Shock Skin v4 Transparent Released

**Sal R.** · 09-12-2007, 12:20 AM

Originally Posted by C4DAO

I then checked my playlist direction "E:\Playlists" and rrr.m3u is in there, but again it doesn't show up anywhere in RR?

Try this. Add the following line in rr.ini
audiofiles=.m3u,.mp3

Originally Posted by C4DAO

I went into the MP3 menu and selected visual, and you can see the visual display pop up behind the winamp playlist. Clicking it brings it to the front but it cannot be dragged, although you can right-click it to access the various options. Shouldn't it automatically embed?

Later versions of winamp5.x has had problems w/ the vis embedding properly.

2.95 is tried and true.

I'm using 5.13 and works fine.

**C4DAO** · 09-12-2007, 05:43 AM

@ blk02si / Sal R

Thanks for the advice - sorted it now. Path for my playlists was defined correctly, but the music path wasn't.

Still can't sort out the visual plugin, so I've gone back to the standard AVS - looks fine!

Thanks again for all the help!

**enitalp** · 09-12-2007, 06:36 AM

Nice !. Now i have homework to do.

**chevyn8** · 09-12-2007, 11:53 AM

The skin works great, very easy to change button labels and button commands using the skin editor. I did change that bit of code for the playlist skin (to the rr playlist variable) and it works great. (Screen cap is via VNC so the quality isn't perfect)

**blk02si** · 09-12-2007, 10:29 PM

Looks good chevy, I like that background. Im glad to see people taking advantage of the new code and features.

Q. for Sal

Do you think it would be ok to define the label colors like this example:

L,712,3,74,45,#R#,#G#,#B#,30,"ISOCPEUR:B","=SET"," CENTER"

Then have SHOCKCOLORDEFINITION.txt look like this:

/,Shock Font Color
/DEFINE R 255
/DEFINE G 255
/DEFINE B 255

Its the same code just simplified a bit (- the shocks). Now what typ of app or how do I go about picking a color from a menu and having it write the RGB values to the SHOCKCOLORDEFINITION.txt?

Hand editing would not be bad because those 3 values would be a global color definition on the skin labels, but adding a simple color selector would be really nice. Im going to do some research into this and add a menu_3 for testing and building this color code.

Also here is a screen cap of the analyzer configured running the audio_gps.skin

Keep the screeners coming!! love to see different contrasting backgrounds on other peoples builds.

**enitalp** · 09-12-2007, 10:53 PM

Looks good, but you should had animated gif

**EL CAMINO** · 09-12-2007, 11:01 PM

a friendly advice, would be good idea to make a patch for iGuidance, to remove all the buttons not needed, or make them match to your skin, like lsxvoid, and some more skins out there have.your skin is getting very popular so why not, i can see sal is giving you some very good advices.

**chevyn8** · 09-12-2007, 11:40 PM

Just for fun I added a big visual skin with the controls at the bottom (I'm learning some basic skinning)...the center of the main menu loads it.

**blk02si** · 09-12-2007, 11:43 PM

I use LSX's patch in the car. This screencap is from my freshly formatted desktop

iGuidance is very tedious to skin, I wish there was some sort of batch program to simplify, I just don't have it in me to go through 300 some odd bitmaps using resource hackers clunky interface to swap em out.

**RichP714** · 09-13-2007, 12:19 AM

Originally Posted by Sal R.

Changing label colors is actually very simple.

For example.....

another way to do it, which is a bit more versatile......

Add to each .skin file an include...

INC,whatever.txt

in whatevr.txt define the colors rgb values...

/DEFINE ButColor 239,245,188
/DEFINE ListColor 108,234,140
/DEFINE FoldColor 87,188,135
/DEFINE HLColor 248,160,71
/DEFINE BKGColor 49,42,35
/DEFINE IndColor 248,160,71
/DEFINE ItemColor 248,160,71
/DEFINE GroupColor 239,245,188

now in each skin file you can use these variables as rgb values...

L,600,3,74,45,#ButColor#,30,"ISOCPEUR:B","=APP","C ENTER"
L,484,3,74,45,#ButColor#,30,"ISOCPEUR:B","=VID","C ENTER"
L,357,3,90,45,#ButColor#,30,"ISOCPEUR:B","=NAV","C ENTER"
L,244,3,89,45,#ButColor#,30,"ISOCPEUR:B","=SAT","C ENTER"
L,120,3,98,45,#ButColor#,30,"ISOCPEUR:B","=FM","CE NTER"
L,13,3,85,45,#ButColor#,30,"ISOCPEUR:B","=MP3","CE NTER"
L,11,340,136,63,#ItemColor#,48,"DS-Digital","VOLUME","LEFT"
L,2,74,344,30,#ItemColor#,18,"ISOCPEUR","AUDIOTRAC K","SCROLL-LEFT"
L,576,342,216,62,#IndColor#,48,"DS-Digital","TIME","RIGHT"
L,658,76,137,28,#IndColor#,18,"ISOCPEUR","DATE","R IGHT"

Now you can change ALL the label colors by editing whatever.txt and you can have different colors for button labels, lists, indicators, scrolling text, etc....

each define takes the place of an rgb group in the skin file, so playlists would look something like this...

S01,217,89,522,382,#ListColor#,#BKGColor#,#ListCol or#,#BKGColor#,#HLColor#,TRUE,25,"Neuropol:B"