Skin Manager v1.0 (17/06/2010)

[DrO]

Skin Manager v1.0

• This plugin now replaces the Skins in Submenu (SIS) plugin (is a continuation of SIS)
• Implements a reworked 'Skins' preference page for better handling of installed skins
• Implements a 'Manager Settings' preferences page (old SIS preferences dialog)
• Allows you to view previews of skins with live generation of classic skins (~90% complete)
• Allows you to generate a preview image of a classic skin to see what it is like
• You can now select a skin by double-clicking it instead of a single-click allowing the skin to be previewed first
• Adds additional right-click menu options on the skins list such as converting underscores to spaces in skin names
• Allows you to search and filter out the installed skins when looking for a specific one or type
• Everything the Skins in Submenu plug-in implemented
• Designed for 5.5+ clients

Current version: get v1.0

This should be reasonably reliable especially the skin menu parts which are the same as used in the Skins in Submenu (SIS) plug-in. Also this has been in effective development over the last 4 years, just i've never gotten around to releasing it but i (and koopa who has helped test it over the years ) feel it is time to release it now. So enjoy.

Here is an example of the altered skins preference page:


-daz

[Koopa]

Woooooooooot.

After more of 4 years testing, it's really public.

That's one of his best plugins.

The skin preview is awesome, the filters are very useful. And it's already fully localizable.

Well done, Darren.

[Pawel]

Awesome plugin, great job!
Next plugin that you all have to install.
-Pawel

[muppet]

DrO! You're simply amazing. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[DrO]

Skin Manager v1.0 Alpha 2

• Fixed issue with loading of language file if Time Restore & Autoplay is also present

get v1.0 Alpha 2

Thanks for finding this issue pawel

-daz

[homes32]

excellent work! this is what I have thought the skin manager should have been for years!

[DrO]

Skin Manager v1.0 Alpha 3

• Fixed issue with displaying of base classic skin with a language pack
• Fixed modern skin's not showing a 'no preview' image when a screenshot image isn't found

get v1.0 Alpha 3

Thanks for finding these issues koopa

-daz

[DrO]

Skin Manager v1.0 Alpha 4

• Fixed crash on exit and crash when viewing a few skins quickly on the skins prefs page
• Fixed crash issue when trying to load the readme information of a skin
• Rename/Remove buttons now are disabled for the skins shipped in the Winamp installer

get v1.0 Alpha 4

Only just as many updates in a day as Winamp gets

-daz

[osmosis]

Loving it! Thanks for all the recent updates Daz!

[DrO]

Skin Manager v1.0 Alpha 5

• Fixed modern skin preview issue where the preview didn't load in all cases e.g. Blakk skin due to having a classic skin bitmap in it
• Improved handling of modern skin previews so they're better scaled and placed in the preview area
• Added double-click and a right-click menu when previewing a modern skin to show the screenshot at its true size

get v1.0 Alpha 5

Should make modern skin previews a bit nicer to look at - just a shame that a lot of the screenshot.png in modern skins are so dire nowadays.

-daz

[DrO]

Skin Manager v1.0 Alpha 6

• Fixed crash on exit due to a double-free on the no preview skin image

get v1.0 Alpha 6

Taken a while to track this one down - hopefully no one has lost any data due to the issue (unlike my podcast downloads list *shrugs*

-daz

[DJ Egg]

Yeah, my Podcast Subscriptions list got wiped.
Luckily, I had a backup of %appdata%\winamp\plugins\ml\feeds.xml :-)
The Podcast Downloads file (rss.xml) didn't get wiped though...

[DrO]

i did say modern skins were evil as the crash was related to the handling of them good thing i went for an alpha status to cover myself unlike koopa telling me to release it as a 1.0, heh

-daz

[Koopa]

Originally posted by DrO
unlike koopa telling me to release it as a 1.0, heh

Hahaha

It never crashed for me in all the years, so I'm still fine with the idea I had to release it as 1.0f.

And a guarantee, that it's 100% bug free you never have, even after your alpha period.

[DrO]

that's very true about removing the alpha status though as we've seen it's worked well with the first few releases considering some of the quirky crashes found since the release that weren't found in the internal development phase. either way the number of bugs have shrunk so that's the main thing - is now consistancy in the classic preview and that clear search option you're pestering for

-daz

[DrO]

Skin Manager v1.0 Alpha 7

• Altered some dialog styles to better fit with the Winamp client (MS Shell Dlg)
• Default on new installs is now to have alpha sorting of the skins
• Fixed a divide by zero issue with the preferences and spanned menus (now enforces the minimum limit on entry)
• Converted the plug-in to be unicode where possible now so UI will always be showing unicode now

get v1.0 Alpha 7

Have found there's an issue with the menu handling code when alpha sorting is disabled which causes the 'Winamp Classic' entry to move to the end of the menu & i think there's some quirks with the span option since i merged the two original plug-ins together so will look to fix those in the next version (unless i re-do all of the menu code, heh).

-daz

[evolution76]

Dro.....you rule!!!!!!

[evolution76]

Will there, (or is there) a delete button you can put in the skin manager?

[DrO]

the normal uninstall current skin... button should work on the selected skin though i've just found that i need to add in some tweaks for how that works so it won't reset Winamp back to the classic skin incorrectly. i'll also get the button text changed to remove the 'current' part to make it more relevant to what is viable.

-daz

[DrO]

Skin Manager v1.0 Beta 1

• Fixed the 'Winamp Classic' menu item not remaining at the top of the classic skin list when alpha sorting is disabled
• Improved handling of the uninstall skin button on inactive skins
• Removed 'current' from the rename and uninstall buttons
• Internal updates for client compatibility

get v1.0 Beta 1

With this release i'd say things are stable now, is just some work on the preview which needs to be done and i think we've got a 1.0 final (at last )

-daz

[Pawel]

Great news, DrO!
Lets test this "almost" stable plugin :P
-Pawel

[DrO]

Skin Manager v1.0

• Fixed hotkey not using a unicode string on compatible Winamp clients
• Converted more of the internal code where possible to support unicode
• Added CheckSkinTypeW(..) function and bumped the CheckSkinAPIVersion(..) api to v1.1
• Updated to use zlib 1.2.5
• Added build date to the about message
• Everything else listed in the alpha and beta builds since Skins In Submenu was released

get v1.0

I've decided that as far as stability and functionality, this is ok to be released as a v1.0 (there's still some quirks with the classic skin live previewing but i'll iron that out as and when i find the interest to do so ). Enjoy

-daz