minimal

[Dark Ninja]

just wondered if i can get away with this to be published as a minimal skin,
obviously i have the other windows to do but just need an opinion whether it`ll get accepted

[Mr Jones]

Very clever, hiding the vis that way....

I would think it'd be ok, as long as you make sure the other windows are done.

However, personal opinion here, for the sake of an additional two buttons I'd add a shuff/rep button.

Could you do something with the volume area as well to at least indicate something is happening, how about making the 'Mini Disc' logo gradually change colour as the volume increases?, filling it from the bottom up with the blue you've used on the other displays would look cool.

[Dark Ninja]

cool idea about the mini disc idea,thanx

i thought it was pretty cool hiding the vis like that myself,there is one there but i thought i dont want one for this,

and i have to put shufrep
oh well,for the masses

btw,dont tell em how i did that vis thing....

[DrO]

aww, but if you...

you may want to look at the playlist window's bottom right corner area if you haven't noticed already since i'm getting some dodgy effects down there. otherwise what Jones said and it's looking goood

-daz

[Dark Ninja]

yeah,i ha`ve nt even started on the playlist yet,the file was`nt meant to go in,oops
so just ignore it

[DrO]

ignore what, i see nothing

-daz

[Dark Ninja]

whats goin on with this winshade,
been thinkin about what it could be but i have no idea,has this happened to someone before allthough it`s probl something simple which you dont think of


it`s ok,got it,
transparency screw up up

[Dark Ninja]

here`s what i have at the moment,it`s going well,
allthough i should`ve done more at this point i hav`nt cause i`m tired and can`t be bothered,
should be finished in about 2 or 3 days

[Crucible]

Very sexy. But I dont understand your question as to whether it would be published. Is there some sort of standard for minimal skins?

[Mr Jones]

Yes, we usually insist on all the main buttons and sliders to be visible , EQ has to be useable and so on.

We can live with the occasional button missing, Balance for example, but if everything is stripped then it'll probably get bounced, yes people do send skins that are basically a picture with a vis window and songticker stuck on them.

[Crucible]

Oh ok. Kewl. You know what? I reckon you guys should let me in on your little vis secret. Aside from the fact that its just plain cool, I could really use it for a skin Im working on atm.

EDIT: Officially feeling stupid. Never mind. I downloaded it from above and looked for myself. Sorry.

[Mr Jones]

Open up his zip file linked in the first post,it's not rocket science on how he's done it

[DrO]

even a lowly coder could work it out
and that newer screenie is looking nice

-daz

[Dark Ninja]

thanx Dr0
i really like how the amp turned out,

[dlinkwit27]

Originally posted by DrO
even a lowly coder could work it out
and that newer screenie is looking nice

-daz

even I figured it out

/edit
also, thank you for asking here if it would be allowed first instead of just making it and comming here bitching about how it wasn't accepted. kudos!

[Crucible]

Originally posted by DrO
even a lowly coder could work it out

Hey, cut me some slack, I got crap resolution on this monitor!

[Dark Ninja]

screwed the quote thing up
quote dlink,
/edit
also, thank you for asking here if it would be allowed first instead of just making it and comming here bitching about how it wasn't accepted. kudos!

i should probly get a CT for that surely,should`nt i

[Mr Jones]

Nah.

[Dark Ninja]

damn....

[Dark Ninja]

moving om,
changed it up a little for the masses
however the files for the minimal stuff will be supplied with the skin,so the more experienced users that dont want all this fancy malarky can just swap it over

[ripe]

In the eq, why not move the slider tracks over to the left by one pixel? Then your buttons would sit in the middle of the track.

[Dark Ninja]

Originally posted by ripe
In the eq, why not move the slider tracks over to the left by one pixel? Then your buttons would sit in the middle of the track.

can i suggest you go take a look at my previous skins

[ripe]

I was simply pointing out that your eq buttons might look better if they were centralised on the eq bars.
What have your previous skins got to do with that?

And what the hell was this for? -->

[Mr Jones]

I was wondering that myself....

[Dark Ninja]

i`m still in the process of shifting some stuff around thats all
i allready knew about te uncentralised eq controls and had all that in order

the reference to the previous skins is that basically i make sure that everything is correct and perfect,
i mean,take the last skin i made,T-952
even the rivets are in-line top and bottom

yes,my skins go through my own quality conrol whch is very strict
so,sorry to get arsy about it
it`s just the way i feel

now i gotta get some blue tack and put up my large GTA san andreas poster

[Dark Ninja]

this is finished and has been submitted

thanks for all your help guys

[Mr Jones]

Yay, you used the volume idea , nice

[Dark Ninja]

it was a good idea...

[DrO]

yummy

only thing is it's missing the 7x7 area in gen.bmp (118,72) for when the gen frame is a fixed size (which everyone seems to miss out )

-daz

[Dark Ninja]

does it show on the skin and can you get a a screen shot of the offending square

[Mr Jones]

You wont' see it on the skin...



See the little 7x7 black square on there?, ok, run winamp and press J to bring up the jump to file box, see the bottom right corner ?, see how there is a 7x7 hole, that's where the little square fits, If I remember rightly it covers up the resizer area on the frame, so if you have a frame that dosn't resize, like the JTFE one, you don't get a resize graphic on it.

Something like that, it's hardly documented anywhere, it's even wrong in the classic base skin, and I've only recently discovered it myself while updating some classic skins.

[Dark Ninja]

the graphic i use does`nt even have that little graphic on it...
but i tried lookin to see where it would go but i think i got confused by your directions cause i dont know what you mean,
tried doing the jump to file box to see but yeah,
found nothin
if it`s no biggie ,screw it

[LuigiHann]

That element should simply be dropped in the next version of winamp.

[billyvnilly]

dark ninja, this skin rocks. love the vis, love the stacks and love the main window transparency.

[Wildrose-Wally]

Originally posted by wildrose-wally
One more thing, don't forget that little unknown square in the gen.bmp, if you don't skin it, it buggers up the skin on the plugins that use that bmp

You can just copy a 7x7 square from 112,59 of the same bmp, and you'll be ok.

[dlinkwit27]

that's just wierd. period.

[DrO]

weird yes but it's done for those wanting to distingush a fixed gen frame from a resizeable and since i use the fixed frame method for jtfe...

hmm, actually thinking about it all now, i think i could possible add in some hacking around to copy the current 7x7 area over to the new area on fixed frames (so i then don't get bug reports about it working on skins which haven't got that 7x7 block)

-daz

[Dark Ninja]

Originally posted by BillyVnilly
dark ninja, this skin rocks. love the vis, love the stacks and love the main window transparency.

umm...what vis

[billyvnilly]

the lack there of

[Dark Ninja]

well,
this skin truly sucks

Weak! The thing that gets me is, you either completely remove (vis, bal, etc.) or severely cripple (vol, text size), and then say that your skin is functional.
Posted by sctts on Monday, August 15th, 2005 at 12:39 AM CEST




Weak! The only standard this skin will set, will be a "sub" stadard one.
Posted by razzinno on Monday, August 15th, 2005 at 05:00 AM CEST


lmao
maybe there just jelous they did`nt think of that