I've been looking for a way to do this for as long as I've been making winamp skins. I also have another question. How in the world to you skin the AVS screen and the Mini Browser? Thanks for all your help, whomever can answer my 2 questions....

Question: How do I make my vis screen tranparent.
Answer: You can't.
Question: How do i skin the AVS and Minibrowser?
Answer: Ooh, very complicated. Open a skin file in Winzip and look for avs.bmp and mb.bmp and use the two bitmaps as a guide for skinning your own Minibrowser and AVS

I think Turles_Shima meant how do you mess with AVS presets?

First of all, they're seperate from the skin. To modify them, open the AVS and click (or double-click in Winamp 2.7+), then just mess with the different effects in there. When you find something you like, you can save it by going to the Preset menu, then Save.

And as for the Minibrowser start page, you have to have MikroAMP installed. Then write an HTML file. Save it in your ZIP file as winampmb.txt

Get MikroAMP here: http://www.skinmaster.co.uk

transparency ....impossible or possible?
 

I'm not entirely sure making the vis screen transparent is impossible, though up to a day or two ago I would have agreed wholeheartedly. There is an RGB setting for transparency...it deals with negative integers. I know that some Windows programs utilize the setting to create transparent backround in Windows text...but I don't know whether or not it can be used in Winamp.
Just a thought.

-Exzelian

hey ex... why dont you get on the ball and try out your plan
i doubt it shall work but give it a try!

transparency
 

IT may or may not....it's just something I realised. I don't remember the setting, but I do know that it was fully explained in the readme file of an old shareware program I used to have. As soon as I can dig it up I intend to try it. As for whether or not it works? Who knows. Only one way to find out I suppose.

-Exzelian

This sounds interesting...please let us know what you find out Exzelian :)

transparencies
 

Well so far it's a no go, I plugged in various perametes and under normal negative integer settings the program reverted to black. But heres the kicker. It has to do with the transparency capeabilities of the executible and how it translates. So theres nothign saying there isn't some weird integer that would define transparency in RGB since Winamp obviously can use SOME transparent means.

I'm still looking so if I figure out anything I'll repost

-Exzelian