Blue Devil Skin RELEASED - Page 27

JohnWPB · 11-05-2006, 04:15 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by SangreDeThor

It worked great. i was talking with John, so he already knew. but for those who needed another voice of confidence it works great.

We are working on a special feature for the weather screen to make it look even better and more functional it is top secret for now, but will soon be released.

Hehehehe you confidence in me is WAY to high, and I will still need your help on this one! I'm not quite sure if this is gonna comes across as well as we thought, but hopes are high at least

So SangreDeThor, how's that "top secret" playlist converter coming along?

wfs1 · 11-05-2006, 07:45 AM

John,
I guess you still want some info back on this skin?
It's working great but it's embedded with a lot of Iguidance support. I'm running MS Streets for now ,so I had to edit out a lot of the Iguidance VB and calls.

The Call out screen for phoco,The call_empty.jpg from below doesn't exist, shouldn't it be call_off.jpg?

MEDIACAR Skin
MEDIACAR "IncomingCall" Skin
call_empty.jpg,call_off.jpg,call_on.jpg,call_down. jpg

I know your working on it but in the GasPriceFinder skin, the infamous mute indicator is missing.

Question,
I noticed when editing these skins, that you use the Load Menu command on the buttons to return to Main Menu. What are the advantages of this as to just saying "Main"??
Not being a a very good programmer, I was wondering if you use the Load skin command from one screen to another and loop through many skins, does RR stack the last ontop and so forth, so you keeping stacking Menu and MAIN would go back to the Main menu from the previous call??

Cali · 11-05-2006, 11:45 PM

wow.. I don't pay attention for a few days and another round of updates! guess I have to drive the CarPC car tomorrow and find out how much better it is... (thanks John)

morris_the_cat · 11-06-2006, 12:18 AM

The installer worked great for me! And thanks for installing the embedded mp3 thing - that is working great too. I'm going to try to edit it to insert road runner earth now & take out sat radio since I don't have it. We'll see how that goes.

JohnWPB · 11-06-2006, 01:00 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by wfs1

John,
I guess you still want some info back on this skin?
It's working great but it's embedded with a lot of Iguidance support. I'm running MS Streets for now ,so I had to edit out a lot of the Iguidance VB and calls.

The Call out screen for phoco,The call_empty.jpg from below doesn't exist, shouldn't it be call_off.jpg?

MEDIACAR Skin
MEDIACAR "IncomingCall" Skin
call_empty.jpg,call_off.jpg,call_on.jpg,call_down. jpg

I know your working on it but in the GasPriceFinder skin, the infamous mute indicator is missing.

Question,
I noticed when editing these skins, that you use the Load Menu command on the buttons to return to Main Menu. What are the advantages of this as to just saying "Main"??
Not being a a very good programmer, I was wondering if you use the Load skin command from one screen to another and loop through many skins, does RR stack the last ontop and so forth, so you keeping stacking Menu and MAIN would go back to the Main menu from the previous call??

Thanks for the catch on the Call Out image, it has been fixed. I also fixed that fracking mute indicator! I hope that is the last one!

No there was no advantage to loading the menu that way. It stems from when I first started this skin, which is my first one, and honestly didn't know any better at the time

In the next release, I have also added animated .gif weather maps! Animated gif's are not supported in Road Runner, thus I used the webrowser plugin to accomplish this. It's not the cleanest way to get something done but it at least works. The screen will look the same as rest of the weather skins. The only glitch I can not seem to overcome, is when you are viewing one of the animated maps, and want to switch to another screen, you will have to tap the other button times. This has been driving me crazy, and I just cant figgure it out. To see the animated Radar and Satellite maps, you will just press and HOLD either of their buttons.

There will also be some MUCH better weather icons to use on the weather screen now! Thanks to SangreDeThor for the help on this one!

Here Is a screen Cap with the new Icons:

You can see Screen Captures of ALL of the Blue Devil Skin on my Flickr page, by clicking the image above.

SangreDeThor · 11-06-2006, 03:03 AM

oh yea! those images are hot!! i can't wait. Tommorow.. or i guess today i will be releasing the alpha version of the top secret program.. all i can say is playlist conversion worries are soon to be over

JohnWPB · 11-06-2006, 04:13 AM

Sounds great! Looking forward to it!

Here is a sneak peek of how the animated weather page will look. The images can be changed to whatever you would like in the weather.ini.

(These are LIVE Images and update every 10 minutes or so)

And the Radar Screen (Also LIVE)