Blue Devil Skin RELEASED - Page 58

JohnWPB · 12-15-2006, 05:02 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by afterdigital

that color is spanking if i do say so!!!!!!

Well How About this?

I just spent the past 3 hours working in Flash... Did I mention that I HATE flash!!!!! I wanted to make the gauges transparent as well, so they would also take on the color of the skin. This way the gauges do not have to be altered in any way to "fit into the skin".

Here is a Red Version as well. Again, ALL that is changing here is the Background color.

DeadlyAP1 · 12-15-2006, 05:07 PM

Oh that digital copper is outstanding. I hope that gets released!

jeffreyd_tx · 12-15-2006, 09:26 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by afterdigital

that color is spanking if i do say so!!!!!!

I am using the exact base color in my car with what I think is the exact gradient layer effect and I am not diggin it. It looks so much different on my laptop than on my 7" lilliput. hmm. I am tending towards the coper in my car but I think it needs to be a few shades brighter.

jeffreyd_tx · 12-15-2006, 09:27 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by JohnWPB

Did I mention that I HATE flash!!!!!

Is this why you haven't answer my PM regarding the flash compass?

duglas · 12-15-2006, 09:49 PM

[QUOTE=JohnWPB;979198]Make sure under GPS Window name you have: "iGuidance" (Without the quotes). Multiple instances of a program are usually related to that setting.

HOLLLLLLYYY CRAP!!!!

that fixed it.. I did not know that field was for anything other than my info, I had IGUID there... I changed it to iGuidance and it is working perfectly..

thanks

jmciver · 12-15-2006, 09:57 PM

I noticed that your LAT/LON display does not diplay N/S for Lattitude or E/W for Longitude. I don't know how easy it would be to do this, but for Lat, if the number is positive, it is North, negative it is South. For longitude, positive is East and negative is West. I am the Navigator on a 688 class submarine so I notice things like that.....

SangreDeThor · 12-15-2006, 10:34 PM

well its good that you did, cuz we sure wouldnt have

Lucky13ESP · 12-15-2006, 11:00 PM

I searched the thread and I didn't see any mention of this. On the player screen, the "Restart Song" button appears to be linked to loop play. Not a big deal but I thought you might like to know.

JohnWPB · 12-16-2006, 07:41 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by jeffreyd_tx

I am using the exact base color in my car with what I think is the exact gradient layer effect and I am not diggin it. It looks so much different on my laptop than on my 7" lilliput. hmm. I am tending towards the coper in my car but I think it needs to be a few shades brighter.

Is this why you haven't answer my PM regarding the flash compass?

Thats the great thing about the transparency, you can cahnge the color/shade to anything. Its also possible to alter the layer properties on the buttons and change theirtransparency, bevel ect, and just apply it to the other buttons in batch.

Dude! I completely got side tracked and forgot, PM answered.

Quote: Originally Posted by duglas

HOLLLLLLYYY CRAP!!!!

that fixed it.. I did not know that field was for anything other than my info, I had IGUID there... I changed it to iGuidance and it is working perfectly..

thanks

Hehehe

I had a feeling thats what it was. That setting tells RR what window to look for and to "snag" to embed it. It also is used by RR to "know" if the program is running already by looking to see if that window/program exists before it runs it.

Quote: Originally Posted by jmciver

I noticed that your LAT/LON display does not diplay N/S for Lattitude or E/W for Longitude. I don't know how easy it would be to do this, but for Lat, if the number is positive, it is North, negative it is South. For longitude, positive is East and negative is West. I am the Navigator on a 688 class submarine so I notice things like that.....

I am just using the standard RR labels, and do not know of a way right now to display the N/S. I could easily do this in VB:

If left(GPSLat,1) = "-" then MyLat = "South" else MyLat = "North"

It could be done with an external plugin, but that would just be more overhead. I will have a look at RR's source code, it MAY be easy to add that in there.

Personally I have always wanted to make an Artificial Horizon indicator as well as turn and bank indicator, being a pilot myself. It would mimic the readings by how fast the degrees in the compass are changing, or how fast the altitude was changing, say when going up a hill ect. I just wish I knew enough about flash to pull it off!

Quote: Originally Posted by Lucky13ESP

I searched the thread and I didn't see any mention of this. On the player screen, the "Restart Song" button appears to be linked to loop play. Not a big deal but I thought you might like to know.

Hmmm I will look into it and see whats up. Thanks for letting me know.

EDIT: Sure enough, I had the wrong code on the button. All fixed, and will be in the next release.

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jmciver · 12-16-2006, 10:59 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by JohnWPB

I am just using the standard RR labels, and do not know of a way right now to display the N/S. I could easily do this in VB:

If left(GPSLat,1) = "-" then MyLat = "South" else MyLat = "North"

It could be done with an external plugin, but that would just be more overhead. I will have a look at RR's source code, it MAY be easy to add that in there.

Personally I have always wanted to make an Artificial Horizon indicator as well as turn and bank indicator, being a pilot myself. It would mimic the readings by how fast the degrees in the compass are changing, or how fast the altitude was changing, say when going up a hill ect. I just wish I knew enough about flash to pull it off!

If you ever get to this, I would recommend just using the first letter (i.e. "N" instead of "North") so it doesn't take too much space on the skin, etc. This is just one of those "finishing touches" type of tweeks for a skin that is already one of the best out there now IMO. Keep up the good work!!

On another note, I finally got the CPU usage under control to the point where I can actually enjoy this skin while driving the car. I may be able to keep the clock after all. Now if I can just get the music and CD Rip to work properly (I still haven't figured out how to play CDs or music files from inside RR yet but I am getting there

)

A question on the DVD player, will your skin embedd PowerDVD or only the internal DVD player that comes with RR? The internal DVD player does not play smoothly, PowerDVD plays perfectly (are there some tweeks that I am missing?)

JohnWPB · 12-16-2006, 04:59 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by jmciver

If you ever get to this, I would recommend just using the first letter (i.e. "N" instead of "North") so it doesn't take too much space on the skin, etc. This is just one of those "finishing touches" type of tweeks for a skin that is already one of the best out there now IMO. Keep up the good work!!

On another note, I finally got the CPU usage under control to the point where I can actually enjoy this skin while driving the car. I may be able to keep the clock after all. Now if I can just get the music and CD Rip to work properly (I still haven't figured out how to play CDs or music files from inside RR yet but I am getting there

)

A question on the DVD player, will your skin embedd PowerDVD or only the internal DVD player that comes with RR? The internal DVD player does not play smoothly, PowerDVD plays perfectly (are there some tweeks that I am missing?)

Yea, I had intended to do that, just replace the "N" or "S" at the beginning/end of the coordinates. I looked at the RR code, and it is just a bit above my head. I am gonna contact someone that I know is a lot more familiar with the RR code, no guarantees, but it is a good idea and as you mentioned, finishing touch. This may not even be possible, as the Lat & Lon are "Live" and when I change it in the RR code, it is doing it just once at initialization. This may be something in the OCX, or something directly from the virtual serial port that is being read from the raw data. If this is the case, then it would be a lot of CPU overhead to check that on EVERY single change of Lat & Lon.

As for the CD, Thats is actually an EASY one, Check out THIS THREAD and follow the instructions in post #11, and read a few more posts down from there for trouble shooting purposes ect.

As for the DVD, I personally have never used it

. I have encoded a lot of my DVD's into XVid format and have em strored on the hard drive for playback. Maybe someone that is using PowerDVD can chime in with some help here.

kbreeden · 12-16-2006, 05:47 PM

Quote:

As for the DVD, I personally have never used it . I have encoded a lot of my DVD's into XVid format and have em strored on the hard drive for playback.

Yeah, that's definitely the way to go - no more lugging DVDs around or having to switch them out when you want to play a new movie. It takes a while to do the encoding, but once done it really is nice. Oh, and you need to make sure you have a big hard drive.

JohnWPB · 12-16-2006, 08:12 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by kbreeden

Yeah, that's definitely the way to go - no more lugging DVDs around or having to switch them out when you want to play a new movie. It takes a while to do the encoding, but once done it really is nice. Oh, and you need to make sure you have a big hard drive.

I do have a pretty big HD in the CarPC, a 300 Gigger. BUT When you encode the movies in in Xvid, I can fit around 300 movies on the drive (With room left for he OS software, my 17,000 MP3's ect ect) The reason being is I convert the movies 320 x 240 and it works out to around 600-700 Megs per movie. This would not work for a normal monitor and look very good, but on a 7" touch screen they look perfect. In fact they don't look THAT bad on my 26" monitor on the desktop, some artifacts and such, but its not that bad considering the small size of the file.

On another note, the skin is getting pretty close! I just have the Phoco and Map Point skins to do, around 15 skins just for those 2 Apps! The rest are done! I will be releasing a Blue one that is similar to the Blue Devil skin to start, followed by the "Digital Copper" that everyone seems to like so much

From there Prob a red and a black version.

I have done the best that I can to keep all the buttons in the same location on almost all of the screens. There are only a few exceptions when other buttons need to replace the standard buttons at the bottom. Even then if there is a volume control on that skin, it will be in the same place as all the other skins.

This new skin is going to replace the Blue Devil skin. The new skin will have ALL of the functionality and then some. There are a lot of updates and the like that have been done along the way creating the new skin.

I am trying to figure the best way to package it. I was thinking on having the skin file's and support files one download, and another download for the color of choice with just the images. I have also thought to release the blue one as a complete package, with the option to download additional "image packs". Still trying to figure the best way to do it

I say it should only be another week or so till the first color is released. During the process of creating the new images, quite a few buttons have been moved, and so I have to go through ALL of the skin files and make sure everything is in the right place. I learned this the hard way today! I tested the menu skin, and hit the exit button and then the "Exit" button to close Road Runner. Well I had moved the buttons around a bit. When I hit exit, it actually shut down my computer! I lost 2 skin images with some changes to them that I had open, and was in the process of editing

lifestyle · 12-16-2006, 08:22 PM

Man, great news, I can't wait to use it, i'm almost done with my pc, when do you plan to release it? should i wait for the new one? if it's gonna take longer i think i'm gonna go with the old one, anyway awesome work!! BRAVO!

jmciver · 12-16-2006, 10:12 PM

Today I tried using the OSK to enter a website address when in IE but it did not work. All it did was type the first letter. But when I use the OSK in a text field in a website, the text shows up as expected. Is there some setting I am missing?

Oh and BTW, go take a look ate the finished projects section. I just posted something you may recognize

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