Thread: mediate ice - new free DirectX based front end

Originally Posted by Mañana

just a small request. I found that in the xmls you can set the default resolution of the mediate, how about also a default position? Just offset from the topright most pixel, or something like that =)

Do you mean the window position? Sounds doable, but would help if we understood why you wanted it to do that? A simple implementation would be to remember the last window position then you can drag it where you want. Are you running some kind of multiple screen setup?

Originally Posted by gt__1

i checked out the program quickly

couple things ive notive my first time using it.

1. to setup media and other things should be embedded in the origanl program
when i opened it and played around i couldnt find where to setup my media then i went and found it in my start menu

you should not have to leave the program to do anything.

2. the music jumped straight to vis when i clicked on it. I think that should be an option not how it works. I like to see all my songs while they are playing. I personally never use the vis full screen in my car.

3. the main skin should be very nice people will try your frontend based on the skin alone so the better your skin looks the more people will at least test it out.

some good new is it was very quick and responsive i didnt test it yet with 2000 songs loaded but i can later.

1. At some point we'll include this functionality in the main theme, but its fairly low priority at present since it typically only gets done once then ignored. Ideally, everything should be touch screen friendly but it takes a lot longer to implement compared to using Windows forms.

2. That feature has already been requested and we're working on implementing that for the next release. Soon hopefully!

3. The skin/theme is a work in progress.. really we would love some community input as there is a lot of talent out there, but realistically we would have to release the theme designer first.

Originally Posted by nobb

I think I found a bug. I downloaded the latest version, and then I uninstalled it. Now I cant get rid of the @home media folder in my start menu. When I right click the folder, I only have the option to collapse or expand, no delete. I am running Vista btw.

Also, Ive noticed that after uninstall, the mediate helper application does not get removed from the startup list in msconfig. Just a small annoyance.

Thanks for reporting that. We haven't tested mediate on Vista yet, although there are reports of it working fine from our users (this issue aside). We now have a Vista test machine so will take a look at these points.

Originally Posted by athomemedia

Do you mean the window position? Sounds doable, but would help if we understood why you wanted it to do that? A simple implementation would be to remember the last window position then you can drag it where you want. Are you running some kind of multiple screen setup?

Well, close to. I suppose you know about the problem with getting the integrated graphics on epia mobos to output 800x480 to 7" widescreen displays?
I found a workaround. If I make my mobo output 800x600, I can then (with some bios settings) make the screen think its 800x400 in a way that it cuts the top eight and botton 112 pixels so that it displays 800x480. That gives a clear image with mapped pixels, and it works very well as long as I'm possible to force the frontend to just use those 800x480 pixels.