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Old 11-30-2006, 04:34 PM   #721
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I love Blue Devil. Prior to that Ive tried a few skins and none really stuck with me. I was kindof digging CFX but its outdated now and doesn't work with IGuidance 3 Without modification. It's all TOO big. I've been using Blue Devil since I found it and I can say I love it. But it needs some stuff to make it more usable. I've been busy modding it. Mostly adding buttons, shifting some around. Trying to make things more accessable to me. Adding the little touches that would drive me nuts if I didnt have it. All the while keeping the skin looking like Blue Devil.

I dont know if anyone else would want what I did, but if I have your permission I'll post pics of the mod (Only a few so far, All pertain to the Audio skins and GPS skins. No radio/video)

And if there is an interest I can easily release it as well.
Right now I'm calling it Blue Devil : ClutterMod
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Old 11-30-2006, 05:13 PM   #723
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Ok Guys, I think it's time for me to start on a new version of this skin.

So no new features/improvements for Blue Devil?
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Quote: Originally Posted by JohnWPB View Post
Ok, I have been working on adding a nicer visualization to the skin. I found a nice spectrum analyzer, and want to know what you guys think. It is semi transparent, and you can see the album art underneath it.

It's a few steps to configure, but would be covered in detail in the help file. SangreDeThor was nice enough to beta test it for me, and he got it working. I also want to thank Liquid Smoke for helping me out with this! We were IM'ing back and forth for a few hours working on issues with his skin and mine. Without his help this would not have come to be.

Let me know if this is something that I should include in the skin or not.

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Im really liking this. but is there any way to keep the bars that are displayed here perminant. I'm really not liking the rest of the visuilazation screens. Other than that this skin and all of its features rock.

**EDIT: did figure this out. you need to uncheck the randomize when setting up**

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I have a suggestion for the progress bar in the pic above...

Could you make the slider bigger and have it display the current play time inside of it as it moves across the bar? Then put the total track time to the far right of the bar.
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Q&A time.....

Quote: Originally Posted by kbreeden View Post
So no new features/improvements for Blue Devil?

Yes, there absolutely will be! I will keep modding and altering this to get it as good as possible, with all the features that I can add to it. The code from Blue Devil will just be copied over to the new skin is all. I am not about to start from scratch, when this one has been tried, tested, suggestions added and all that!


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Im really liking this. but is there any way to keep the bars that are displayed here perminant. I'm really not liking the rest of the visuilazation screens. Other than that this skin and all of its features rock.

Um, I am not sure what you mean. It is "Permanent" until you go and change the visualization out yourself again.


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I have a suggestion for the progress bar in the pic above...

Could you make the slider bigger and have it display the current play time inside of it as it moves across the bar? Then put the total track time to the far right of the bar.

Yea, I think I can add that in. The current time will not move, and be centered. I originally wanted the time to move along with the scroll bar, but I found NO way even remotely possible to do this right now.
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Track TIme and custom Mods

Ok, the Track time was actually an easy mod I LIKE it when that happens!!!





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But it needs some stuff to make it more usable. I've been busy modding it. Mostly adding buttons, shifting some around. Trying to make things more accessable to me. Adding the little touches that would drive me nuts if I didnt have it. All the while keeping the skin looking like Blue Devil.

I dont know if anyone else would want what I did, but if I have your permission I'll post pics of the mod

Absolutely! I would love to see the mod's made, and if others find some of them useful, I will try to put them into the skin. The ONLY think I cam concerned about is the :Cluttered" part I still want to keep the buttons as touchscreen friendly as possible, and not too small.
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Yes, there absolutely will be! I will keep modding and altering this to get it as good as possible, with all the features that I can add to it.

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audio selection

I know you said this was pretty mutch dune and you were moving on. But is it at all possible to put a audio selector in. Meaning if i have audio on a usb or cd drive i can select such?
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I know you said this was pretty mutch dune and you were moving on.

Apparently you didn't read post 726.
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I know you said this was pretty mutch dune and you were moving on. But is it at all possible to put a audio selector in. Meaning if i have audio on a usb or cd drive i can select such?


Wow, so many people got the wrong idea.

I AM NOT ABANDONING THE BLUE DEVIL SKIN

I am not sure what you mean by "audio selector" though, If you can be a little more specific in exactly what you mean I can try to work on it.
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YAY !!! I got the flash clock working by decreasing the hardware acceleration of my video card and now the CPU usage while running mp3 (on the main menu window) is only 30-35% instead of 100%

Whoever posted the tip originally......THANK ALOT !!!
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Quote: Originally Posted by JohnWPB View Post
Wow, so many people got the wrong idea.

I AM NOT ABANDONING THE BLUE DEVIL SKIN

I am not sure what you mean by "audio selector" though, If you can be a little more specific in exactly what you mean I can try to work on it.

Some times i have music that is either on a CD/DVD or USB stick that i would like to play. It would be nice if there was a way to select where your audio source would be. I think skin "ASTRO" has some of what i'm speaking of.
By the way what is the chances for some PSD files sometime. Other than that you rock Keep up the good work looking forward to future releases and or suprises.
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YAY !!! I got the flash clock working by decreasing the hardware acceleration of my video card and now the CPU usage while running mp3 (on the main menu window) is only 30-35% instead of 100%

Whoever posted the tip originally......THANK ALOT !!!

That seems about right. what are your Specs?
I have P3 900mhz, 256 ram, and it takes 35% for the main menu with the new flash. so it sounds right to me.
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Well Time for Pics Of Cluttermod, I'll Explain in detail everything done So far.


The Main key changes are
1: Global Volume controls located in the same place across all screens
2: Global menu bar up top with all the same information across all screens, This includes track time, Bitrate, CPU Usage, and so on.
3: Global TIME Clock. This is the main lacking thing that drove me nuts in Blue Devil. My car already has a Analog clock in the dash(Chrysler 300M) I need a good easy to read digital clock for quick glances.
4: Shift of all controls to left justified. I drive a left hand drive car like most people in the Americas, Because of this the left side is slightly more accessable than the right side of the screen. It's not that much of a deal but every little bit makes it more usable for me.
5: Removal of Duplicate Buttons. IE Why have a button for the browser, when you're in the browser menu already. Sure it keeps the bottom bar looking the same throughout the menu, but its a waste of space to me.

Now For the most part I spend most of my time in the Full Audio player and GPS/Audio Menu. Because of this these are where all the main changes are, I have gone around updating a few other skins(Iguidance full, gps stats) to have the same top bar information.

Onto the pics


1: Here you see the main full Player. I've done several things
2: I shifted the top bars track info text above to the very top and added more info to the scrolling field
3: Added a Clock and date to the upper right.
4: Lowered the Shuffle/Repeat Indacators and added more. These were copied from CFX Skin, I will be changing them as I see fit. Added online indicator.
5: Shifted all the buttons to the left hand side
6: reduced the Album Art page. Many people probably wont like this as its more widescreen now. But I really dont care about large album art much. I rather have more information on the screen at once. And more control.
7: Added more buttons and controls, As well as a mini playlist. That way I know whats coming up next or what has already played. Its small but allows you to quickly see whats coming up and delete a song or jump to a song if you want to without swapping screens.
8: Changed the bottom bar completely, Global Volume Control seen here, Less buttons
9: Left a blank space on the lower right for future use. I plan on having my Car's Voltage here, or Speed, Or something, Maybe a flyout menu?


Here you see the Browser page. Not much done here. Same style Bar up top
and at the bottom, I moved added player controls and shortened the album art again(Ran out of room)


Same tweaks as the browser



Alot of changes here, Although I did like the position of the originals GPS Window I decided to go ahead and align the buttons to the left.

1: Instead of Album Art I decided to add some usefull buttons and the playlist track info, I can replace this with album art easily enough, Again it would be widescreen

Those are my main changes. I've cluttered things up a bit. But its now more livable for me. If people want it I can release it. Along with PSD's, Still a work in progress.
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