DigitalFX 4.0

**klundy** · 03-15-2008, 07:50 PM

Wow John. You've out done yourself this time. 3rd contribution on it's way (hint hint everyone else)

With the new version, I decided to take the opportunity to rebuild everything as I was having a hibernate issue. Before I did that, I tried 3.0 and didn't see any problems.

After rebuilding XP and installing RR, Winamp and 3.0 I've run into a problem. A search has not yielded a solution.

When I click on change skin color, I get a black and white screen. The color wheels for screen and font are not there. I tried just clicking around in the general area to see if they were there but invisible. Nothing happened. Yes, I went and downloaded the flash player from the first FAQ.

Thanks again John for your long hours of effort.

Kevin

**JohnWPB** · 03-15-2008, 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by CoryF

Thanks for the fast responce John

John I see your using a Fusion Brain, I was just wondering if you could post how you have it set up in the skin. I just got the Fusion Brain but dont really know where to start on embedding it into the skin.
THANKS

I have honestly not even had a chance to do anything with the Fusion Brain as of yet. I do, down the road, plan to control the door locks and windows with it.

Originally Posted by klundy

When I click on change skin color, I get a black and white screen. The color wheels for screen and font are not there. I tried just clicking around in the general area to see if they were there but invisible. Nothing happened. Yes, I went and downloaded the flash player from the first FAQ.

Thanks again John for your long hours of effort.Kevin

I realize you installed flash, but this is still 100% a flash issue. That screen embeds a .swf (Shockwave flash file) Something with the flash install is not working somewhere. Try installing with Internet explorer, even completely removing it and try installing again.... Each machine reacts differently with flash, so its unfortunately a bit of trial and error.

**chuckctv** · 03-15-2008, 10:33 PM

I have it mostly working myself. anyone have the XM-radio working? if so did they have to do anything special?

MobileRam

**maniaxzero** · 03-15-2008, 11:14 PM

Thanks alot john for all the hard work you put into version 3.0, I really like the new ilists and the color themes.

I have one major problem tho...version 3.0 seems to be missing the library search function i love so much on version 2.5 Did you purposely leave that the library search out on this version or is there some kind of settings to turn it back on? I've been playing with it for an hour and i still can't figure it out. Any help is appreciated.

TIA.

**Blue ZX3** · 03-16-2008, 12:53 AM

He burried it on the search button as the hold down cmd, but don't get too used to it being there in the next release, which will have my Media plugin doing all that...

**sveliov** · 03-16-2008, 02:08 AM

I dont understand it, i just installed xp pro and now when i click on manage playlists, RR freezes up and i have to ctrl alt del. Can someone help

**maniaxzero** · 03-16-2008, 02:10 AM

Originally Posted by Blue ZX3

He burried it on the search button as the hold down cmd, but don't get too used to it being there in the next release, which will have my Media plugin doing all that...

ahh i see. thanks mucho. Even though im currently 99% satisfy with the library search, im really looking forward to your media plugin. Keep up the good work dood!

**elimenohpee** · 03-16-2008, 07:39 AM

Looks great, can't wait to fiddle around with it!

**Machinehead** · 03-16-2008, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by JohnWPB

The templates for the XM / Sirius favorites is in the DigitalFX 3.0/Helper Files/ folder. The icons are in Road Runner/XM. Just drag the icons onto the template in Photoshop or your favorite image folder. You will need to edit the XM Favorites skin to change the channel numbers to match your stations.

NOTE: The XM icons are in PNG format, and just renamed to .gif so RR will display them. If you attempt to load them into Photoshop, it will complain that the file can not be loaded, as it things it is a gif, and cant load it as such. Road Runner is smart enough to look at the header in the image file to determine what kind of image it actually is, believe it or not, Photoshop is not that smart

The templates are actually out of date, it looks like they're for the 2.5 version of DFX. I went and pulled together my own photoshop file with the 3.0 version.

Enjoy.

Edit: I noticed after the fact that there was some bad blending with lighter backgrounds, so I tweaked that so it looks less half-arsed. Also, you will need to modify the XM_Favorite.skin, there are issues with the selection areas, and of course you need to set your channels as well.

**blk02si** · 03-16-2008, 11:08 AM

Very Nice! Everything stable over here, every time I play with DFX I discover something new about it! The only request I have is a release in binary form. I really don't like the installer at all, maybe its just me, but I find the installer to actually complicate the install of a skin. I use non-standard paths so these types of skins packaged with an installer I just extract to a temp directory and start working from there.