Thread: 'Freedom' skin beta progress (Flash Based)

Originally Posted by DmgInc

I saw a couple people ask, but I didn't see it ever get answered. Is it going to be possible to have the day skin look something like CF Day Skin ?

Everyone seems to be making their skins darker and darker, with black backgrounds and black buttons which is all good if I just drove at night 100% of the time, but I can't see any of these skins during the day. I tried using LSX Void, great skin at night...not so good during the day.

Hi m8, I agree with you that some skins are to dark for bright day time use and that a high contrast skin is needed. The highest contrast you can get is black and white, since the main part of this skin is black and silver and you can if needed set your skin colour to white I really dont think a day / night skin is needed. I have been playing with this skin for a couple of weeks in the car and think it works well with the colour set to white during the day and then the font colour to match your car dial colours at night works very well. Saying that if enough people want a day skin after its finished then I might play with afew skins and try and get even higher contrast out of them.. so what I'm saying really is have a play first and see.. you might be surprised :-)

not long now, just got the mixer to do and some stuff to tidy up, unsure if I'm going to include the cdrip as yet as I need to have a play with it first and find out whats best.

Weather is now done and I want to test the TV one as well before its released.. I'm also got a bug in the time change bit so that needs fixing first.

CdR

Originally Posted by Staggie

Cheers Mate,

Will be good to see the blank skin so i can make a start. Atleast this way it will look like the relay controls are suppose to be there. I'll be posting some pics of it when i'm done so if anyone else wants to use it they can go their hardest. I'll also post the PCB design, part listing & PIC code aswell as soon as i am done with it and happy that its working properly. (its sitting on a breadboard atm).

Over in the uk you can get a usb port with various in / out controllers built in and its quite cheap as well, on offer sometimes for around £15.00 which I have been thinking about getting and using it to control afew things round the car..

http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/endecaSea...sp?SKU=HK00851

The K8055 interface board has 5 digital input channels and 8 digital output channels. There are also two analogue inputs and outputs with 8-bit resolution. The number of inputs/outputs can be further expanded by connecting up to 4 more cards to the PC?s USB connectors. All communication routines are contained in a Dynamic Link Library (DLL). You can write custom Windows (98SE, 2000, ME, XP) applications in Delphi, Visual Basic, C++ Builder or any other 32-bit Windows application development tool that supports calls to a DLL.
# 5 digital inputs (0=ground, 1=open) (on board test buttons provided)
# 2 analogue inputs with attenuation and amplification option (internal test +5V provided)
# 8 digital open collector output switches (50V/100mA max.) (on board LED indication)
# 2 analogue outputs
# 0-5V, output resistance 1K5
# PWM 0-100% open collector outputs max. 100mA/40V (on board LED indication)
# General conversion time: 20ms per command
# Power supply through USB: 70mA approx
# Diagnostic software with DLL included
# Dimensions (WxHxD): 145x20x88mm

CdR

ok just finished the screensaver I wasnt happy with the other one. I will be adding this to the Audio, Radio, Main screens for now.. and see what everyone thinks of it..

yeah sure is.. even if it dont work it will be uploaded.. :-)

hmm mixers taking longer than I thought.. although I have finished the tricky one :-)

Hey CDR, just wondering, is everything going to come packaged in the skin? Are we going to have to edit any of the .ini's in order to get like the weather, filemanager and other apps to work with the skin?

Originally Posted by Cheekz185

Hey CDR, just wondering, is everything going to come packaged in the skin? Are we going to have to edit any of the .ini's in order to get like the weather, filemanager and other apps to work with the skin?

Hi m8.. I've just been thinking whats needed whilst I've been out doggie walking.. I do try to keep everything simple and straight forward, but I dont like messing to much with peoples install.. so I would like your views before tomorrows release...

Things that need to be set for things to work...

Picture Path in rr.ini in the main Road Runner folder
This needs to be set so RR knows where to show the pictures from, this is regardless in any skin.. its easy to do just open up rr.in in notepad and add something like - picspath=D:\My Pictures\

Everything will work.. but things that will improve things are setting the time to HH:MM in rrconfig, hidedots=true in rr.ini turning the preamp/eq to ON in winamp and a few more things.. I can do most of these from Freedom on startup but unsure if everyone would want this.. it would however save any problems..

So theres only really 1 line you need to make sure you have in the rr.ini file that points to your picture folder path.. everything else I can take care of if you think I should..

let me know

CdR