Lsx Void 3.0 - Page 6

liquid_smoke · 01-01-2007, 10:56 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by tuan_823

When you click on "option" or "opt", it allows you to change certain feature of the audio skin. On page one, it give you the option to switch skin and etc. if you scroll to page 3, there is one button without any label on it, and same for page 5. on page 5, there are several buttons without any label on it. Also, what version of flash should i be installing to get the visualization on the audio to work? I like the equalizer visualization. i hope i made some sense to you.
i guess i should wait for the "how to" guide that's coming soon. thank you for all the work you put into this.

oh i see what you mean, on page 3, that button shouldnt be there, it does do something though. If you click it it should change the vis layout for the main menu. Its the same button thats on the previous screen in the same location.

The page 5 buttons, shouldnt also be there and is a duplicate of page 1, so dont click them cuz anything could happen from restarting RR to clearing your winamp playlist ect. They are same buttons that are on page 1 just no labels.

A little rushing on my part. And these buttons are safe to delete from the .skin files. Im posting a small update in a few that has a new feature, a bug fix and ill include those buttons too.

liquid_smoke · 01-01-2007, 11:02 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by tuan_823

Also, what version of flash should i be installing to get the visualization on the audio to work? I like the equalizer visualization. i hope i made some sense to you.
i guess i should wait for the "how to" guide that's coming soon. thank you for all the work you put into this.

flash has nothing to do with the visuals, but if you want the visuals that i use, there is a link to it in the old thread for this skin, check the history link on the first post. You'll have to do some digging and searching in that thread to find it though, its 1300 post and the link is actually posted a few times in the thread. I would link to it myself but its not on the server where i usually upload stuff.

You will need to use a newer version of winamp, the vis i use wont work with 2.95, i strongly recommend 5.13, the newest versions of winamp have several issues with Road Runner that most may not notice with normal basic skins.

liquid_smoke · 01-01-2007, 11:17 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by m00kfu

ls - i noticed the background image in the screenshots you posted for the main menu is different than the one in the released version... is that intentional?

this is intentional, there are actually a few different background images and menu layout options. Click OPT and on the page 2 there are 10 main menu options.
Some of them only change the size and position of the visuals, others change the background image and layouts.

Feel free to click any of these as they are non destructive, meaning that they wont permanently change anything. If you choose one, when you return to the menu the second time your choice is highlighted. I cant remember what the default choice is right now, but i know the default for the last version of this skin is "BIG VIS"

ckny · 01-02-2007, 12:19 AM

Quick question - I might be missing something easy but for some reason this skin (both day and night) on rr 11/06 shows on only about 75% of the screens height. I have road runner resolution set to default and have edited both skins' general.ini to show original height = 600 and showheight = 600.

FYI - when i tried to change rr resolution to 800x600 in rrconfig.exe it still shows 480 height (and the color degrades to **** to boot)

lsxvoid 1.6 and Road Runner 9/06 release were working fine.

liquid_smoke · 01-02-2007, 01:03 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by ckny

Quick question - I might be missing something easy but for some reason this skin (both day and night) on rr 11/06 shows on only about 75% of the screens height. I have road runner resolution set to default and have edited both skins' general.ini to show original height = 600 and showheight = 600.

FYI - when i tried to change rr resolution to 800x600 in rrconfig.exe it still shows 480 height (and the color degrades to **** to boot)

lsxvoid 1.6 and Road Runner 9/06 release were working fine.

you shouldnt edit the show original height because the original height is not 600.
An easier way to do this would be from inside the skin, click the OPT button. On the bottom right button, has preset res for 800x600 and 800x480. This button when clicked simply copies a correctly preformatted general.ini into the skins folder and reloads the skin. No hand editing required.

EDIT:
note this button is 2 buttons, so for the res you want click on the actual text that says the res you want.

pRoFiT · 01-02-2007, 01:42 AM

Nice LS, This is what, RR with some fancy flash. Looks real nice. I really like the help screen in the demo. Thats awesome! Thats one thing i haven't seen in the frontends yet. It would be nice if all the skins had a intuitive help screen that gave some usefull info on how to use the skin. You know like in windows when you hit F1. Maybe even linked to F1, not that anyone uses keyboards in the car.

If this runs good on my system i may switch from the alpine skin to this.

I only use the alpine skin to match my stereo anyways.

p.s. you PM box is full!!!!!!

ckny · 01-02-2007, 01:45 AM

cool, thanks LS - I'll give it a shot tomorrow using the skin's option

liquid_smoke · 01-02-2007, 02:28 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by pRoFiT

Nice LS, This is what, RR with some fancy flash. Looks real nice. I really like the help screen in the demo. Thats awesome! Thats one thing i haven't seen in the frontends yet. It would be nice if all the skins had a intuitive help screen that gave some usefull info on how to use the skin. You know like in windows when you hit F1. Maybe even linked to F1, not that anyone uses keyboards in the car.

If this runs good on my system i may switch from the alpine skin to this.

I only use the alpine skin to match my stereo anyways.

p.s. you PM box is full!!!!!!

very minimal flash actually. I dont consider it a flash skin at all. There are some flash elements, like the (optional) logo clocks and (optional) flash compass but i think thats about it. So none of the performance issues you get with all flash skins.

PM is a little less empty now.

djmickyg · 01-02-2007, 03:35 AM

more on the italics issue.. i found something that works.

i went into my font folder to delete the LSXVOID skin so see what happens when i open RR without this font and the icons still showed in italics.
so i went back into the folder and opened the font named Arial and when it opened it was titled LSXVOID and had all ur symbols in it.

soo.. I deleted this font also and re copied the LSXVOID named font u put up a few post ago, back into the folder and opened RR again and... everything works nice!

could ur installed be installing the font with the wrong file name..?
also i don't remember having a warning message saying i will overwrite a file when i copied ur fix font into the font folder which suggests to me i didn't even have it in the first place..

liquid_smoke · 01-02-2007, 04:43 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by djmickyg

more on the italics issue.. i found something that works.

i went into my font folder to delete the LSXVOID skin so see what happens when i open RR without this font and the icons still showed in italics.
so i went back into the folder and opened the font named Arial and when it opened it was titled LSXVOID and had all ur symbols in it.

soo.. I deleted this font also and re copied the LSXVOID named font u put up a few post ago, back into the folder and opened RR again and... everything works nice!

could ur installed be installing the font with the wrong file name..?
also i don't remember having a warning message saying i will overwrite a file when i copied ur fix font into the font folder which suggests to me i didn't even have it in the first place..

humm, thats interesting the installer could very well be screwing the two files up and thinking they are the same, even though they are named differently but that would expain why the arial font has lsxvoid as an internal name and the lsxvoid font has arial as an internal name.
I just checked on one of my test boxes and sure enough the lsxvoid font was not located in the font dir and when i opend the arial font it had all my symbols.
Ive confirmed that the new font does fix the issue, but it looks like the arial font needs to be restored as well and not deleted.

Ill update the main installer tomorrow and also create a small installer that deals specificly with the font issue as well as a zip file with an update to the skin that add a new feature and a few bug fixes. Ill prob put the fonts up too in a zip file for those who want to manually fix the fonts.

Thanks for the extra testing on this.

liquid_smoke · 01-02-2007, 05:05 AM

ok, looking at it again. The issue was not with the installer, it did what it was supposed to do. The issue was with the lsxvoid.ttf font having an internal name of arial, this was an oversight of the font tool i used to create the font that used arial as a template.

I noticed when i looked on my test machine again, that the font was indeed installed on the machine (see screenshot) but the internal name of the font was arial, but if you look at the file name you see it is lsxvoid and even the contents of the font are correct.

What happens when you install 2 fonts that have the same internal name, but yet different file names is it seems windows automaticly disables one of the fonts, the same as it wont let 2 files with the same name co exist in the same folder.
So as soon as you delete the font highlighted in the screenshot, paying close attention to the file name and not the Font name windows automaticly restores the proper arial font. Copy over the new font posted on the first post and everything should be the way it was intended to be.

djmickyg · 01-02-2007, 06:15 AM

yes yes i see..

the last font.zip you put up works and has a Font name of LSXVOID.. so this is good..

Does it take a Pc restart to load the new fonts?..
This issue didn't appear at first, but after I had restarted the PC..

well it looks like this issue has been solved.. now I'm happy

djmickyg · 01-02-2007, 07:28 AM

something else i noticed..
the install deleted all the info from the rr.ini file
and put the custom LSX info into. but
i think it has put it in 2 times.. there was 2 lots of the same info and only one set semeed to change with the changed made in the skin?
i have deleted one whole set of information and the skin still works fine

yrean · 01-02-2007, 08:32 AM

edited beacuase of stupidity.

I wasnt on last page of post and the question was already answered :P

Miles · 01-02-2007, 12:03 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by liquid_smoke

this is supposed to run on ONSONGSTART, other wise ther is no way to know if the song you are listening to is rated or not, if you noticed when you rate a song, the 5 stars on the main menu and audio player will update to show the songs rate status. Also, any autoIT script that is running, if you click on its taskbar icon it will pause the script, and unless you unpause the script it will stay loaded waiting to be unpaused so it can continue its job and exit. So unless its not exiting i wouldnt screw with it.

also, if there is a problem with the ratings, check the ratings plugin thread in the RR Plugin section, this is where it comes from. My skin has some specific settings for the plugin, but nothing that alters the source of the plugin or how it functions.

One thing you may want to make sure you have setup in RRConig.exe /rr.ini is your playlist path and to make sure its located INSIDE of your Music path.

So if your music lib is stored in C:\MyMUSIC
your playlists should be stored in C:\MyMUSIC\PLAYLIST

Thanks LS - what worked for me was re-installing RR to the default path of C:\Program Files\Road Runner, re-installing your skin in that DIR and ensuring AutoIT was up to date.

Works great! Cheers!

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