Freeway (CCFR) Official Thread

[marazi]

sign me up as a beta tester and keep the great work up

[-zip-]

I will Beta as well

[oeri]

Very limited skinning support completed. The entire main screen is skinnable, as well as the backgrounds of other dialogs. That's probably going to be all for skinning that's going to be released for the first beta. The features are what's important, right?

Once I get a few betas out there, I plan on creating a Centrafuse/RR to Freeway skin converter. We'll see how that goes.



Cheers!
-oeri

[Eubey]

can you give us a demo exe of just the skinning functionality so that those of us that want to make a freeway skin can get started?

[oeri]

************************************************** **************

THIS IS A CRIPPLED VERSION OF THE FREEWAY BETA DESIGNED SOLELY
FOR SKIN TESTING.

Please MANUALLY edit the "FREEWAY.INI" file and ensure that the
"0=" line is pointing to your WinAmp path. This is the only
line needed to run this beta.

YOU MUST INSTALL THE FONTS IN THE "FONTS" DIRECTORY BEFORE
RUNNING THE BETA

************************************************** **************

AGAIN, THIS IS NOT A TECHNOLOGY OR FUNCTIONALITY PREVIEW OF FREEWAY. THIS IS ONLY FOR SKIN TESTING PURPOSES, PER FORUM USERS' REQUEST.

http://freeway.oerinet.net/

[CdRsKuLL]

Looking good.. glad you have used a .ini for the skin file.

Would it be possible to use Hex colour values rather than vb dec ones ?

code attached :-)

Public Function HexToDec(valHex)

'first swap em round
Dim first As String
Dim second As String
Dim third As String
first = Mid(valHex, (Len(valHex) - 1), 2)
second = Mid(valHex, (Len(valHex) - 3), 2)
third = Mid(valHex, (Len(valHex) - 5), 2)
'rebuild hex
valHex = first + second + third

HexToDec = CLng("&H" & Trim(valHex))
End Function

usage - lblheading.ForeColor = HexToDec(place(7))

will have a play later with your skinners release demo :-)

[dvsmex]

sign me up as a beta tester, This sounds great!!!!

[Jarrod]

Use XML for the skin, please! ini files are so last year

[oeri]

Use XML for the skin, please! ini files are so last year

I know people will have mixed feelings on this. I personally prefer to use my own format, and I absolutely hate XML. But let me know what you guys think.

[oeri]

Looking good.. glad you have used a .ini for the skin file.

Would it be possible to use Hex colour values rather than vb dec ones ?

Yes. This is implemented in the current crippled release.

Thanks for the code, but not necessary