Experimental skin

**guino** · 05-27-2005, 10:40 PM

they have to flash if they're INSIDE a button.. or the button image will overwrite it.

**Arathranar** · 05-27-2005, 11:04 PM

That could be fixed by drawing them last, couldn't it?

**guino** · 05-27-2005, 11:48 PM

no, because everytime you move the mouse in/out of a button it redraws it over the indicator.. You'd have to make a function check ALL indicators in the skin to check if one of them is within the area being updated and if so, redraw the indicator.. I didn't do it because it would add a lot of code for something so insignificant (considering blinking indicators do work).

**Arathranar** · 05-29-2005, 10:41 PM

I have generic timers partially working in RR. I just need a way to determine when a form is reshown in order to reset their timed out state.

Guino - any hints on how I detect that?

An example skin line is:
TIMER01,5,"LOAD;menu.skin"

**guino** · 05-29-2005, 11:23 PM

the showform method is called whenever a form is called, but you'll have to monitor (somehow) if you hide/show the form afterwards..

**Arathranar** · 05-29-2005, 11:43 PM

I think I was seeing cases where Frm.Visible was being set to True but ShowForm was not being called. I'm not sure what scenario I was testing when I saw that since ShowForm seems to being hit in all the cases I currently care about.

**guino** · 05-29-2005, 11:47 PM

The only place I do that is when autohiding the controls for video/dvd/mappoint.
Other than that, all forms (exept frmMPT and frmMP) are loaded with the LOAD command through the skins which calls showform.

**CdRsKuLL** · 05-30-2005, 02:39 AM

You know.. I remember seeing that skin somewhere before... O yeah I remember.. its mine ;-)

**Arathranar** · 05-30-2005, 08:21 AM

Yep. I'm using it as a temporary background so my experimental layout doesn't look completely ugly as I try it out in the car.

I've been meaning to ask you what the tiled background image is since I've been staring at it a lot recently and keep wondering.

**Arathranar** · 05-30-2005, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by Arathranar

I think I was seeing cases where Frm.Visible was being set to True but ShowForm was not being called. I'm not sure what scenario I was testing when I saw that since ShowForm seems to being hit in all the cases I currently care about.

I realized that the case I was struggling with earlier was the directory list user control - not the skin form itself. There isn't an event / function that always gets called whenever the DL usercontrol is re-shown. I worked around that one by doing the fix up I needed to do after forcing a SELECT command (needed to change the current path after the command executed) by using a timer.