Thread: SW2 update

The biggest contribution will be skins by other users, which (at least for me) is a fairly daunting task. So far there are almost 50 individual graphic elements and well over 200 skin definitions for colors, polygons, rectangles, fonts, etc. This could easily double by the time it's released

Any skinning specs available yet? I can work with my artistically-inclined significant other to try and come up with some usable skins.

Originally Posted by Change

Any skinning specs available yet? I can work with my artistically-inclined significant other to try and come up with some usable skins.

I can make the skinning specs and default graphics available once I finish fleshing out the mp3library stuff I guess. There is still tons to do but there is certainly enough to keep you busy for a while

Nifty.

I could help translating to Spanish if you want to release a Spanish version. Please pm o mail me in case you are interested.

Thanks!

That would certainly be welcome! Many of the translations would involve changes to the skin graphics but there are a few places where hardcoded text would need to be translated. The speech phrases would also need to be spoken in Spanish and any sound files that contain speech.

I hadn't actually even thought about it but that's a good idea. I'll probably wait for v2.1 to make it fully multi-lingual with language files instead of hardcoded text just because there is so much other stuff to do.

I should probably provide some French and German translations too. My wife and I speak French (hers is perfect, mine is passable ). The only Spanish I know is from when I was a kid in the southern states so a bonafide Spanish translation would certainly be cool.

There are a few people that have offerred to create skins for the alpha release so I'll add you to the list. If you could leave a note on swaesbb.intuitionsys.com that would help me remember! Thanks...

I'm looking forward to this! I am trying to avoid Winblows at all costs in my car. Your FE looks great!

The MP3 Player/Library is close to completion now. I'm just working on the on-screen keyboard as part of the MP3 Library search function. It takes a while to map the polygons for that many buttons Once that's working I can release a pre-pre-pre-alpha for the artists out there...

One thing I should note is that since it won't even be ready for alpha release, I'd prefer to only release the source and default app tree to those who have offered to do skins and translations. Once it's ready for alpha it'll be up on my site for everybody but I'd prefer to keep propagation to a mimimum while it's in its infancy. Basically, the only thing that works is some limited import functionality and the MP3 Player/Library module. I hope I can make it available by the end of the week but I won't promise anything yet...

Could everyone willing to do skins or translations (in any language besides English and French) pm me or (better) e-mail me? Thanks...

Attached are new and/or updated screenshots of the MP3 Player, MP3 Library and OSK. I think the OSK is a bit too transparent but nothing that couldn't be fixed easily in Gimp.