told you it would be back! (look inside for more info)

[Plague]

here you have the first public proof that when I said the Wa2 - Wa3 skin converter template would be back later in one form or another, I meant it!
I'm currently working on the wa2skin.wac for Winamp3/Wasabi Player (yes, the "official" one, Brennan was kind enough to release the source for it in the sdk) and here's a screenshot of it's current state.

Not visible in this screenshot are the more or less finished video and minibrowser windows..

titlebar on standardframe will come later, maybe much later, it's pretty low priority right now.
Possible bugs and more important features comes first..

The standardframe uses colors from both genex.bmp and pledit.txt, depending the use..

The shuffle slider in the prefs is pretty much the only thing I haven't found a replacement for or even a color (for it's gammagroup) in wa2 skins.

This is just a very early teaser of what to come later, but don't ask when because I don't know and it could take alot of time before anyone gets to play with it.

And just to make it clear, this will not be released separately at all, it will be a part of the main installation only!

-Plague

[Bizzeh]

plague == pwn

[Gonzotek]

You da man. Does my heart a lot of good to know wasabi development is moving onward outside of wa5.

[WHEREamI]

nice work plague! It looks great. this should help appease some of those who resist the new Wasabi era! Would it be possible to see just one screen-shot of it working with a non-default skin (a popular, complete one)? might be an even better teaser.

~WHEREamI

[Plague]

your wish is my command.
Skin = Nucleo Nlog

enjoy!

-Plague

[WHEREamI]

Thanks Plague! still looks great. The white text is a bit hard to read in the prefs, but i'm not complaining. I'm sure it looks better or worse in other skins, depending on how they're made.

Keep it up.

~WHEREamI

[DrO]

woot! (now makes sense for your post in the skins forum )

-daz

[Plague]

WHEREamI: yea, I know about the white text, it's a bug in Wasabi that I'm trying to find a solution for. Somehow, some of the fonts are blended with the background if the background is very light colored (I think), but I have no idea yet how to fix it, if possible...
It will be looked into tho and sooner or later, it will be fixed.

DrO: heh, yea I guess it does..

-Plague

[Plague]

ok, think it's time for a little status update.
I have a new sreenie for ya'll.
Most stuff I've been working on lately have been non-visible stuff, but there are two things to notice in this screenie:

1. notice how it's running in wasabi.player, not Winamp3.
This doesn't mean anything other than wa2skin.wac beeing compatible with 499c but it's still worth mentioning

2. notice the preferences page and the config registry page.
Yes you thought right, wa2skin.wac has its own set of settings.
Notice that I hijacked the Skins section in the preferences and made the wa2skin page a child to that section. What do you think about that, is it a good place or should I move it somewhere else?

kthnxbye

-Plague

[WHEREamI]

2. Yah, i think that's a good place for it. makes more sense than leaving it outside on its own, i think.

Lookin' good!

~WHEREamI

[Plague]

my other idea was to have it in the system section instead, labeled "Classic Skin support".

Would that be better or worse?

-Plague

[Gonzotek]

I like it how it is in the screenshot. It's logical that classic skin prefs would branch from all skin prefs, and (and I know this isn't very relevent) it follows suit with the Winamp5 skin prefs positioning.

[Plague]

winamp 5 had nothing to do with the decision, it was pure logic, but yeah you're right, it does follow suit with it..

final decision (unless overridden by bas): it stays!

-Plague

[WHEREamI]

Good call!

[Kamika007z]

Can any one of you fix a tiny bug in winamp3's default skin for it to work properly on winamp5? Don't get me wrong, it works well however, when trying to play a video it sometimes would not play at all and all you'd get is the audio playing. I've tried it with various winamp3/wasabi skins starting from 488 to 499c... Anyone out there willing to help?

Thank you,
John