New to Skinning, need help with songticker

[Devil Dave]

Hi I'm new to skinning(started last night) and I need help with the songticker text; it displays but only half of the text!! please help me, here's my code:
<text id="songticker" ticker="1" display="songname" default="" showlen="1" x="241" y="123" w="157" h="14" align="left" rightclickaction="trackmenu" font="font.default" fontsize="18" ghost="1" altfont="Arial"/>

and sorry if my English is bad..
Peace##

[hansschmucker]

Are you sure that you didn'T simply miscalculate the width?... for reference, here's mine: Do you use relative placement for the group? That's usual the source of all troubles...

code:


<!-- Status Screen Background Layer Definition -->

<groupdef id="obj.skin.main.status" name="Player Background">

   <text id="obj.skin.main.status.ticker" ticker="1" display="songname" default="" showlen="1" x="4" y="0" relatw="1" w="-8" h="30"

	font="wasabi.font.default" fontsize="12"/>



  <text id="obj.skin.main.status.format" ticker="1" display="songinfo" default="" x="4" y="26" relatw="1" w="-8" h="15" 

	font="wasabi.font.medium" fontsize="10" ghost="1" />



</groupdef>

[Devil Dave]

No i even tried to paste in your code and it still doesn't work!! it's like something is over the half of the text!!

[hansschmucker]

could you post your entire xml... because this doesn't seem like a problem with the ticker, more like a problem with your overall layout... you can also send it to me via email... zodiachsx at gmail dot com then I'll upload it to my place, so it won't bloat up the post so much...

[Devil Dave]

ok have sendt u email now "zodiachsx at gmail dot com" right??

[hansschmucker]

Yep, got it... for everybody else who wants to take a look at it, it's at
http://hansschmucker.free.fr/player.xml

[hansschmucker]

Uh, one more request... could you send me a screenshot... I'm pretty new to this stuff as well (although not new to skinning and XML), and I can't simply imagine all those coords in my head

[Devil Dave]

can u help me with my problem?? then i'll give u a screenshot

[hansschmucker]

Maybe... but it will certainly be of help for other people... to be fair, here's a screenshot of my first (resizable) skin:

The image is also a link to the alpha skin

[Devil Dave]

man that script of yours is just too much for me!!

[hansschmucker]

I've spend two evenings on it so far (including learning the basics of Winamp's XML format).

Anyway, have you tried resorting your objects to make sure nothing is covering you ticker

code:


  <groupdef id="player" name="winamp">

    <!-- Song info -->

    <text id="timer" display="time" x="6" y="124" w="70" h="18" font="BIGNUM" fontsize="21" 

    align="right" timecolonwidth="7"/>

    <vis id="vis" x="6" y="143" w="70" h="16"/>

   <text id="Songticker" ticker="1" display="songname" default="" showlen="1" x="242" y="122" relatw="1" w="100" h="18"

	font="font.default" fontsize="12"/>

    <!-- Visualaization -->

  </groupdef>

  

  <!-- Main Window: Container and Layout -->

  <container id="main" name="Main Window" default_x="0" default_y="0" default_visible="1">

    <!-- First Layout -->

    <layout id="normal" background="background" droptarget="pldr">

      <group id="playbuttons" x="31" y="177"/>

      <group id="mlpl" x="289" y="140"/>

      <group id="player"/>

    </layout>

  </container>

[hansschmucker]

Ah, one more thing... it's a good habbit to specify width and height of each group you include, since sometimes Winamp screws up calculating the correct size

[Devil Dave]

nope. didn't work... here's a screenshot so u 2 can see my problem...
u see to the right there..?

[hansschmucker]

Hey, what's this doing here: relatw="1" w="100"
it would either have to say
relatw="0" w="100"
or
relatw="1" w="-51"

[Devil Dave]

ok,.. look at my screenshot.. u see the songinfo dosen't go all the vay over the black box u see.. how do i make it do that??

[hansschmucker]

That should do it:

<text id="Songticker" ticker="1" display="songname" default="" showlen="1" x="242" y="122" relatw="0" w="140" h="18"
font="font.default" fontsize="12"/>

[Devil Dave]

nope it dosen't do it!!!

[hansschmucker]

Argh, there has to be something terribly obvious that I'm overlooking here...

The only other things I could imagine right now would be
<group id="player" w="392" h="211" />

If that doesn't work, then you'll have to wait for a more experienced guy to help you out..

[Devil Dave]

it worked Thanx

[hansschmucker]

Told you, Winamp often messes up a group's size. Phew... took us quite a while to figure that one out