MAKI Cheats

[TheElusiveMelon]

Well "volunteered"

[Bruck72]

Just wondering if its popssible for someone to create or edit a drawer maki that will let you use multiple drawers animating in different directions at once.

Im making a skin for a carpc/navigation computer and want a minimalist look as standard but at the push of a button for all the menu systems to animate into the screen from different locations and still allow access to the mapping software underneath winamp. Ive used frisbeemonkeys drawer maki script which is great but would like to condense 3 drawers into onebutton push if its possible?????

Thanks for all your help reading through this forum and scripting ideas has been a great help. ((c:

[pjn123]

Havent used/looked at his script but the easiest way will be to have 3 of those scripts and let each of them point to the same button and do the drawer things onleftbutton...

Or you can incorpotate the 3 drawer scripts into one...

[Bruck72]

Originally posted by pjn123
Havent used/looked at his script but the easiest way will be to have 3 of those scripts and let each of them point to the same button and do the drawer things onleftbutton...

Or you can incorpotate the 3 drawer scripts into one...

Thanks pjn123 ive made 3 separate drawers that are all working on their own. how do i tie them to the onleftclick?
As this is my first skin and im learning as im going, i havent used the onleftclick before. As far as i can tell it goes into the maki script but not sure where or how?

ive attached my working folder if that helps
all the images are only rough but give the idea for the code
thanks

[pjn123]

Here is a quick edit for the drawer script...

The script is called in player.xml...

AND the script now takes 4 params...

<script file="scripts/drawer.maki" param="bottom-DrawerGrp;Next;780;490"/>
<script file="scripts/drawer.maki" param="lcd-DrawerGrp;Next;170;10"/>
<script file="scripts/drawer.maki" param="top-DrawerGrp;Next;780;0"/>


Here is the params:
param="
DRAWER_TO_SLIDE
;CLICK_HERE_TO_START
;END_POINT_X
;END_POINT_Y"

Hope this is what you want..

[pjn123]

Before i forget...
* Remember to remove all thumbs.db files from your zip files. WinZip does this very easy.

* To start animation.. click the big button...

[Bruck72]

Originally posted by pjn123
Here is a quick edit for the drawer script...

The script is called in player.xml...

AND the script now takes 4 params...

<script file="scripts/drawer.maki" param="bottom-DrawerGrp;Next;780;490"/>
<script file="scripts/drawer.maki" param="lcd-DrawerGrp;Next;170;10"/>
<script file="scripts/drawer.maki" param="top-DrawerGrp;Next;780;0"/>


Here is the params:
param="
DRAWER_TO_SLIDE
;CLICK_HERE_TO_START
;END_POINT_X
;END_POINT_Y"

Hope this is what you want..

Absolutely awesome
thanks heaps pjn123 thats exactly what i wanted

[Bruck72]

hi ppl
well ive read through every post i can find that comes close to it in the forums here but couldnt find a complete example, Im after a maki or xml coding that will display the playlist in a drawer rather than using standardframe
I would also like to be able to have multiple drawers that toggle shut when another is activated. ie open up playlist in a drawer then click on media library which in turn closes playlist

thanks for the help

[pjn123]

For that you must use ongetcancel() (cant remember the right method but just search the std.mi for cancel and you'll find it )

That is pretty advance coding so be aware. Look above the drawer script of the default modern skin for a cool and easy explanation. Think its drawer.m...

[Bruck72]

Originally posted by pjn123
For that you must use ongetcancel() (cant remember the right method but just search the std.mi for cancel and you'll find it )

That is pretty advance coding so be aware. Look above the drawer script of the default modern skin for a cool and easy explanation. Think its drawer.m...

thanks again pjn123

had a quick look at it this morning ( probably should have waited until i was fully awake ) it looks like that pretty much what i want to do but i dont need all the bells and whistles it has. will look at it in depth again tonight and see if i can figure it out. As ive never coded MAKI it could be hard, but then again i do like to bite off more than i can chew and as this is my first skin attempt i can only blame myself

i also found one in http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....laylist+drawer

Frisbeemonkey started one there so will try to compare the 2, tho Frisbees is a hell of alot smaller

oh the joys of skinning

[Plague]

Check out the skin Invicta, I helped them with a playlist drawer for the stick mode.
In that skin, the playlist drawer doesn't replace the regular playlist editor, instead it's just an extra playlist editor, so you still have the option which one you want to use. They can even be used at the same time.
It uses the <playlisteditor/> wasabi xml object, instead of the Wa2 playlist editor that is used as the regular standardframe editor in all skins.
the <playlisteditor/> object isn't completely bugfree since the merger of Wa2 and Wa3, but it's good enough and I'm trying to push Benski to fix it completely.
Putting the regular playlist editor in a drawer severely limits what the user can do with it, since it'll be fixed size, so it's not recommended if the skin is to be usable for everyday usage. But it's your choice.

edit:
This is one reason why skinning in Wa3 rocked so much more than skinning in Wa5 does, you could have as many playlist editors as you wanted in a skin and you could pretty much do whatever you wanted with them. Hell, even the Media Library (although not functionally as good as the current one, not at the time anyways, it ofcourse would've been, given time) contained a couple of <playlisteditor/> objects, and if you wanted to, you could mess around with the ML aswell. You could incorporate parts of it somewhere in your skin if you wanted, or move stuff around, create duplicates, merge pledit and ML into one window (already done if you wanted to in the default skin, you could play files directly from the ML if you wanted, instead of first having to move them to the pledit like now) and so on and so forth.
Sure, it also meant it opened up the possibility to make very unusable skins, but that didn't mean you _had_ to do that.

Aww how I miss Wa3.. :P

[Bruck72]

Hi guys

Just wondering if someone out of the kindness of their heart would be able to make a maki script to allow a drawer to fade in to view once it is in place?

Im pretty sure it would be possible on seeing the script on Frisbees website that lets you adjust the Alpha using a slider. surely it can be done on a timer/counter the same way the drawer movement gets calculated.

As im no coder and am still working on my first skin i was wondering if someone could make one up and maybe post it for general use.

thanks in advance ( even if noone does it )
Bruck72

[SLoB]

use ontargetreached event for the drawer and put in to fade in the group

[Bruck72]

Hi just wondering how to change the opacity on a button click

I want to have the skin at 50% opacity while everything is shut ( ie drawers ) but once a button is pressed and the drawers and components open the opacity changes to 100% an also reverses

Thanks

[Bruck72]

Originally posted by pjn123
Here is a quick edit for the drawer script...

The script is called in player.xml...

AND the script now takes 4 params...

<script file="scripts/drawer.maki" param="bottom-DrawerGrp;Next;780;490"/>
<script file="scripts/drawer.maki" param="lcd-DrawerGrp;Next;170;10"/>
<script file="scripts/drawer.maki" param="top-DrawerGrp;Next;780;0"/>


Here is the params:
param="
DRAWER_TO_SLIDE
;CLICK_HERE_TO_START
;END_POINT_X
;END_POINT_Y"

Ive edited your drawer.m script and added and extra param option to adjust the speed in and out of the drawers from the xml rather than having to have multiple drawer.maki scripts with different speed settings

heres and example
<script file="scripts/drawer.maki" param="playpause;Slide;544;480;2;2"/> <!-- come in second -->
<script file="scripts/drawer.maki" param="previous;Slide;440;480;3;2"/> <!-- come in third -->
<script file="scripts/drawer.maki" param="mlg;Slide;0;481;1;2"/> <!-- come in first -->


because of the different speed settings they "Seem" to come in at different times creating a nice animation effect



Thanks to FrisbeeMonkey and PJN123 for the scripts

Bruck72

[SLoB]

DO NOT have a variable named "frame" w/o quotes in maki for anything other than a frame if compiling for 5.5+

[E-Trance]

Hi! Here is another fun and simple MAKI-cheat. It prevents skin switching. Use carefully! The user may get very angry

System.onScriptUnloading() {
switchSkin(getSkinName());
}

[foridea]

Originally posted by frisbeemonkey
// USING THIS SCRIPT:
//*****************************************************************************
// 1. Define a drawer group in your XML.
// 2. Add your background layer to the group, something like:
// <layer id="Drawer" image="player.Drawer" x="0" y="0" sysregion="1"/>
// You can change any of the values but the id and sysregion
// 3. Add a layer to pass info to this script, something like:
// <layer id="DrawerInfo" x="13" y="0"/>
// Set x and y to where you want your drawer to slide to
// 3. Add any other objects(layers, buttons, sliders, etc) to your group
// 4. Copy this script (and drawer.maki) to your scripts folder.
// 5. If you don't have drawer.maki, compile this script.
// 6. Add this line to the group that you want to be a drawer:
// <script id="drawer" file="scripts/drawer.maki"/>
// 7. Refresh your skin(F5) and try it out.
//*****************************************************************************

// EXAMPLE XML
//=============================================================================
//<groupdef id="DrawerGroup" w="39" h="158"> <!-- 39,0 -->
//
// <layer id="Drawer" image="player.Drawer" x="0" y="0" sysregion="1" move="0"/>
// <layer id="DrawerInfo" x="13" y="0"/>
// //add other objects that you want to move with the drawer here
//
// <script id="drawer" file="scripts/drawer.maki"/>
//</groupdef>
//=============================================================================
// ***Don't forget to place your group somewhere in your layout!***
// <group id="DrawerGroup" x="47" y="0"/>

thanks work be useful

[! 4Tex]

@E-Trance: hrhr :-D

[Clapsus]

Help. I need to create a file .m which function will consist in the following:
In a player to press the button, in a browser the web page (my address) opens

Excuse me for bad knowledge of English language

[trueslider]

Hi, guys. Can anyone help me, please? I need a script "clocks". But not one that appears in the timer when the play stopped\paused. The clock must be displayed in another layer and that the background image changed depending on time of day. For example: 0:00-3:59 - 1.png, 4:00-7:59 - 2.png, 8:00-11:59 - 3.png, 12:00-15:59 - 4.png, etc. And when you hover the mouse displays a tooltip of the current time.

[midiwriter]

OK I'm new to writing scripts but this is the first script I wrote myself and although it is exceedingly simple it's working and for that I am happy

This will play an animation every time the playlist changes to a new track.
It's working great so I hope you can use in your skins.
Mike

[midiwriter]

I wrote this from scratch, not a rewrite of old file...
This will alpha-fade your play and pause buttons (instead of just switching them).
It will also update the songticker to show current operation (play/pause/stop).
Be sure you have 'infoticker' defined in your XML (full instruction included in file).
Enjoy!

[garetjax]

eq_layers.m - is bugged up
incrementing through the sliders list is jacked (Plague???) The math seems off

"wa2.player.eq.slider"+integerToString((pre.getPosition()*27)/255);

position(-127 to 127) (255 Items)
*27 Images
/ Total # Frames

Doesn't this mean that only half of the represented slides will be shown? From the looks of it only the top 50% the rest are negative numbers.

Am I missing something?

[garetjax]

Added the following

PHP Code:

int GetSliderValue(Int CurrentSlider)
{
  if(CurrentSlider<0)
  {
   CurrentSlider = CurrentSlider*-1;
  }
  return CurrentSlider;
} 


And Wrapped Each Eq GetPosition/newpos with

GetSliderValue(newpos)

[garetjax]

I've had to change the eq_layers one again:

Here is the file:

[Victhor]

Is there any chance to re-upload the "Play animation on Playlist change" script somewhere? Is there any chance someone has it?

[JW]

Is this the sort of thing you're looking for? This one plays an animation as the title changes; I have others in the same script that start the animation "onPlay" and stop it "onStop".

code:


system.onTitleChange(String s)

{

  if (getstatus())

    {

      cdanimplay.show();

      cdanimstop.hide();

    }

    else

    {

      cdanimplay.hide();

      cdanimstop.show();

    }

}

[JW]

I added a window to my skin to display the contents of the "comment" field in the ID3 tag for a file. It's working well - it displays onPlay and onTitleChange, and blanks out onStop. But the comments are sometimes larger than the available window space I have, so I'd like a way to be able to scroll within the text object. If the text exceeds the available space (21 lines in this case), it shows the 21 lines from the middle of the comment. Is there a way to do that? Is there a different text object that can handle larger amounts of text?

XML:

code:


<groupdef id="comment.group" name="CommentGroup">

  <layer id="filler" x="0" y="0" w="500" h="240"

    ghost="0" image="filler" rectrgn="1" />

  <text id="comment" display="" x="5" y="-53"

    w="480" h="395" fontsize="12" align="left" />

</groupdef>

Some of the MAKI:

code:


System.onPlay()

{ 

  commenttext = (system.getPlayItemMetaDataString("comment"));

  comment.setText(commenttext);

}

[Victhor]

I´m a total noob with Wasabi scripts, I just use them (with instructions). How do (or where) do I define which animation is "cdanimplay"?

[JW]

Here's the complete script; this compiles with no trouble. You'll want to tweak the "std.mi" line to reference where you actually have the std.mi file.

From here, you would need objects in your XML named "cdanimstop" and "cdanimplay" (or whatever you want to call them; mine is a spinning CD). The second one would be a multiple-element file with frames, essentially. Winamp will "scroll" through the frames to display the animation. Let's say your non-animated file was 50 pixels by 100 pixels, and you wanted four different animation frames. You'd have a second file 50 pixels by 400 pixels, each 100 pixels vertically being a new frame of the animation.

If you design and define the graphical elements that way, and use the script below, you'll get what you're after.

Script:

code:


#include "..\..\..\lib\std.mi"



Global container main;

Global layer cdanimstop;

Global animatedlayer cdanimplay;



system.onScriptLoaded()

{

  Group tickergroup = getcontainer("main").getLayout("normal");

  cdanimstop = tickergroup.findobject("cdanimstop");

  cdanimplay = tickergroup.findobject("cdanimplay");



  if (getstatus())

  {

    cdanimplay.show();

    cdanimstop.hide();

  }

  else

  {

    cdanimplay.hide();

    cdanimstop.show();

  }

}



system.onTitleChange(String s)

{

  if (getstatus())

    {

      cdanimplay.show();

      cdanimstop.hide();

    }

    else

    {

      cdanimplay.hide();

      cdanimstop.show();

    }

}



System.onPlay()

{

    cdanimplay.show();

    cdanimstop.hide();

}



System.onStop()

{

  cdanimplay.hide();

  cdanimstop.show();

}

XML - put this in whatever group/container you want the animation to live in

code:


  <layer id="cdanimstop" x="625" y="53" w="85" h="57"

    image="cdanimstop" />

  <animatedlayer id="cdanimplay" x="625" y="53" w="85" h="57"

    image="cdanimplay" autoplay="1" move="0"

    autoreplay="1" rectrgn="0" />

[Victhor]

Great! I knew about "animatedlayer" and how it works but I´m totally lost with wasabi if you don´t show me from #include "..\..\..\lib\std.mi".. >)

I´ll try this right now, thanks in advance!!

[Victhor]

It works perfectly, I even change the first static layer for an animated one and it worked too.
Do you have your other scripts shared somewhere?

[JW]

Anyone ever get the "list" object to work properly? I discovered that will give me the scrolling text window I'm after (if I set the list data in the XML directly), but getting it to work in MAKI has been difficult, and I can't find any examples of its use anywhere. Trying to use it as a text object requires a list to guiobject conversion (when declaring it as a list object), and explicitly declaring it as a guiobject in MAKI throws an error when using it with the "settext" function. If I can overcome these issues, I can use setXMLParam to feed the text in (or the "feed" option, which also doesn't seem to be documented).

[pjn123]

Originally Posted by JW

Anyone ever get the "list" object to work properly? I discovered that will give me the scrolling text window I'm after (if I set the list data in the XML directly), but getting it to work in MAKI has been difficult, and I can't find any examples of its use anywhere. Trying to use it as a text object requires a list to guiobject conversion (when declaring it as a list object), and explicitly declaring it as a guiobject in MAKI throws an error when using it with the "settext" function. If I can overcome these issues, I can use setXMLParam to feed the text in (or the "feed" option, which also doesn't seem to be documented).

See attached .m file for an example. The part your interested in, you'll find in the custom function called addProvider()... I think

Remember a List in maki isn't a <List/> in xml.
A List in maki is just an array of values. If you want to work with the XML list in maki, it's called a GuiList object. The list in this example have an image label too.

The attachment comes from:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Plugins\ClassicPro\engine\xui\CentroSUI\_v2\Reader\main.m

[JW]

Thanks! The removeItem and removeAll options throw an error during compile ("not a member function nor an event of class 'GuiList'"). Any ideas on either of those? The addItem option seems to work fine (no compile errors, anyway).

Disregard; using setXMLParam to tweak the "items" parameter, instead of addItem, works great. I just have to separate the lines in the ID3 comment field with semicolons, and I jsut discovered that commas in the comments wipe out the remaining text on the lines that have them. Odd...

Thanks for your help!

[JW]

And now I know why - was mixing up "list" and "guilist" in std.mi (which you warned me about )...

[JW]

New issue - trying to use the XML list for something else. I need to get the text string for an item in the list (by clicking, double-clicking, whatever) and use that text string elsewhere. I can't find a suitable function or parameter for that. I tried getItemLabel, but it wants parameters included. I tried using the position integer for the double-click action and the compiler told me the function doesn't need any parameters. So I took it out and the compiler then told me I need two parameters (which matches std.mi).

code:


list.onDoubleClick(int itemnum)

{

  string filename = ((albumlist.getItemLabel() + (".m3u")));

  system.playfile(filename);

  setText(filename);  //Just for test purposes to see

                      if the double-click action works; it does

}

[JW]

Got this working. getItemLabel is the correct function, with itemnum from the doubleclick action as the first parameter, and 0 as the second.

Now to figure out that pesky "feed" option in the XML, so I don't have to hard-code the list items...

[pjn123]

The XML functions is really easier to use than they look.

That previous script also had some xml reading in it. If you want a "cleaner" example see attachment.

From here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Plugins\ClassicPro\engine\two\scripts\read-classicpro.m

If you want to read the xml file from your skin directory you must include the script with a param like this:

PHP Code:

<script file="xxx\xxx.maki" param="@SKINPATH@"/> 


Just one tip... Might save you a few hours (in my case :P). Don't include a "&" somewhere in the xml file ( I was adding url's and they had a few of them )

EDIT:
Woo 1000 posts!