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[Jace]

Ran into a (very) minor graphical bug when fiddling around. If the position slider mask area is tilted (see attached image for example) and is hovered with the mouse, the left end lights up correctly; only inside the mask area. But the right end ignores the shape of the mask and simply squares it, highlighting pixels outside the position slider area.
This only seems to happen when knob_pos.bmp is used though.
<edit> Downloaded newest stuff-version, seems to work fine now.. Not sure if something was updated or if I just had been doing done something wrong. ;I  Probably both, so cheers, Ian! </edit>

Also a little request: color_seethru support for slider bitmaps. So if you have the defined seethrough colour appearing in a slider (for example slider_horiz.bmp), the area shows what is behind it (quite logically ).
<edit> Works like a charm, thank you! </edit>

<edit> Attached image removed </edit>


Take 2:

The new slanted slider works well, apart from a slight graphical glitch when near beginning or end of the song.
On left end, the normal background shows up on the left end of the slider and on right end the new knob_bitmap shows up under the right end of the slider. Attached image should explain what I'm after better.

One way to fix it would be to always center the slider on the current song position, but that might cause issues with some older skins (slider going out of boundaries).
Another (safer? possibly!) way would be to keep the song position centered in the middle of the slider. In other words, take slider_horiz.bmp width (for horizontal sliders), half it and set that much padding on both ends of the slider. (For example, if width = 5, make the actual song position area start on the third pixel from left and end three pixels from the right end.)

It is very low priority though, it looks just as good without the slider blob too.

Image left end: Showing the left end problem.
Image right end: Showing the right end problem.

[Maserati]

I'd like to sneak-in or reiterate a little request -

something like "color_currenttrack= FFFFFF" a skin option to give the currently playing track a different color from the rest of the playlist

[Ian @ un4seen]

Another (hopefully trivial) suggestion: Text shadow (font_xshadowcolor, font_xshadowoffset) for, let's say, main/mini title and time display? It's difficult to make text on a metal/silver background gel nicely if you can't make it look "etched" using a simple text shadow.

I'll look into it.

One obvious option would be to adopt the top-rated existing skin on the support site as the default, with the author's permission, of course. The new-skins contest two years ago caused too much aggravation, and a special users' vote on existing skins would presumably more or less reflect the support-site ratings anyway.

The current top rated skin seems to be "iXMPlay", but I don't think it'd be a good idea to have XMPlay's default skin being based on another player. The older skins don't have all the new features (eg. queue list), so aren't really an option, although I reckon an updated "Section" could be good. Anyway, I just mentioned it incase anyone had some good skin ideas/designs simmering

<edit> Downloaded newest stuff-version, seems to work fine now.. Not sure if something was updated or if I just had been doing done something wrong. ;I  Probably both, so cheers, Ian! </edit>

I don't think I made any changes to that stuff, but I'll take it anyway

The new slanted slider works well, apart from a slight graphical glitch when near beginning or end of the song.
On left end, the normal background shows up on the left end of the slider and on right end the new knob_bitmap shows up under the right end of the slider. Attached image should explain what I'm after better.

To better understand the problem, could you please upload the panel and mask bitmaps?

something like "color_currenttrack= FFFFFF" a skin option to give the currently playing track a different color from the rest of the playlist

Ok, a "color_listcurrent" skinconfig option has been added...

   www.un4seen.com/stuff/xmplay.exe

[Maserati]

WOOT Thanks Ian!  BTW I completely agree about a future XMplay default skin in that it should be unique to XMplay.   

[Brian]

I agree about iXMPlay, but XLXM appears to have an equally high rating, and is also relatively new. I can only reiterate my view that another new-skin contest would be undesirable (that's assuming that there is to be some role for user opinion in the choice of a new default skin).

[raina]

Agreed on XLXM. Although the skin is a tad tall for my liking, it would make a good default skin. It has all the controls and stuff an XMPlay (or any other prog) player window should have and I'd say it is a little easier to approach than the current one because of the layout of the panels. About the only complaint to be expected would be about the minimode being about the size of a certain media player in normal mode. This means you can't replace that certain media player with XMPlay out-of-the-box since there's no windowshade mode.

[Lashiec]

It also needs support for non-english characters and for other various characters like ² and '. Right now, it shows a blank space.

[Brian]

I'm hoping that if there is a realistic prospect of his skin becoming the default, the XLXM author will return and make all necessary modifications.

[Rah'Dick]

I'm for having another competition. Competition is always a good thing if you don't want things to stagnate.

[Brian]

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[Jace]

One more skin-related request.
Find track(s)-mask for main/mini. =)

[markcs]

I agree with raina - XLXM takes up too much space when in mini mode for my liking.

And it would be great if the default skin worked nicely with the new 'mouse-over' feature Ian has implemented in the last month or so - in a similar way the Silk skin does. 

[Y@nek®]

Ian, can you add a transparency optinion (WinXP/Win2k) in to XMPlay skin? 

[Ian @ un4seen]

One more skin-related request.
Find track(s)-mask for main/mini. =)

Although not applicable in mini-mode, there is a "Find track(s)" option in the playlist panel (mask 19), which you could make appear part of the main panel

Ian, can you add a transparency optinion (WinXP/Win2k) in to XMPlay skin? 

Do you mean per-pixel alpha, or overall transparancy for the whole skin? If overall transparancy, I think that'd be better as a user option rather than a skinning option, if at all

[Y@nek®]

One more skin-related request.
Find track(s)-mask for main/mini. =)

Although not applicable in mini-mode, there is a "Find track(s)" option in the playlist panel (mask 19), which you could make appear part of the main panel

Ian, can you add a transparency optinion (WinXP/Win2k) in to XMPlay skin? 

Do you mean per-pixel alpha, or overall transparancy for the whole skin? If overall transparancy, I think that'd be better as a user option rather than a skinning option, if at all

I mean - overall transparancy option.

[raina]

Ian, can you add a transparency optinion (WinXP/Win2k) in to XMPlay skin? 

Do you mean per-pixel alpha, or overall transparancy for the whole skin? If overall transparancy, I think that'd be better as a user option rather than a skinning option, if at all

I mean - overall transparancy option.

I'll have the per-pixel flavour, please.