How ?

[ariszlo]

Where did you find this layout tag ariszlo?

In Drone, designed by 883 and coded by R. Peter Clark: resubmitted.Drone_v1.wal

[PeterK.]

In Drone, designed by 883 and coded by R. Peter Clark: resubmitted.Drone_v1.wal

And this tag does what?

I was wondering because

• I have never seen it before
• it is not in the official <layout/> section

Could it be this is a relikt from distant Winamp times? Winamp 3? Wasabi Player? Classic Skin?

[ariszlo]

And this tag does what?[

Allows the layout to be positioned independently of the normal layout.

Could it be this is a relikt from distant Winamp times? Winamp 3? Wasabi Player? Classic Skin?

I am puzzled at it, too. It is not in the Winamp 3 default skin, and Classic skins do not have such attributes.

[parisienne17]

it works ! (you're the man they says).

Do you mind sharing the updated switch layouts as I don't have any player-compact-regions.png in the png folder.

And watch the compactviz layout in action!

[ariszlo]

Do you mind sharing the updated switch layouts as I don't have any [I]player-compact-regions.png in the png folder.

Here is the link again: Study_Layouts.zip

And here is switchleftclick.zip for your 7 layouts. It will only work if the id's in your xml files are the same as those between quotation marks in the System.onScriptLoaded() function.

[PeterK.]

Add this to the layout tag of your stick layout:

unlinked="1" 

I just ran a scan on old modern skins and found two with "unlinked" tag in the layout sections:



This tag apparently used to be a part of the layout section but not for the id="normal" but id="shade", this tiny bar full of microscopic buttons I never was fond of.

[ariszlo]

This tag apparently used to be a part of the layout section but not for the id="normal" but id="shade", this tiny bar full of microscopic buttons I never was fond of.

And it still...

works !

[ariszlo]

Now there are two skins in my how folder to show how you can switch between seven different layouts: an updated version of Study Layouts and a completely new Sevenovem.

In Study Layouts, two layouts have windowholders for visualization. The background images of layouts with windowholders can only have fully opaque and fully transparent pixels, no gradual transitions between the two extremes. Layouts with windowholders may also have issues with some window shapes. The Study Layouts skin offers two workarounds for having a windowholder in a layout with an irregularly shaped window background:

• player-compact-vis.xml uses an extra layer behind the windowholder
• player-compact-vis-regions.xml uses regions

In Sevenovem, what looks like a main window with embedded visualization is in fact separate windows. The visualization window is fit into a transparent rectangle of the player window. Since the player and the visualization window are two different windows, the visualization window has no effect on the player background, which can have all possible alpha values.

[parisienne17]

I'll have to look at it !
I'll be away for a few days as my windows 10 became so sluggish that I had to wait 10, 15s for a photoshop action to take place or near that time for the xml editor to laucn and open 4 files.
I did a fresh factory reset to be facing with an 0xc0000005 error when trying to install the photoshop I was using a few days ago...
The better being this OS so... whatever, version number after version number.

I stepped from a fullly working W7 unable to provide dark mode and some blinding black text/white backgrounds even using stardock's windowblinds, to W10's dark mode showing parts of the UI in the same black on white even with the same windowblinds.
I tried W11 to find that the same UI parts are STILL not dark moded.

Gates should have been kicking butts at microsoft rather than shitting people with it's GAVI/OMS/Epstein business...

[ariszlo]

Time to buy a new pc and install Ubuntu on the old one.

[parisienne17]

Nah... Pc just doing fine for a... Waoo.. Near 12 years old machine.
The best part... Besides phtshop I was having issue ibtalling open shell classic menu, a github open source start menu replacement for that I don't know who came with this ugly unproductive, unuseful thing in W10. This open shell, I was using it in my last W10...
Anyway...

On the 4th windows installation, I launch the installation and get, instead of no result at all, no opening, no nothing at all of the 3 previous tryouts, I get a "this software has/is a virus... blah blah".
Turn off that piece of %£/!"à defender, relaunch the app and it starts and install.
Phtshop did well too.

So... I think that burkisoft is plaguing people as I did the install without being connected to the internet. Whatever was downloaded during installation, drivers or I don't know what was obviously interfering.
I'm on this since 2 days, I'm fed up at the moment, sad & crying on my birthday, i'm off to some bad news and disturbing France prospective on youtube.

[parisienne17]

I've finally found the culprit of the 0xc0000005 more & more popping error : an infested machine.
I have to confess that it was... 3, 4 years it was used without any AV solution, alongside "black market" software. ;.)

So... I'm afraid that the region solution doesn't provide any alternative for having a... Curtain above AVS window. At least for the attemps I have made.

I recall that at the beginning of our discussion you provided one way to do it when I discovered that moving the player did put the AVS back on top of it, above the designed rounded area. I'll have to go back in this thread or I'm afraid that there is no way to have in winamp this kind of skin :

[ariszlo]

I'm afraid that there is no way to have in winamp this kind of skin :

Exactly like that, no. But you can do something slightly similar with animated layers and maki as in the MMD3 skin:
MMD3 Vis 01, MMD3 Vis 02, MMD3 Vis 03, MMD3 Vis - Kugellicht

[parisienne17]

Yep... Except that these aren't any visualisations but a succession of pictures. I meant something coming from milkdrop or anything of that kind.

I'm just (not) amazed by more modern media player not able to do as older ones like sonique, QCD/QMP.

I'll stick with plain squared visualisations on top.

[ariszlo]

Personally, I prefer Milkdrop's desktop mode. NEVERTHELESS THERE WILL BE A PLEASANT SURPRISE TO YOU IN MY NEXT POST!

The molten neon fire spirit preset by Felix Woitzel in Milkdrop's desktop mode: