Shock Skin v4 Transparent Released

**blk02si** · 09-18-2007, 07:11 PM

The jpeg previews in the directory list are handled by RoadRunner.exe not the skin. First You need to have showicons=true in rr.ini, The line in audio_browser

Code:

SD,00,01,48,48,

Is what defines the icon type and size. If you use

Code:

SD,00,02,96,96,

This will show Icon mode with even larger art. Lastly your files can be anything.jpg, thats why the album art is shown as *.jpg (the * is a wildcard) You can see some of my folders that have no art get the standard rr folder icon.

Just so you know this makes scrolling the list slow, and somewhat unstable. I was able to crash RR using this type of browsing.

Thx crooper for explaining the "SEARCHFILES" command, I've added this to the browsers and it works great, I cannot believe I got along without this button!

crosmo, Map Monkey can be used, just set rr to external gps, and define the path to exe and give rr the window title. You will need to modify the external_gps.skin to use it in full screen. There are comments in that skin about such. Open the .skin file with notepad.

**crooper** · 09-18-2007, 11:56 PM

Ah I didn't even think about the album art slowing it down, I was wondering why the lists were running so slow. It doesn't help that on my dev machine all my mp3s are on a network drive... I still don't have it in my car. Sigh busy week.

Getting Map Monkey to work ideally with my skin will take a bit of script changing, as some of the buttons are specific for Streets. For example, hitting the clock enables GPS, the system status area enables Terrain mode, and the BMV Streets skin is made completely for Streets. Whoever made that skin should be given a medal.

**C4DAO** · 09-19-2007, 12:30 PM

First You need to have showicons=true in rr.ini

That's sorted it - thanks a lot !

**crooper** · 09-20-2007, 05:43 AM

Hey guys I did some work tonight on my "supercharged Shock v3" skin. It's getting a bit more organized and refined. I updated my previous post with the updated file and screen capture. Changes are listed in the readme file. Nothing catacalysmic, but still nice.

**C4DAO** · 09-20-2007, 07:29 AM

Originally Posted by crooper

Hey guys I did some work tonight on my "supercharged Shock v3" skin. It's getting a bit more organized and refined. I updated my previous post with the updated file and screen capture. Changes are listed in the readme file. Nothing catacalysmic, but still nice.

Will check it out tonight. Cheers!

EDIT: Works great! Have you got any more features up your sleave?

**crooper** · 09-20-2007, 03:41 PM

Thanks! I'd like to figure out how to change the song text color on the main menu from light to dark with the touch of a button (to account for light or dark backgrounds). I tried it last night a bit but I don't understand the setvar or switchbutton commands yet. Give me time. :-) My computer science minor pays off in strange ways... lol.

Other things I've already mentioned are adding playlist (m3u) support (press and hold to save, click to load), as well as similar buttons for EQ profiles in the mixer. The latter will likely require a mixer screen redesign, which will probably not happen unless I get a bug up my *** (and an afternoon where I don't feel like doing anything else).

Can you think of anything else that would be cool/useful? I have some "empty" buttons on several screens where I could add functionality.

**treetop777** · 09-20-2007, 06:02 PM

^^ You make it hard to decide what version to use - thanks for sharing.

BTW, I think Blk got some pointers from Sal R on the text colors; hopefully he's working on that too. That would be the ultimate!

**treetop777** · 09-20-2007, 06:48 PM

@ crooper - latest version, went into mixer from main menu and got stuck, the back button don't work; easy fix tho'
Also in the mixer, when you press the volume up/down, the slider goes the opposite way.

**crooper** · 09-21-2007, 04:48 AM

treetop: I've found this too sometimes, which is why I set it return to main when you hold the back button down.

I realize that I didn't change the mixer skin volume buttons like I did the other screens. I'll fix this soon. Thanks for the find!

**Sal R.** · 09-21-2007, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by crooper

Thanks! I'd like to figure out how to change the song text color on the main menu from light to dark with the touch of a button (to account for light or dark backgrounds). I tried it last night a bit but I don't understand the setvar or switchbutton commands yet. Give me time. :-) My computer science minor pays off in strange ways... lol.

A combination of SETVAR and BYVAR can accomplish what you're trying to do.

i.e.
Button

Code:

B....."BYVAR;daynightfont;SETVAR;daynightfont;1<<SETVAR;daynightfont;0"

Create two labels at the same location w/ the same information w/ different font color definitions.

Code:

L21,437,128,47,29,(day font definition),"BYVAR;daynightfont;TIME<<","LEFT"
L21,437,128,47,29,(night font definition),"BYVAR;daynightfont;<<TIME","LEFT"


.

Whenever you hit the button above, it'll switch the "daynightfont" variable b/w 0 and 1, thus setting one of the two labels above to appear.