Skinned Preferences (v0.86 - 25/03/2007)

[DrO]

Skinned Preferences

Being the kind person i am, i thought i'd work on improving skin support for my Jump to File Extended and Extended Playlist plugins.

At the same time i thought i'd make another little plugin that i want which would also allow me to improve skin handling.

So attached is my current build of the plugin i'm working on (what another one - doesn't that guy have anything else to do!?!?! ). A preview of this was posted here.

It's still an EARLY RELEASE but it shows things as they stand.
* no frame support
* skin style doesn't update when you change the current skin
* link controls are skinned when they shouldn't be
* tab controls are partially handled
* static controls are overriden ie the file type icons don't show


Any issues ie crashes, etc then please let me know and as always enjoy!

-daz

[Dipso]

You are one insane coding maniac

[DrO]

just insane i think

-daz

[D&B]

Im at work so I cant try it, but I saw a screenshot from DJ Egg and it looked great.

Ill give a try when I get home.

[DrO]

i'm not certain on this but it may even be possible to use the eventual core of this plugin to work on any winamp dialog but it's still a glimmer of a thought at the moment (pushing a few ideas around at the moment about that and maybe even menus as well )

-daz

[Plague]

I saw the preview screenshot back then and loved it!
When this plugin is finished, it'll really rock, it already shows incredible potential!

great work, as always.

-Plague

[mark e]

_When going to preferences::

WINAMP caused a general protection fault
in module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff73641.
Registers:
EAX=00000001 CS=0167 EIP=bff73641 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=016f ESP=00000001 EBP=0073cffc
ECX=00000000 DS=016f ESI=00000084 FS=4527
EDX=01b63558 ES=016f EDI=00000001 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
5f 5e c9 c2 0c 00 52 51 33 c0 48 50 50 65 ff 32
Stack dump:
65000000 16007004 650c4d00 65007004 54007004 79f000ff 21f000ea 00f000ea d212bb00 3a107b08 520c4d00 6a0c4d00 820c4d00 9a0c4d00 650c4d00 0b007004

_Running:: Win98, WA5RC666, Default Modern Skin (With unoffical color theme)...

[Reaper]

Hmm.. odd bug on the buttons in the plugin sections. Perhaps this is the "link controls are skinned when they shouldn't be" you mentioned?

[Dextro]

Cool, can't wait to see this plugin working (got that some error Reaper).

I forsee that someday everyone will use Dr. O's Plugins but who am I to say that?

[Wetzel]

that's pretty darn nifty, heh.

it's working fine for me, in winXP pro SP1, but i am getting the same problem as Reaper with the buttons, and it seems for some preferences (like JTFE) the names of the tabs dissapear, but then for media library it looks fine . . .

[DrO]

@Reaper: yeah that's the link issue

@Plague: just adapted to handle any dialog now (just the open file dialog not working and i've had issues with hacking that beforehand!) even the browse for... dialogs are handled (may put something up tomorrow to test the changes out on at least XP systems )

@mark e: i'm working on improving Win98 compatibility (finally got my old 98 system up again to test on )

@Wetzel: that's fixed now - basically in the release version it depends on the level of the windows from the parent and i wasn't handling all levels correctly. but it's fixed now.

-daz

[Plague]

coo.
oh, one thing, could you add an option to turn it off?

-Plague

[DrO]

that'll be added soon
since it's now gone to the next stage of development i'll be adding a few basic config options to hopefully give a bit of control over what is done

-daz

[maximumw]

If you fixed the wetzel,reaper and my problem with button where are that plugin!!! And here is an idea for playlist menu next to a view file info can it be a open file location like in winamp3?

[WHEREamI]

(just the open file dialog not working and i've had issues with hacking that beforehand!)

Isn't that because it uses the OS's file dialog? or is that what ur saying? I wouldn't worry about hacking that though. Get it to work with everything else, and everyone will be happy. More than happy. Ecstatic!

~WHEREamI