Shock Skin v4 Transparent Released

**treetop777** · 09-14-2007, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by crooper

I customized the skin for my own needs (cutting out sat radio, FM), added system status, a persistent time/date display, album art, vis, etc. After I finish it up I could post my skin files if anyone's interested.

Nice mods!

I was about to ask but i see you are still using V3 (so am I); you should look at the code in V4 to eliminate that black bar behind the highlighted song.

I would be very interested in the shuffle indicator if you don't mind sharing that also.

**blk02si** · 09-14-2007, 09:33 PM

Nice work crooper! I remember you mentioning you were working up a static clock and such. Layout looks really good, actually gives me more ideas

and that why I share. I really wanted this skin to be simple to modify and its great to see customized versions being posted. If you need hosting to share your modded code base let me know.

pwntbypat, you can code the back button to always return to main menu if that suits your use. Just need to change the command on each screen.

There was some things I really liked about v3 and had a feeling some people would like it better than 4. Version 4 is just plain out quicker on my via though.

On another note I finally configured Xport on my carPC to share my GPS between RR and IG. I am thinking about adding some more speedo labels so I know how fast im going when im looking at the PC and not the road.

Xport was tough to get it running at boot since my XPE build had RR set as shell. I ended up using the autostart function in RR to launch xport even though Im still trying to find a way to launch it on an OS level. Since explorer.exe is not set to shell I could not get XP to auto start Xport on boot. Still need to tweak some things but my INFO screen up up and working good. Im thinking about changing the header label to a picture/arrow style heading.

**treetop777** · 09-14-2007, 10:04 PM

I'll probably end-up with more of a V3 on steroids after incorporating some of v4 features into v3. I particularly like the new video slider; you have total control of videos once you change "next" and "Prev" to "nextrack" and "prevtrack"

I also done some slightly heavy mod to the background browser 'cause i like to see a preview of the background before i select it.

**crooper** · 09-15-2007, 04:37 AM

Thanks, blk02si!! (and everyone else who's interested) Yes my skin is in v3. I downloaded v4 and I'll see about switching to that. I do find that I get lags switching screens sometimes (on my dual core gaming machine), so I can only imagine what'll happen on my slow carpc.

One thing I can't figure out how to do easily is change the "NAV" button to say "GPS". It's a little thing, but it would be nice. The first skin I modded was CFX, and I believe all its menus were text in the psd files.

I cleaned up your psd files a bit too. I'll post these along with the rest whenever I get around to finishing the skin.

**crooper** · 09-15-2007, 04:43 AM

Cool mod treetop777. I decided against putting album art on the main screen because of the vis and because it looked cluttered. Plus the coolest thing about the skin is the background image, and the album art obscures that. I also have a flash clock I used with my modded CFX, but again I decided against including it with my Shock skin.

How did you get the background image to show up when selected? I tried to get that to work and eventually gave up.

**ThunderStick** · 09-15-2007, 07:28 AM

Originally Posted by crooper

How did you get the background image to show up when selected? I tried to get that to work and eventually gave up.

What he said... PLEASE SHARE

**treetop777** · 09-15-2007, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by crooper

How did you get the background image to show up when selected? I tried to get that to work and eventually gave up.

It's not hard, just a little complicated. It involves converting the background.skin into a picviewer.skin. I'll try to put together a how-to but in the mean time you can look at DFX's background browser and it might hit you. Shock already has all the necessary code except for one line (the "J" line if i remember correctly); add that line and then make Shocks button code to change the BG (begins with SETVARBYCODE) identical to DFX's (towards the end of the line you'll see the difference) - save.

You then have to rename Shock's BG.skin to PicViewer.skin and change "background" button command in the "SET" screen to "LOAD;PickViewer.skin.

The drawback is that i haven't figured out how to use the new background variable in RR so your picture path in rr.in should point to the BG folder in Shock.

If you also have DFX installed then there would be a conflict since DFX wants you to point the picture path to the DFX BG folder. In that case, place a BG folder in a central location (mine is in "my pictures") and point picture path to it. Then place an identical copy of that central BG folder in Shock and DFX's folders and it will work. The drawback is that now you require 3 BG folders in different places instead of just one in Shock's folder.

You can do it with most recent transparent skins since they have almost the same BG browser code.

I'll try to come up with an easy(er) how-to

**blk02si** · 09-15-2007, 01:28 PM

I'm also working on using the background variable to implement the standard background directory. I want the skin to follow the generally accepted way of setting things up so this is important. I just started learning and messing with the variables but this will def. be in place in a future version. Shock v4 is the only skin I have on my carPC so I forget that most others have many skins installed and having a separate background folder for each skin is impractical.

Thank you for the point in the right direction treetop, you have been helping me out since shock v1!

**Area3** · 09-15-2007, 01:47 PM

Ok Houston We have a Problem

After Updating Road Runner I Cannot Get My Music To Play?

It loads winamp But No music

**blk02si** · 09-15-2007, 01:53 PM

This is a RR issue not a shock skin issue. Read the new RR doc's carefully and fully as you need to register a DLL file due to the new modular approach to using different backend players.