Font Help

[*Chester*]

whats wrong here, because if i take the text out of the skin it works fine, if i use this it don't its just a big pic saying Bitmap not found

player-elements.xml

<truetypefont id="skin.font" file="mael.ttf" />
<bitmapfont id="skin.BIGNUM" file="player/numfont.png" charwidth="9" charheight="13" hspacing="3" vspacing="1" />

player-normal.xml

<!-- Timer -->
<text
id="timer"
display="time"
x="115" y="235"
w="70" h="18"
font="skin.BIGNUM" fontsize="21" color="255,255,255"
/>

<!-- Da song ticker -->
<text
id="songticker" ticker="1"
display="songname" default=""
x="108" y="23"
w="157" h="14"
font="skin.font" fontsize="13"
/>

<!-- Info line -->
<text
id="infoline" ticker="1"
display="songinfo" default=""
x="108" y="37"
w="157" h="11"
font="skin.font" fontsize="12"
/>

[Bizzeh]

dumb ass....

if u wanna use a ttf u need

player-elements.xml

<truetypefont id="skin.font" file="mael.ttf" />

player-normal.xml

<!-- Timer -->
<text
id="timer"
display="time"
x="115" y="235"
w="70" h="18"
font="skin.font" fontsize="21" color="255,255,255"
/>

<!-- Da song ticker -->
<text
id="songticker" ticker="1"
display="songname" default=""
x="108" y="23"
w="157" h="14"
font="skin.font" fontsize="13" color="255,255,255"
/>

<!-- Info line -->
<text
id="infoline" ticker="1"
display="songinfo" default=""
x="108" y="37"
w="157" h="11"
font="skin.font" fontsize="12" color="255,255,255"
/>

[pixelpusher]

There's really no need calling names Dexter.

From what I can see, it should work. You should have
your font in the main folder of your skin.

Did you get it to work yet?

Pixelpusher.

[Vica]

From what I see everything looks fine,
Just make sure your *.ttf font is in the same place as your "skin.xml"

and your "skin.BIGNUM" is the player folder.

[nIRV]

note that in all the builds of winamp3 up to now, if you load truetypefont within your skin directory, you will have to unzip the skin or else it just won't take the custom font...

[*Chester*]

It mite work i dunno yet, my WinAmp 3 has ballsed up, no skin works. ill just un-install it and re-install it later

[*Chester*]

AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! now my comp won't take WinAmp 3 at all. it installs it... plays for abit and crashes

[Gonzotek]

Usually deleting studio.xnf will fix the problem, so always try that first. I recommend making a backup copy with your settings after you get things working.

I've had to do more than a couple reinstalls, I've had scripts crash that cause like 10 playlists to show up in the playlist editor, all with zero items. And the db has wigged out before, as well. But 2.5 has been pretty good in terms of reinstalls, I don't recall having to do it.


Install it to a clean directory, then move your skins and scripts over, then delete the old directory. If that doesn't fix it, there's more going on than just Winamp issues.

-=Gonzotek=-

[pixelpusher]

Oh yeah, The good ol days of the first alphas. We used to have
to uninstall and reinstall all the time. By the time you got done
working with a new skin, you had a couple dozen copies of studio.xnf
in the recycle bin. And you had to shut winamp down and restart to
see changes in your skin.

Do what gonzo said and it should be fine.

In case you don't know studio.xnf is in the root folder of Winamp 3
Its a text file that Winamp writes to tell it your last settings.

Pixelpusher.