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Hey there. I'm having a bit of an issue which is causing me many hours of frustration. I created a simple little skin, just a base and 5 buttons. The base image has semi-transparent pixels around the edges, but when I use it in winamp they are plain solid black pixels. Which is gay.

I know you're all yelling at me "You fool, desktopalpha, alphabackground, etc etc", but I tried that and there is absolutely no difference between the 6 or so different methods that I tried. If you know what I'm talkin bout and know how to fix it... plz tell me how, coz this happens quite often with me, and then i sit and delete the semi-transparent pixels later.

do you use xp? it won't work on win 98 etc

Yeah i got XP

hmm, strange.. don't know what's wrong then, could you post the skin?

i would, but i think i got frustrated and deleted it. Cant find it.

I think the layout tags look like this:

code:


<layout id="normal" background="non-alpha" alphabackground="alpha" droptarget="pldr" desktopalpha="1">

</layout>

I suppose you did put the with and height in there too.
Did you try removing the desktopaplha tag. It isn't really neccesary if you use the background+alphabackground tags.

nevermind. Skin deleted, i'll bitch and moan again, when i run into that problem again

Make sure that you actually have desktopalpha turned on in your preferences (since winamp by default doesn't.)

Thanks Hammerhead, my stupidity shines through yet again. But what does "desktopalpha=1" do then? I thought that was the purpose of the damn option. So if I distribute this skin to people who dont have it activated will have a crappy looking skin... great. I'm not gonna make non-desktopalpha pics, screw that.

Anyway... yet another question: Is there a maximum size that a single picture can be? I feel like such an idiot because nothing I want to do will work. I have this code:

code:


<layout id="FlameNet4" droptarget="pldr" desktopalpha="1" w="585" h="41">

	<layer id="player.4.base.layer" image="player.4.base.img" x="0" y="0" sysregion="1" />

	<group id="player.4.cbuttons.group" x="0" y="0" />

</layout>

The picture's size is exactly that... but winamp cuts it off at width of about 500. Anything wrong with the above code?

Nevermind previous post. Sorted out. Damn that Studio.xnf file...

;)

DeskTopAlpha="1" allows Winamp to use DTA in your layout. I think it's possible to turn desktopalpha on/off in the Winamp prefs from the skin: make a DTA togglebutton and then switch it on with a maki script.

Well, cant i do a MAKI script that runs on skin load... then in System.OnScriptLoaded() do the DTA thing? But what is the DTA command?

setDesktopAlpha(Boolean onoff);

Thanks pukkaboy