now..

do i get a cookie mr jones?

fun, fun, more stuff to skin

Of course, I'm sure everything is just speculative right now, but is there a general idea as to when the beta phase will be over? ie. I'll probably want to update most of my skins all at once, and won't want to have to change them once I do. Any ideas when it will be 'safe' to start updating without worrying about the requirements changing?

found some skinning bugs, don't know where to put them.
1. the ml window stretches the sliders. this is crap if you want any fine detail on them. even gradients can look awful.
2. my ml window title goes...nasty, the font looks fine in gen.bmp, but seems to be all squished together in use
3. the ml, in the bottom part, can't the centre be a tile, not a single pixel colour? or have i got something wrong?
4. no pixelshift bugs. please put some in, skinning is annoying without them :)

db - i assume it is safe for us to skin them, after we weren't allowed them until now because they could change. but hopefully my bugs will be taken care of :)

Nope, no idea,wa2.90 should be out next week, 2.91 shortly after that, then who knows.

I've taken the view of preparing the ground already by updating to the new windows, way I see it , any future changes may only be minimal, so won't require much of a change from what it is now.

Example. The video skin, up to this beta release, had no controls other than full screen, but it's only taken a few minutes for each skin to add them in.

I think for now i'm only going to update gamusion and after midnight. Will wait until the final release to decide if i'll do the others.

wao ! I'm starting to understand Winamp 2.8X, more stuff to
know :p, good work guys ! :up:

oh no, not more crap to skin!:p

oh well, it's not like I ever finish a skin anyway, why am I complaining

Yeah I know, but that was the only right solution for having the little thing in the middle of the sliders to appear right. Anybody has a better suggestion for the sliders?

-Christophe

Swe---et it comes with a lite :P

I've just played around with the Media Library, and I like it. Winamp just got way better :):up:

but:

-why does the vertical strip that separates the two subwindows in the ML have to be skinned the way it is (by choosing the colours but not being able to change its actual design)? Why can't it be skinned like the outside borders, allowing the skinner to customise the ML more holistically?

-The stretching sliders will probably be a bit of a pain to skin - not very flexible and they'll have to look very similar on every skin (pretty boring). Why can't they just work similarly to how the slider in the PL works?

-Is there any way to change the font used in the left-hand subwindow and the buttons on the bottom?



-you've added cursor support for the MB and AVS :)

Because their size change (better UI response, Windows like) and the PL's one doesn't (BAD :) )

-Christophe

Hrmmm, my Winamp just quit. All I did was open AVS, resize it, and task switch over to here. Dammit!

AVS skin... All... Gone.

Whoa, this is cool. I've already killed the title and made the middle section as narrow as possible by making all the letters 1 pixel wide matching the background color. :)

Hey, what's this blue square under the lower-right resize on gen.bmp do anyway? I can't figure it out...

I must stop adding posts all in a row... But this one has an attachment, and I'll leave off my sig. So ha!

Anyway, too bad a couple things aren't customizable, i.e. dropdown scrollbars, selections in ML (Hint for release version?).

Anyway, here's the new Redefine library...

Anyone have the defaualt bitmap for the new vis plugin in WA 2.9?
I have checked the winamp.exe and the vis_avs.dll and can't find any bitmaps that would be asociated.

It uses the new gen.bmp file to make the frame.

Thanx.

OK, I like this version so far. I haven't looked at how to skin it yet. What happened to the whole WA5 thing or am I jumping ahead of myself?

Your jumping ahead, Codename WA5 will be sometime late summer (read summer 2005 probably :D )

k. I'm happy now. Winamp 2.9beta is good and not convoluted yet.

Is there a thread for suggestions? Well here's one: a video-window-only Always-On-Top mode. That means that no matter how many Winamp wins you have open (eq,pl,ml,main,etc.) you can set it to only show the video window on top (of all other programs).

Prog suggestions are probably best in the GD thread I linked to up top, skin ones probably in here, as you guys are skinning it, I see Christophe has checked in here , so I guess he is aware of it.

If you have something that you feel is worth mentioning, bugs , suggestions etc etc, I can always forward it onto the beta mail list.

Could you forward my thing then? Thankee.

// I'll post it in the GD thread as well.

// Now they tell me the EQ's range is +_ 12Db (not 20Db) grrrrrrrrrr

// no wait -- that's the new EQ. ignore me, i am but an idiot.

yeah, it would be better (certainly for the kind of skins I like to make) if the ML could be completely skinnable. The flat colour of the scrollbars, column headers and buttons doesn't match easily with the skinned areas.

I wonder what happens if you crop the bitmap to exclude the the letters?

I can't figure that one either. Hasn't Jellby got it mapped out yet? :weird: ;)

I'm occasionally having some display problems too, particularly when I resize the ML, the scrollbars go screwy and transparent and Winamp eventually freezes :(

The extra tiles that go around the top middle of the gen titlebar are a nice addition :up:, and the AVS window is mo' bettah! Even the depressed X button works :D Has anybody found the ML button on main yet ?

yea, tis where the old winamp logo used to be

its an option, you can have it there, or not. old sk00l style i suppose

moved for the sake of not being banned :P

Would you like to pimp that in your original thread, this is after all a thread on how to skin the new bits of WA2, not a "Look at my skin" style thread, oh, sorry, not your skin is it, I keep forgetting.....

That sounds like one of the issues listed in the readme.txt. Did you have the AVS in fullscreen?

I have my doubts that the size changes of the scrollers is enough of a pro to outweigh the cons (ie. the ML skins will only ever look kind of 'half-skinned', since the scrollbars will almost always have that Windows look, rather than the look of the rest of the skin).


Once you have a couple of playlists imported into the ML, can you somehow save it so that the next time you load up winamp, they will all be there? If not, can someone explain to me the point of the playlist section in the ML :confused:


///when you have a video in a size other than 100% size, with winamp set to "repeat", the video seems to revert back to 100% each time it loops.

Ah, I see. Option unchecked.

Whoa, so it never really was 20 dB? Holy bear! That's a heck of a typo!

No it was 20Db... that got me too. They meant on the WA2.9 alpha I must assume, as WA2.9 has a new EQ which goes to 12Db whereas WA2.8 and co's went to 20Db. "Why?", I ask, "why must Nullsoft insist on confusing us all?". Is it their master plan to take over our minds? Who knows?

the +20/-20 on the base skin was the typo, 2.9 does feature new EQ processing goodies, but that isn't what has forced the base skin change.

I love how the scrollbars can be skinned in the Media Library.

well, having them stay the same sizer (like the pl) would keep old-school winampers happy, would create more unity for the windows in general, and would stop my ml looking crap :) (maybe an option "use windows style scrollbars", could you stretch the pl slider too? i assume so).

I personally have no issue with how the ML scroll bars have been done, been skinning the WA3 ones in a similar way for the last 18 months or so, it's just a mind set you have to get yourself into...

haven't gotten arouund to trying to skin any of it yet....I don't like any of my old skins enough to search for the psp files and try to update them...I hope the ML won't turn out to be more annoying than the PL though..

/me waits patiently for Jellby to update Skinners' Atlas;)

:P I'll get Winamp 2.90 when it's out. BTW, what happened to Winamp 2.82-2.89?